I had the same problem with my WR1043N v1, every available DD-WRT from database was killing router but have successfully restored original TP-LINK firmware and router is working. Do you still need help with it?
Motivated by replies to this thread I gave later versions a try, but unfortunately the firmware is not getting updated.
I upload via the webgui on Firmware: DD-WRT v3.0-r36104 std (06/10/1, but nothing changes after the restart.
I always use the TFTP method and revert to the stock firmware first. From there I then flash the latest "factory-to-ddwrt.bin" file (backup settings before and restore after).
Joined: 14 Oct 2016 Posts: 109 Location: United States
Posted: Sun Sep 15, 2019 15:35 Post subject:
Hello,
So r39290 (3/26/2019) works fine but have to first revert back to latest stock firmware before doing a TFTP flash of factory-to-ddwrt.bin (no web gui flash whatsoever)?
I wonder if this could mean that even newer builds work fine but updating from an older version of DD-WRT to a newer version via web gui is out of the question.
I'm currently running r33607 (10/25/2017) and it might be time do update the firmware to stay up to date (in case of any security issues in the past 2 years after KRACK). Only thing that is kind of scaring me is seeing a couple threads where people have been running into flashing failures when trying to update their DD-WRT to a newer version from 2018/2019.
I wonder if this could mean that even newer builds work fine but updating from an older version of DD-WRT to a newer version via web gui is out of the question.
Just a newer data point along those lines: I successfully updated a WR1043ND v1.1 unit from the factory firmware to DD-WRT v3.0-r41786 std (12/23/19). Hope this helps any other lurkers with old hardware.
Joined: 06 Feb 2018 Posts: 48 Location: Vienna, Austria
Posted: Thu Jan 02, 2020 14:36 Post subject:
As the filename may indicate, it can be only used for flashing via webinterface. Just use the corresponding factory-to-ddwrt-file. As you may notice, it is 28 Bytes smaller.