Hi all, I took a try on the snapshot with TP-Link Archer A7 v5 (stable not available AFAIK), but was not happy with the wireless speed (at least halved compared to stock firmware). So I would like to move back to stock.
I have read many times how to revert, on different websites and also here, specifically for TP-Link routers. I followed the TFTP recovery steps - downloaded Archer A7 the official .bin, rename it to ArcherC7v5_tp_recovery.bin (as per https://openwrt.org/toh/hwdata/tp-link/tp-link_archer_a7_v5), turn on recovery mode (WPS LED was on), TFTP to the router with fixed IP 192.168.0.66, and saw a spike in the outbound network graph. But the router kept on booting up OpenWrt.
Can't believe I've spent so much time on such silly issue! THANK YOU for this solution and it worked perfectly.
Rolling back from latest Openwrt version to stock TP Link firmware makes the router appear bricked. Installing 19.07.10 resuscitates the router, as well as allows the stock TP Link firmware to be installed onto the router. All these steps are done via FTTP.
Sorry that this post is so long, but I wanted to give as much information as I could:
I have tried to do this, but no matter what I do I am stuck at OpenWrt version 23.05.0. I tried downgrading to the older version of OpenWrt (19.07.10), but when I login to the GUI it still shows 23.05.0. I have tried downgrading from the GUI, and it gives me an error that the file is does not pass the file check.
I have also tried these steps from another thread, and get the same results OpenWrt 23.05.0.
After it flashes, and reboots into dd-wrt download this recovery stock file from the that wiki page, and do the tftp recovery method again Download this recovery firmware file
Once it flashes you end up on stock router web page at 192.168.0.1 you can either update the firmware from firmware upgrade page, or you can another tftp recovery, and from this page Download for Archer A7 | TP-Link
I have tried several TFTP servers on Windows, the transfers go ok, but it is never
Hi,
I tried this method. I am able to see the OpenWRT version as OpenWrt 19.07.10 r11427-9ce6aa9d8d / LuCI openwrt-19.07 branch git-22.099.58928-786ebc9 but when I use TFTP and Flash the latest firmware found in TPLINK page (Renamed to ArcherC7v5_tp_recovery.bin), the flashing seem to work, however when router reboots it goes to OpenWRT again. Any help is appreciated.
TFTP Upload log below:
Connection received from 192.168.0.86 on port 1643 [03/12 00:54:18.024]
Read request for file <ArcherC7v5_tp_recovery.bin>. Mode octet [03/12 00:54:18.024]
OACK: <timeout=5,blksize=1468,> [03/12 00:54:18.040]
Using local port 49695 [03/12 00:54:18.040]
<ArcherC7v5_tp_recovery.bin>: sent 10680 blks, 15677994 bytes in 2 s. 0 blk resent [03/12 00:54:20.852]
Finally, I fixed it. I had to go back to stock firmware beacause I had bought a TPLink RE300 wifi extender with Mesh support but couldn't mesh it with Openwrt on my Archer A7. Also, RE300 dosen't seem to be having a Openwrt firmware. I almost gave up after several hours trying to figure this out. For some reason the Archer A7 I am having dosen't want to go to stock firmware even though I downgraded by Openwrt version to 19.10. Before giving up I tried one last google search and found one user mention about loading a DDWRT on the router and then going to stock. I tried that and it worked.
Remember, all the firmware (Openwrt, DDwrt, TPLink stock) I used were old ones from 2019 or 2020. This need to be updated in the Openwrt Wiki.
TFTP usually works. But the bootloader TFTP recovery checks for a country code in the firmware and will not flash it if the file does not include the original market region marked on the label. It will do what you described: transfer the file, see that it is not correct, then reboot without flashing anything. So when using this method be sure to download from the proper TP-Link regional site.
