Topic: Unable To Install OpenWrt On WR710N US 1.0: Error 18005

20 Jan 2016, 14:30

Hello all,

I'm having issues installing both the trunk and 15.05 firmware of my WR710N. The TP-Link webUI throws the following error when I select the firmware: "Error 18005 (Upgrade unsuccessfully because the version of the upgraded file was incorrect. Please check the file name.)" I have the USA version (v1) of the device and am on the latest official firmware (TL-WR710N_V1_151022_US).

Is there an easy way to resolve this issue? I tried downgrading the firmware and am getting the same issue. Is there any other firmware I could try? DD-WRT was able to resolve this issue by modifying the the US header here: http://www.dd-wrt.com/phpBB2/viewtopic. … d6f08418ab .

Thanks in advance for your help!

(Last edited by xeem on 20 Jan 2016, 15:37)

22 Jan 2016, 17:54

Hey everyone,

GreyDoc on the DD-WRT forum was able to modify the binary with the correct header information. I was able to use this binary to install OpenWrt 15.05 without any issues on my WR710N. The binary can found here.

Hopefully this bug will fixed in the main trunk soon!

(Last edited by xeem on 22 Jan 2016, 17:54)

8 Mar 2016, 04:03

How was this header information modified? I'd like to do this myself for my own build of OpenWRT.

8 Mar 2016, 13:41

cvocvo wrote:

How was this header information modified? I'd like to do this myself for my own build of OpenWRT.

all you have to do is what is posted on #2, once you are in DD-WRT yoiu revert with their webrevert, then you flash OpenWrt
read here http://www.dd-wrt.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=288962
and here http://www.dd-wrt.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=289789

8 Mar 2016, 13:52

Hi,

On the Community Documentation board, member keyboardgnome has posted a work-around. There is further discussion, info, methods, etc., at this URL:

https://forum.openwrt.org/viewtopic.php?id=63123

HTH.

Clemmitt

9 Mar 2016, 02:38

danymarc wrote:

cvocvo wrote:
How was this header information modified? I'd like to do this myself for my own build of OpenWRT.
all you have to do is what is posted on #2, once you are in DD-WRT yoiu revert with their webrevert, then you flash OpenWrt
read here http://www.dd-wrt.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=288962
and here http://www.dd-wrt.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=289789

Ideally we can just modify the header on our OpenWRT images so we can do what Xeem has done with his image OR what the DD-WRT folks are doing. Then we don't have to image twice just to get OpenWRT onto hardware.

cmsigler wrote:

Hi,
On the Community Documentation board, member keyboardgnome has posted a work-around. There is further discussion, info, methods, etc., at this URL:
https://forum.openwrt.org/viewtopic.php?id=63123
HTH.
Clemmitt

Thanks for the direction; BrainSlayer is mentioning setting a region code in the header. I'm going to look into that and see what I can determine. The USB formatted method seems..messy and more like an exploit than anything.