R7800 question for hnyman

[hnyman]

I have no knowledge about flashing from Voxel firmware. No idea if that accepts OpenWrt images.

But the tftp recovery flash method (in u-boot bootloader) always works. It requires an OpenWrt factory image. Read instructions in r7800 OpenWrt wiki and e.g. in forum

Netgear R7800 exploration (IPQ8065, QCA9984)

R7800 has an easy-to-use TFTP recovery mode in the bootloader, similar as e.g. WNDR3700. @dissent1 gave me the info, which was really useful as I managed to brick the router a few minutes ago when testing thermal drivers. I recovered from a boot loop with this process. Works like a charm. Prerequisites for TFTP recovery A TFTP client for your computer. There are both command-line tools and GUI versions available. (I use currently tftpd64 GUI tool from jounin. tftp2 tool (from dd-wrt) used to…

You should either take my newest 23.05 build factory image (that has support for USB storage, SQM etc. built-in) or the official 23.05.0 factory image (into which you might need to install a few add-ons).