Hi everyone, I hope everyone is doing very well.I have been using openwrt firmware on my netgear wax202 router for over 2 years now. This is a great experience. This community is also very nice. Everyone is very helpful.
Recently, I have installed openwrt 24.10.1 sysupgrade . Everything is working fine. But as soon as I bought the router, I installed the openwrt firmware and started using it. So I haven't used the original firmware of this router. Now I am interested in gaining a new experience with the original firmware of this router and learning about it. But I don't know how to easily and safely go back to stock firmware. If any expert brother can help me with this, I will be very grateful.
nmrpflash is the perfect tool for returning to Netgear firmware 
You may also try TFTP
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thank you bro for your info. i tried both but unfortunately those aren't working for me .is there anything else that i can try?
Describe the issues you encountered?
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Really? Bet you are disappointed and return to OpenWRT...
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Did you install npcap ? Disable the firewall ? You may also have to try different timings between launching the prog, and powering on the device. Each device doesn't react the same way that another.
yes bro..i installed npcap, disabled firewall. but i got this- "No response after 60 seconds. Bailing out.'' @badulesia @frollic
try vanilla TFTP ?
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maybe not tried it yet..can you give me instruction how to do it ?
It's a matter of timing. Launch program, try different timings before powering on. Try the opposite : power on, try different timings before launching. Each devices has its own timing regarding how it boots, and when the nrmp protocol is launched.
Keep this chat straight. I'm not your "bro", especially as I'm a woman.
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Read first anwser, there is a link.
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I've read and tried that too already. I followed everything step by step but when i clicked on the “put ” it didn't upload fw to the router. After few minutes Router booted with openwrt firmware .
Definitely too long.
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Seems you should use mtd write instead, from within Openwrt - Struggling reverting to stock firmware on WAX202 - #13 by rpwong.
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@Shohan5343 let me know if it worked, and I'll update the wiki page.
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Ok..i will try when I'm free and i will let you know.
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I've tried and in step 3 got this, "ash: /usr/libexec/sftp-server: not found". what to do now ?
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C:\Windows\System32>cd "C:\Users\shoha\OneDrive\Desktop"
C:\Users\shoha\OneDrive\Desktop>scp wax202.img root@192.168.1.1:/tmp
The authenticity of host '192.168.1.1 (192.168.1.1)' can't be established.
ED25519 key fingerprint is SHA256:RvfVbiCgxlWznQKkoqTNxfsDCLavP32P7aYYutzlnXs.
This key is not known by any other names.
Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no/[fingerprint])?
Warning: Permanently added '192.168.1.1' (ED25519) to the list of known hosts.
ash: /usr/libexec/sftp-server: not found
scp: Connection closed
C:\Users\shoha\OneDrive\Desktop>
Use the -O option in scp.
Like this?
scp -O wax202.img root@192.168.1.1:/tmp
Would be faster to test, than to ask 
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