[Solved] Asus RT-AC58U | sysupgrade -F /bin/busybox | help please

[glazeus]

Hello,
Afraid that I bricked device after steps below. Please help me to get out from that.

1. Factory stock was flashed by Automatic Method stock2lede.trx [1] successfully to LEDE
2. After reboot and login to device I executed step 5 for returning to stock [2]
   sysupgrade -F /bin/busybox
3. As result it's flash by all leds and keep still one led only for ~30 seconds [3]

Router was connected by cable to laptop that have 192.168.1.1 255.255.255.0 and recovery tool gave up with next actions [4]

Thank you!
[1] http://lede-ac58u.zyxmon.org/HowToFlashENG.html
[2] https://openwrt.org/toh/asus/rt-ac58u

[glazeus]

Additional links (forum limitation)
[3] https://youtu.be/mhSYndrF31Y
[4] https://photos.app.goo.gl/Zqkkw8Sf4Zot7wUU7

[mk24]

Flashing busybox instead of a real firmware is intended to soft brick the router to make it boot into recovery mode. Now you have to get the recovery program working.

[glazeus]

@mk24, thx for respond.
After 5sec holding reset button I able to ping router by default ip 192.168.1.1, 1 led flash slowly as described in faq [1]
Restore tool still told that device is not in recovery mode.
Is there any trick to make recovery work?
Thx
[1] https://www.asus.com/nz/support/FAQ/1000814/

[glazeus]

@mk24 Thx again for direction
I was able to recovery to stock firmware.
In my case trick was to use oldest available version: 3.0.0.4.380.8228
It even remember password from original stock image.
Wonderful

[tmomas]

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