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Hello friends,

When trying to install the new firmware of the router TP-LINK archer C50, something has happened and it does not turn on anymore, it only lights up the red internet LED and nothing else, I have no answer on the network ports, and no ping. Wanted to know how to re-write the router's firmware, what am I going to need to buy?

All help and welcome and thanks to all for the help

https://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/tp-link/ar … e-bricking

You used that method, right?

Recovery mode write u-Boot and firmware to adress 0x00000000 on flash. So if you used openwrt image, uboot was erased and the router is permanently bricked. The only way out is to re-program the flash chip using a SPI flash programmer, download the firmware from the tplink site, then download dd and run dd if=fw.bin of=uboot.bin skip=512 bs=1 count=64k in the folder where you saved the firmware(rename the firmware to fw.bin), use the SPI flash programmer to write the generated uboot.bin to adress 000000-010000 on the flash(but don't erase the whole flash, only the first 64kb of it - 000000-010000 hex), then use the TFTP method carefully to re-write the firmware,

(Last edited by user5077 on 21 May 2017, 08:39)

Hi,

Thanks for reply.

i use tufts method, but after that, router no more boot up, and now i don't have any response for try holding reset+power on only red lifts for "internet" ler flash

Read again, TFTP/serial will NOT work, because bootloader is dead, you could only use a SPI programmer to reflash it. Otherwise, throw away the router as there's no other way out.

user5077 wrote:

Read again, TFTP/serial will NOT work, because bootloader is dead, you could only use a SPI programmer to reflash it. Otherwise, throw away the router as there's no other way out.


Thanks for the help, and sorry for my bad english, I tried to use a SPI USB CH341A to record a new Flash Bios for my router, I used the factory file (Archer C50v1_0.9.1_1.0_up_boot (150325) _2015-03- 25_14.03.35.bin) but the router continued to display the standard of the video I posted.

If it is possible to orient me once more, and inform me where I am wrong, since I thank you for the help, I live in Brazil, and information is not easy to find, and this is a high price router and is less than 3 months old .

Grato Guedes,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLgRpnjwutQ

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