install ddwrt on archer c7 EU without damaging it [SOLVED]

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PostPosted: Fri Jul 09, 2021 20:30    Post subject: install ddwrt on archer c7 EU without damaging it [SOLVED] Reply with quote
I have a tp-link (AC1750) ARCHER C7 (EU) with the stock firmware and I never changed it because I was scared.

When I just bought it and thought to install the ddwrt I read here in the forum that the manufacture of my archer EU and the firmware of my equipment gave problems and finally it bricked it... that's why I left it with the stock firmware.

Now I am determined to change the stock and the first thing I did was change the stock firmware to another, as the wiki here refers
https://wiki.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/TP_Link_Archer_C7

V2 only - Upgrade from TP-Link Archer_C7_V2_131217 firmware to Archer_C7_V2_150427 firmware.
(MSOENGINEER is hosting the 150427 file here)

Archer_C7_V2_131217 gives "Error code: -1" trying to load any DD-WRT firmware. Make sure to upgrade to TP link 150427 first


well i didnt find the firmware 150427 of the wiki but i just update to the 170803

Now I want to download the factory-to-ddwrt file from the appropriate hardware of my version, Archer C7 v2, from here but nowhere is the version for mine EU
https://download1.dd-wrt.com/dd-wrtv2/downloads/betas/2021/07-08-2021-r47033/tplink_archer-c7-v2/

so ... could someone help me install the ddwrt firmware on my archer c7 and not die trying?


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PostPosted: Fri Jul 09, 2021 21:00    Post subject: Reply with quote
The link to the stock firmware file you need to flash before you flash dd-wrt is linked in the wiki.

You can also find it at the links below.

https://rebyte.me/en/tp-link/142516/file-1031369/

https://drivers.softpedia.com/get/Router-Switch-Access-Point/TP-Link/TP-Link-Archer-C7-v2-Router-Firmware-150427.shtml

There's plenty of posts in this forum about this and why you must flash that specific stock firmware version. You have been here since 2007 and you're asking for help on something rather basic, so it just seems you need to read this thread.

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PostPosted: Fri Jul 09, 2021 21:29    Post subject: Reply with quote
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The link to the stock firmware file you need to flash before you flash dd-wrt is linked in the wiki.

You can also find it at the links below.

https://rebyte.me/en/tp-link/142516/file-1031369/


I just remembered why I could not install the ddwrt and it is this, when I tried to install the firmware that they said in the wiki I could not because I got this



This is why I could never install it and even though I searched the forum I could not find any reference to this problem
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PostPosted: Fri Jul 09, 2021 21:45    Post subject: Reply with quote
Two separate threads that come up via Google search for "error code 18005 archer c7 forum.dd-wrt.com":

https://forum.dd-wrt.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=1127046

https://forum.dd-wrt.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=287073

This is why the wiki references a specific stock firmware version to flash the v2.

Happy flashing, I'm done.

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PostPosted: Sun Jul 11, 2021 23:49    Post subject: Reply with quote
kernel-panic69 wrote:
Two separate threads that come up via Google search for "error code 18005 archer c7 forum.dd-wrt.com":

https://forum.dd-wrt.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=1127046

https://forum.dd-wrt.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=287073

This is why the wiki references a specific stock firmware version to flash the v2.

Happy flashing, I'm done.


WOOW THANKS bro finally the stock firmware is out!!! It went right! Well... I have openwrt and it was sooo much haard to install it that i had no problems with keeping it like that

...but I saw that connecting the printer is more difficult than sleep on a bicycle or pee coughing

And that's why I still want to change to ddwrt so that will be another job that I hope is simpler than the 1st...

in the thread they get to install the openwrt but nobody says they have installed the ddwrt and I don't know if it is done by via tftp or just installing the ddwrt firmware like any other, and I don't know if I should use the factory-ddwrt or the sysupgrade... good as it may.

thanks you, at least it came out of stock that I was more than 1 year without being able to change
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 12, 2021 0:43    Post subject: Reply with quote
I don't know how you managed to not flash it to dd-wrt, given the information. There was even specific files in one thread to use to bring the stock firmware back to the correct status so DD-WRT would flash. You immediately zeroed in on a link to the OpenWRT tftp flash how-to and didn't look back, apparently. Please re-read this thread, because you are not grasping anything that is given to you.
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PostPosted: Thu Jul 22, 2021 21:38    Post subject: Reply with quote
finally I could do it!!

English is not my mother lenguage and because of that I was misunderstood some things, so i had to make me with google translator and voala!! NOW I have ddwrt in my archer c7 Laughing Very Happy

I cofigure it immediately as a wireless client to have a 2rd internet input for my R9000 as backup wan, but... Now I am having problems because when I wired from my laptop to the archer I get high up and down speed and when I connect by wifi 2/5ghz the speed drops to the floor...

but that's another thread's issue

Thanks!! now this thread ca be closed because its solved

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