Are the TPLink partitions only useful when you want to TFTP back to stock firmware?
Will I still be able to tftp DDWRT releases if I ever brick, if I don't fix this partition?
Those partitions are most likely required also when you attempt to flash from TP-Link web interface a new firmware!
Would expect TP-Link firmware to use the info on those partitions to check against the new firmware image for a match.
If you end-up flashing TP-Link firmware (from DD-WRT) and the content of those partitions is bad you might not be able to update original firmware or to flash back DD-WRT firmware without opening router case and using UART.
where do i look to see if pations are overwriten? any help is good plz
Posted: Sun Aug 13, 2017 2:50 Post subject: My Experience With C1900
Just wanted to give some advice from my experience. After flashing dd-wrt I immediately decided to go back. I did not see the feature I was looking for. No worries, I seem to be asking the impossible outside a very expensive router. After being told I would have to open the unit buy things to connect I started to panic. Then I found this thread.My first mistake was using the C9 file instead of the C1900 file, which was in the first example. So everytime i tried to upgrade back up using C1900 latest FW it failed. Then i tried many times to use tftp. The quick easy download program TFTPD32 and TFTPD64 by Philippe Jouni was not actually working on windows 10.That wasted time, so I don't recommend using that. I started using winagent. This actually works. I could see what the router was actually looking for, V2 instead of V1, that's when I realized I had the wrong file. I reverted back to dd-wrt and used the correct file for C1900. I did all the steps to change the MAC back, worth it. Then I was able to upgrade once back to factory software.
My router was not from costco, but it was the black one, all working now. Thanks for all the posts.
Tftpd32 and tftpd64 work on both my windows 10 computers. So don't let that discourage anyone else. _________________ I am far from a guru, I'm barely a novice.
Trying to get back to stock. I have read all of this thread and am wondering since this is a few years old now if this is still the defacto method(s) for doing so. Thanks.
You probably run out of nvram. Do a reset instead of flashing new FW.
Possibly, but how? Buttons don't respond to 303030 or recovery, and I cant connect to telnet or ss. Only tp-link http recovery page works. (all of these were enabled in configuration)
Per Yngve Berg wrote:
Did you connect a usb memory stick to host the jffs volume?
no.
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Posted: Sat Nov 11, 2017 18:36 Post subject: Archer C8 V2 brick
Hello!
This is C8 V2, not C9, but I have the same problem:
( https://www.dd-wrt.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=988029#988029 )
So erased mtd3, and now running CFE for V1 instead of CFE for V2, so all the blue LED-s ON, but the UART is still working.
Anyone can send me a "recovery pack": mtd3, and cfe or a full dump?