I'm trying the unbrick found at the end in this video, but it doesn't work for me.
I've followed all the steps (configure wired network on laptop as 192.168.1.2 and 255.255.255.0 and no gateway, connect the eth cable to first right port (no WAN) looking from behind, press reset and the power cord until yellow flashes).
Since I have 4A non-gigabit I've downloaded the firmware from miwifi and placed in the same folder as Tiny PXE Server and selected before pressing online.
After some time the yellow flash light turn in blue and flashing faster.
I left the router more than 10 minutes, but after, when reconnecting normally, the yellow light flash very slow and it's not seen from the computer (I've removed the fixed IP, but tried also with it).
From here: http://miwifi.com/miwifi_download.html
You will probably need Google translate to help you, click the ROM tab at the top and then select your router
What about Padavan?I found this Russian Forum @https://4pda.ru/forum/index.php?showtopic=988197&st=0
It's quite easy to flash using Zorro's method but all the download links are error 404.It would be nice if anyone could extract those files out of there and upload them in a different directory.Thanks to everyone for there efforts.
Recovered the router with original fw, upgraded manually to 2.18.58 via web UI
Tried again the OpenWRTInvasion to get telnet access and now it works.
Now, what is the correct fw to upload to the 4A 100M?
Is this the correct page where to download?
The snapshot or the other one?
And then
cd /tmp
curl http://downloads.openwrt.org/releases/19.07.2/targets/ramips/mt76x8/openwrt-19.07.2-ramips-mt76x8-xiaomi_mir4a-100m-squashfs-sysupgrade.bin --output firmware.bin # Is this the correct fw??
./busybox sha256sum firmware.bin # Verify the firmware checksum before flashing, very important to avoid bricking your device!
mtd -e OS1 -r write firmware.bin OS1 # Install OpenWrt
After flashing should I do this?
After flashing openwrt FW you need to ssh to router and install luci then enable wifi from settings.
ok, so, last thing, if I install the stable I don't have to install luci and I'm done, I have just to reboot the router and connect wired to configure, correct?
I had to manually download the firmware locally and then copy via FTP to the router because downloading with curl gave me a file of 185B while the fw is 4.0MB, then I renamed it to firmware.bin and did the mtd command.
You need to click the link in a browser then right click on the "download now" (or whatever) and select copy link location to get a download link. Links will be temporary and may also only be for your IP.