No idea why they only backport some devices. My guess is that the developers can only vouch for those, and the rest stays on the master branch, but as I said, it's only a guess.
Anyhow I just finished baking a build based on that tag with my patches. I published it here should anyone be interested:
Like my previous builds, the package selection is the basic plus what I use. It isn't too hard to make your own builds if you wish, by cloning that repo, or cloning the official one and rebasing to your liking.
But since this build is based on the stable release tag, and uses its repos, most stuff should be installable with opkg (although packages related to kernel modules don't seem to be compatible... if anyone knows how to make a build and force a certain magic number, please share and I can try, but even then compatibility probably isn't guaranteed and may brick your router).
After I unpacked the box and checked the IC flash there was a difference, the first made GigaDevice and the second was WinBond
In the meantime I conclude, if the router with the WinBond manufacturing Flash IC is only suitable for the Araujorm Snapshoot build ( 20200722 ) and if it is a GigaDevice then all builds are fine.
I don't know why that is, whether the influence of the kernel or the difference in the quality of the Flash IC brand or Is it possible that the device has been counterfeited so that it has a different FLASH IC
Hopefully this information can be input for all of you.
Hello acecilia, I can confirm that with latest firmware I still can run exploit and can access telnet CLI of my router, great work. Another thing to note:
pycryptodome - can replace pycrypto (deprecated) - on windows instalation with python 3.7-3.8 is required to do so, otherwise this command cannot work: pip3 install -r requirements.txt
Can you please confirm that this exploit works with "pycryptodome" on Mac or linux?
I just wanna ask about a problem since i couldn't find any other forum for xiaomi's this product.
I didn't use openwrt or any other thing, i was using router as stock software. It's global version of 4A Gigabit.
However this monday when i woke up, i saw that router isn't working. There is stable orange light instead of blue one. I made some research on google and i think it's on bootfail status. I tried to reset reset modem with reset button however it's still on the same status. I am trying to reinstall its stock latest software however i can't access to router from browser. Computer keeps seeing as ethernet device but saying no internet connection.
I am open to any suggestion from you precious members of this forum to fix my device
Please try searching the topic for "guide". You'll find this post and perhaps others:
It has some videos that may help. Other than that, can't help much further since I've never tried any of these guides as I used a flasher to unlock mine (a year ago, when there was no exploit available) and thus never needed these.
It's difficult to get to work in Windows but it can be done, its much easier to run in Linux, I made a video that shows you how to do it plenty of links here to that (I'm trying not to spam!). In the description of that video I also have a link to a video on how to set up a VM so you can run Linux (Ubuntu) in windows. Hopefully, this will solve your issues.
It's not that difficult to make it work on windows, If there is a right package "pycryptodome" instead of pycrypto which is deprecated. I would suggest to change requirements.txt from acecilia github, since it's confirmed working on linux by Brett. I can make quick tutorial if someone wants to run under windows, if there is an interest give a like to my post. BTW - hoddy if it was not clear I was having issues with deprecated package pycrypto. Never with acecilia instructions on how to use this exploit.
