Hello guys finally I could unbrick mi router 3 from the dead, I ask a friend that have a nand programmer and I finally recover mi router 3 ( mir3 ) from brick mode.
I didnt need to do the spi fix because I realize that I have a nand and not doing anything with it, i thouth why not try to burn the nand from stock, with a bin I found.
And it works, my router is back from the dead.
Next thing is try to get ssh from the new version 10.46
Thanks to all .
@moriel5 - How can I write your firmware x-wrt from stock? Do you have any walkthrough for doing safely? I don't want to brick mi router 3 again.
Thanks
ps. sorry for my english
Sorry everyone, I wasn't at home the past few days (real life priorities), and the local DSLAM had crashed during that time.
From my experience, as comfortable as it is to move directly from PandoraBox to X-Wrt, it's not a good idea, due to the partition layout differences.
My recommendation is to flash the "breed-factory" img from stock, by sending the command: `mtd write bootloader **.img" (replace the ** with the filename), after unlocking the bootloader according to the instructions on the OpenWrt page.
There are also instructions there for returning to stock from PandoraBox.
Hopefully the Mi 3 will be again officially supported by OpenWrt soon, and then we wont have to use any forks.
@moriel5 can you provide any guide how to switch from open-wrt to x-wrt? Do I need to flash to stock? Or just do "sysupgrade x-wrt-5.0-xxxxx-ramips-mt7620-xiaomi_miwifi-r3-squashfs-sysupgrade.bin"
Is it safe to go from open-wrt to x-wrt and vice versa (in the future when the bug is solved in open-wrt)?
@moriel5 Does X-WRT offer full speeds on Wifi? Which file did you exactly flash?
I am on PandoraBox as of now, how can I switch?
Also, when was Mi Router 3 ever officially supported by OpenWRT? Did it offer full speeds on WiFi?
@ptpt52 Do you have a link to the exact stock firmware file you used?
Sorry, I do not know the answer to those questions yet, since I had not had OpenWrt on my Mi 3 yet (I will once it will be officially supported and stabilized, though).
I went directly from PandoraBox using the breed image, which is why I do not recommend doing so (it works, but due to the different filesystems, not everything as it should be, such as the PandoraBox recovery remaining, preventing proper upgrades, etc.).
If they do, it must be in chinese, and I did not find any such forum.
As for documentation, they have a sort of blog in chinese (I used Bing translate to read the contents), and while it seems to have relative basic competence, it only covers a few subjects, such as using a VPN. I had to rely on OpenWrt documentation and my own knowledge to set it up.
I'll check when I have the time, my ISP only provides us ~40Mbts (up from ~32Mbts due to mismatched settings between my ISP and their provider), so I'll have to find time to use scp or ftp between my desktop and laptop.
As for switching from PandoraBox, my recommendation is first going back to stock, and only then flashing X-Wrt.
The Mi 3 was supported by OpenWrt about 1.5-2 years ago on the SNAPSHOT builds, but lack of a NAND driver was one of the main things that prevented it from being supported (I've been reading about OpenWrt when I had the time, since about 3 years ago).
You'll find the image on x-wrt.com, they update it every day (since it is basically OpenWrt SNAPSHOT with their kernel.
hi, my mi r3 dont ON leds anymore, im trying to Hard reset on it but he me show an error on firstboot, later in a frustrant try to recovery, i put one power suply of 24v 1.2 A, and now im confuse if was The power suply or The try to recovery.
hey everyone..
so i tried going back to stock from pandorabox..
i followed instruction till:
cd /tmp
mtd write Bootloader.bin Bootloader
mtd write kernel0.bin kernel0_rsvd
reboot
but after reboot i got constant orange light and serial output looks like this:
i used the same usb>serial converter before on my router this time i dont know whats wrong(its a pl2303ta)..
any ideas?
pffff...
after some fiddling around now im on x-wrt ...
how ever some stuff like startup tab or software tab are missing from luci anyway to get them back?