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Topic: Crossflash an Archer C5 V1.2 to C7 v2.0 guide

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Hello,
As is already known we can cross-flash an Archer C5 V1.2 with Archer C7 V2.0 firmware and bootloader.
This is a guide to make it happen 100% as is already tested on my HW smile In english.
Download this ready to be used package
http://d-h.st/xtN9
And lets go:
1. Flash using the webgui of tplink the BB openwrt firmware "openwrt-ar71xx-generic-archer-c5-squashfs-factory.bin"
2. Login to Luci with 192.168.1.1 and make sure you have set an ssh password
3. Push the "Archer-C7-V2-FW0.0.3-stripped.bin" into routers /tmp folder with
:~$ scp Archer-C7-V2-FW0.0.3-stripped.bin root@192.168.1.1:/tmp
4. Login to router by ssh/putty with
:~$ ssh root@192.168.1.1 and type your previously set password
5. Type this
sysupgrade -F /tmp/Archer-C7-V2-FW0.0.3-stripped.bin
and wait a few minutes don’t worry is not stuck at [w] just wait until done and router will reboot. smile
6. Login to c7 web interface and flash the "ArcherC7v2_v3_en_3_14_1_up_boot(141110).bin" to get the c7 bootloader
Let it reboot once more and now got to System Tools and select factory default.
Now when ready, flash the latest upgrade which the moment of writing this, is ArcherC7v2_en_3_14_3_up_boot(150427).bin.
All needed files/binaries are included in my zip package
Done!
Enjoy.

(Last edited by Demetris on 11 Apr 2016, 19:55)

Thanks so much for this!!!

So I finally got around to doing this with great success!

The only changes was that I did this from windows so I downloaded two utilities from here:

http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgta … nload.html

Putty and PSCP

So Step 3 became:
pscp -scp d:\Downloads\c5toc7\Archer-C7-V2-FW0.0.3-stripped.bin root@192.168.1.1:/tmp

Everything else was the same in step 4 except I was using PUTTY

Cheers!!

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