So, yesterday I broke my Archer A7 by flashing ddwrt from flashing it from flash new firmware section of Openwrt, but I forgot that I'm on wifi, I got an error but proceed and after that the router stopped working. When I'm powering it on after blinking all the leds and then just showing power and wps led only. I tried to revert back to stock via tftpd64 but after downloading the firmware I'm not getting successful output.
here are my tftp log
Connection received from 192.168.0.86 on port 2448 [19/01 08:20:18.068]
Read request for file <ArcherC7v5_tp_recovery.bin>. Mode octet [19/01 08:20:18.068]
OACK: <timeout=5,blksize=1468,> [19/01 08:20:18.143]
Using local port 51195 [19/01 08:20:18.143]
TIMEOUT waiting for Ack block #754 [19/01 08:20:43.877]
Can anyone please spare some time to help me to get of this situation?
Thanks in advance
Usually the errors at flashing GUI are a bad thing, as you are warned that image is incompatible or something
Have you flashed ddwrt or OpenWrt? Tried flashing a ddwrt image from a running OpenWrt? That might not be possible, as their image structure is likely different than the OpenWrt sysupgrade routine expects, so forcing the flash despite error/warning can lead unto major trouble.
The positive thing here is that the TFTP recovery seems to respond and seems to ask for a sensible filename.
Are you sure that you have named the file right?
Make sure that your PC firewall or similar is nor blocking traffic. You might need to allow 192.168.0.68.
Thanks for replying, I was already able to flash via TFTP, and now on ddwrt and will go back to openwrt again.
Actually there was a problem when I was trying to flash the router via tftp64 but flashing via tftp32 solved the problem.
Followed this openwrt post and was able to know that tftp64 flashing do have an issues for Archer A7 or Archer C7 series router https://forum.openwrt.org/t/archer-a7-v5-not-able-to-revert-to-factory-firmware-using-tftp/127750
Hi @hnyman I've stuck in another problem again as I was trying to go back to stock but going back stock always fails and device is going back to OpenWrt, so I flashed ddwrt and from there stock but at this process I got a Tp-Link login like page which asking me to upgrade the firmware. Now when I'm using stock firmware after 40% of uploading it rejecting by saying that firmware not compatible but if I try to give OpenWrt or ddwrt firmware from this page it is successfully upgrading to them
can you please take some time to explain me what is going on?
One more thing I've seen that Openwrt or ddwrt is flashable from any lan port but this tplink upgrade page appearing if I try to flash original firmware from port 4, I've no idea what kind of weird thing is going on. I've seen every youtube videos they just rename the firmware and just flash via tftp to get back to stock, but not happening in my case
