Support for TP-Link RE355 which is identical with RE450?

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Thanks, @samoth! Is it possible to recover re355 using the same re450 firmware (re450bs.bin)?

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@facada: Yes should be possible see first post in this thread. The hardware is absolutely the same. But I have not tried it.
Best regards, Samoth

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@samoth Thanks again for the reply.
It's possible to use re450_back_to_stock.bin to recover re355 or back to stock firmware!

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@facada: Great. Thanks for the info.:grinning: Could you perhaps post a foto with connected cable and what cable you have used to load the firmware.

Best regards, Samoth

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@samoth I've used LuCI interface (System - Firmware upgrade) to upload the firmware. My router is not bricked.

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@facada: Really, that's cool. You mean you have used the re450bs.bin with Luci and then you were back to stock ? Then it is a new method, interesting. :grinning:
Best regards, Samoth

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@samoth exactly! everything came back as before! :smiley:

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Where can I find re450_back_to_stock.bin firmware for Openwrt?

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@hpham

Have you found the re450_back_to_stock.bin and does it work on a TP link re355?

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See https://tplinkforum.pl/t/firmware-bez-bootloadera-dla-routerow-tp-link/9661

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@samoth
Thanks. Have it been verified that it work on TP link RE355?

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Please read the whole post then you will find the answer above.

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I stay at openwrt firmware. Now I configurate correctly and it stable now.

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Ok, fine. But as written above you can switch easily to the original firmware back via re450_back_to_stock.bin.

All the best, samoth

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@samoth
Thanks. Once you have switched back it will be using re450 firmware. And if at a later date you decided to use openwrt again, would you use re355 or re450 openwrt factory image?

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Depends what you want to do.

The original TPLINK RE450 firmware has more functionalities as the RE355 e.g. working as an access point etc.

  • For the RE355 I am using re355_us-up-ver1-0-0-P1[20151105-rel69234].bin which has the highest radio output signal. On RE450 I am using re450_un-up-ver1-0-0-P1[20171215-rel55534].bin.

  • For the RE355 I am using re355_us-up-ver1-0-0-P1[20151105-rel69234].bin which has the highest radio output signal. On RE450 I am using re450_un-up-ver1-0-0-P1[20171215-rel55534].bin.

If I want to use OpenWRT on RE450 or RE355 I am using the openwrt firmware openwrt-19.07.4-ar71xx-generic-re450-v1-squashfs-sysupgrade.bin.

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Is this upgrade path possible for re355 as it identical hardware as re450?
Original Stock->openwrt re355 factory->re450_back_to_stock.bin->re450_un-up-ver1-0-0-P1[20171215-rel55534].bin

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If you change on RE355 from Openwrt Re450 Firmware back to stock then you have on your Re355 already the RE450 functionality.

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Thank you . That was the answer I was looking for.

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Hi I have openwrt 19.07.04 installed on the TP link re355 and it look like I'm short of flash storage.
spi says I have 8M flash. df -hk says I have only 4.8M (rom+overlay).
Do you have this problem?

root@OpenWrt:~# dmesg|grep spi
[    0.000000] Kernel command line:  board=RE355 mtdparts=spi0.0:128k(u-boot)ro,6016k(firmware),64k(partition-table)ro,64k(product-info)ro,1856k(config)ro,64k(art)ro console=ttyS0,115200 rootfstype=squashfs noinitrd
[    0.646240] m25p80 spi0.0: found s25fl064k, expected m25p80
[    0.664288] m25p80 spi0.0: s25fl064k (8192 Kbytes)
[    0.669194] 6 cmdlinepart partitions found on MTD device spi0.0
[    0.675196] Creating 6 MTD partitions on "spi0.0":
root@OpenWrt:~# df -kh
Filesystem                Size      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/root                 2.8M      2.8M         0 100% /rom
tmpfs                    60.8M     60.0K     60.8M   0% /tmp
/dev/mtdblock4            1.6M    236.0K      1.4M  14% /overlay
overlayfs:/overlay        1.6M    236.0K      1.4M  14% /
tmpfs                   512.0K         0    512.0K   0% /dev
root@OpenWrt:~#