OpenWrt to stock firmware on netgear wndr4300 router

chrisb · July 28, 2021, 3:20pm

Good day,

I am attempting to flash openWRT firmware back to the stock firmware on my Netgear WNDR4300 router. Any assistance would be appreciated.

tmomas · July 28, 2021, 3:32pm

WNDR4300 v1 or v2?

chrisb · July 28, 2021, 3:35pm

The version is V1

tmomas · July 28, 2021, 3:36pm

See https://openwrt.org/toh/netgear/wndr4300#oem_installation_using_the_tftp_method

badulesia · July 28, 2021, 3:46pm

You can also use nmrpflash tool, it works very well.

chrisb · July 28, 2021, 4:33pm

I have followed the tftp method. Thank you for this.

My follow up question is this. How long does it take for the router to finish flash back to the stock firmware. At this moment the power light is still amber and the LAN lights keep blinking amber every few seconds. Any update will be appreciated.

badulesia · July 28, 2021, 7:41pm

The flashing process by itself is quite fast (less than 1 min). But the boot after may take some time.
noob question: did you reboot ?

chrisb · July 29, 2021, 1:49pm

I reboot and I got through.
Thanks for the assistance.

badulesia · July 29, 2021, 2:18pm

Cool.
Close this topic by marking it solved.

system · August 8, 2021, 2:18pm

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