I need TP-Link RE450v1 or RE355 v1 full dump

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After trying to repartition to extend the storage of my RE355, I ended up on hardbrick, losing uboot and other partitions, when that didn't have SPI programmer or backups etc (WRONG!!).
Months later I got buy an SPI programmer and tried to revive it.

The RE450v1 and RE355v1 boards are exactly the same; the only difference is the MIMO configuration (AC1200 and AC1750), That's why either of the 2 models will work for me, it has to be v1, otherwise v2 won't work because of the RAM configurations.

I got a dump of a 450v2 from my friend, this RE450v2 dump works great on the RE355v1, the only problem is the limited RAM of 64MB of the original 128MB that comes with the RE355v1 or RE450v1

U-Boot 1.1.4 (Jan 11 2017 - 18:09:36)

ap135 - Scorpion 1.0

DRAM:  64 MB
Top of RAM usable for U-Boot at: 84000000
Reserving 133k for U-Boot at: 83fdc000
Reserving 192k for malloc() at: 83fac000
Reserving 44 Bytes for Board Info at: 83fabfd4
Reserving 36 Bytes for Global Data at: 83fabfb0
Reserving 128k for boot params() at: 83f8bfb0
Stack Pointer at: 83f8bf98
Now running in RAM - U-Boot at: 83fdc000
Flash Manuf Id 0xef, DeviceId0 0x40, DeviceId1 0x17
flash size 16MB, sector count = 256
Flash: 16 MB
Using default environment

In:    serial
Out:   serial
Err:   serial
Net:   ath_gmac_enet_initialize...
athrs_sgmii_res_cal: cal value = 0x1
No valid address in Flash. Using fixed address
Scorpion  ----> AR8033 PHY *
AR8033 PHY init
eth0: 00:03:7f:09:0b:ad
eth0 up
eth0
Setting 0x18116290 to 0x50a0214f

I then extracted the stock u-boot binary, kernel and squasfs from the tp-link source code.

https://static.tp-link.com/resources/gpl/RE355EU_gpl_code.tar.bz2

This uboot does boot and detect the original 128MB of RAM, but it has a problem with GMAC that doesn't work, there is a link but no activity only wifi works.

(Only in Openwrt images, in stock it works very well)

U-Boot 1.1.4 (Dec  7 2015 - 09:27:09)

ap135 - Scorpion 1.0

DRAM:  128 MB
Top of RAM usable for U-Boot at: 88000000
Reserving 128k for U-Boot at: 87fdc000
Reserving 192k for malloc() at: 87fac000
Reserving 44 Bytes for Board Info at: 87fabfd4
Reserving 36 Bytes for Global Data at: 87fabfb0
Reserving 128k for boot params() at: 87f8bfb0
Stack Pointer at: 87f8bf98
Now running in RAM - U-Boot at: 87fdc000
Flash Manuf Id 0xef, DeviceId0 0x40, DeviceId1 0x17
flash size 8MB, sector count = 128
Flash:  8 MB
Using default environment

In:    serial
Out:   serial
Err:   serial
Net:   ath_gmac_enet_initialize...
athrs_sgmii_res_cal: cal value = 0x1
No valid address in Flash. Using fixed address
eth0: 00:03:7f:09:0b:ad
eth0 up
eth0
Autobooting in 1 seconds
## Booting image at 9f020000 ..

Could someone who has this model send me the full dump or uboot for the 128MB model?
I also need ART, since the one I have is for RE450, not RE355 (although it does not affect anything)

2

You will have to locate ART in your backups.
I fail to see how your request relates to OpenWrt.

3

I don't have backups, that was my main problem.

4

Those are set in the factory based on component batch testing. No way for us to know what was there. You ca try tplink forums/channels if they can recover the flash block based on serial no + mac + purchase receipts.

5

Sorry but ART is not my only problem, I also have a bad uboot.

I was able to restore the MAC and SN by editing the partition at the corresponding offset; I'm not that interested in ART.

My main problem is the original Uboot of 128MB RAM, not so much ART.

OK, I'll try searching on TP-Link forums. I see that they also talk about advanced firmware not limited to official ones.

Another option was to buy second-hand to clone and then resell, but the main problem is that most are RE450V2 and the RE355v1 are almost no longer available.

6

I have some body parts to play, i'll check later.