Openwrt ONE, no led lights at all in NAND

Installing and Using OpenWrt
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Hey All,

I'm a beginner to most of this stuff, but I followed the directions quite well,l I thought.

I just got the WRT ONE and started setting it up using LUCI. Until I got to the USB upgrade. The upgrade seemed to work, but I could not install luci again through SSH using apk. It just kept saying the package was not available.

I ended up doing a hard or soft reset (I can't recall my steps), and now I can't boot at all through NAND and get no LEDs turning on at all.

I went into NOR recovery mode and still could not connect to luci, so I tried in SSH but used the old package manager and was able to install luci. I tried all methods of factory restore(I think), but still no LEDs in NAND.

Did I brick the unbrickable?

Leave it to a begginiger eh?

Any help is appreciated.

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Serial console is exposed via USB, start from there.
If you can not recall what you did - yeah, in extreme case you can brick both normal boot chains, even then you still can load early boot blocks via that serial connection.

Could have been much easier to do just one sysupgrade.

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so the issue isn't that it's bricked, but that the LEDs aren't working ?

based on your statement above, not even close ?

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There are no LEDs in NAND boot indicating that there is no connection correct? I have tried to connect to the device in NAND but there is no connection while in NAND.

If I can only boot in NOR recovery than the device is essentially useless. This for me is a brick if NAND can not be restored to original functionality.

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then post the complete attempt to move from NOR to NAND, plus the failed boot from NAND.

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If I'm not mistaken I did do the correct Sysupgrade. I follwed the video that Openwrt has linked on their website("celebrating 20 years of openwrt) I even tried a sysupgrade via luci in nor recovery and that changed nothing in NAND boot.

The problem is that when it came to LUci install the apk manager via SSH was not installing or upgrading or updating anything. This led to some frustration and then some factory restoring(or so I thought)

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start by not using snapshots, and the problem will go away.

yes, the wiki page linked to snapshots, but not any more.

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1.Device unplugged and usb installed with appropriate pkgs.
2. Nor flipped on
3. Holding front button only gets me a flashing orange light for an infinite amount of time, holding reset gets me through the led cycle with a slow flashing white before a solid green.
4. I power off device and flip to NAND
5. nothing happens. No leds, no connectivity.

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nice, now post the serial output of it all.

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"start by not using snapshots"

Can you be a bit more detailed please? Where then do I grab the pkgs from to put on the USB?

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at the wiki page, like I said, links have been updated.

or https://firmware-selector.openwrt.org/

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no idea what serial ouput is.
Beginner remember.

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USB-C cable between your client and the One.
fire up serial port app (like Putty) on the client.

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okay, check.

So what would you reccomend? I type in open wrt one for model. at drop down menu what is best option? RC4 25/0? and which option do I download?

sysupgrade
factory.ubi
kernal
etc

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all of them but snapshots include the webUI, I'd go for 24.10.5.

you need the images listed in the wiki.

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host is modem or the pc I connect the one to?

Once connected, than what?

Thank you for your patience.

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whoa, so all the downloads images available after choosing your date need to be placed on the usb for flash?

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I wrote client, modem isn't a client ?

the device manager port will only show once One is connected to your client via USB-C.

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okay putty seems a bit too advanced for now.

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then you're on your own, we really need this.