After trying OpenWRT on my HooToo HT-TM01 and realizing that it's definitely not something I'd want on a device like this I now want to go back to the stock firmware again. However there are literally 0 entries anywhere on this and the guy who ported OpenWRT over to the HT-TM01 simply closed the issue on GitHub with no further comments...
Is there anyone out there with knowledge on how to go back to stock again on that thing? Would be awesome, thanks in advance!
Well, their project is still up but the problem is that it overwrote uboot and I don't have a dump of the original firmware the device came with nor has anyone else provided someone as it seems
I saw that the guy who wrote the installer did make a backup when flashing the firmware on the device but that USB Stick is definitely long gone on my end... I wonder if I can flash someone elses backup onto mine and if it'd work then.
I really don't know, all I did was to use the OpenWRT script/upgrade package the guy provides which then did its own magic... I have no idea what partition it changes or what exactly it does at all.
The TM02 with the factory software doesn't have enough RAM to untar/ungzip and assemble the complete TM02 flash MTD image for the upgrade so it requires a USB flash stick to use as workspace. So does the new loader. Having a clean USB flash stick plugged in is required.
The first thing the loader does is shutdown various services that might interfere with the flashing process and perhaps free up some RAM. Then it creates a complete backup of the factory flash MTD device written to your USB flash stick. It copys the entire TM02 MTD device as one file as well as each partition seperately to seperate files. The files are named appropriately and will be under the "HT_FLASH" directory on the stick. You can use this to revert back to factory if you wish. I'll writeup some instructions later for this.
Well, that was years ago when I flashed OpenWRT, that stick even if I still have it has most likely been overwritten and formatted already... Oh well, guess it's game over for me then.