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)