Posted: Sat Mar 18, 2023 0:47 Post subject: R8000 incompatible firmware version
Hi, after spending 3 hours looking though the fourm and trying multiple things which ill list below, I decided to make a post instead of lurking. I purchased a R8000 router from ebay that has Firmware Version V1.4.1.68_1.3.28 on it.
I tried to do what was suggested a long time ago as in to flash openwrt into ddwrt but I could not get openwrt to work either. Gave the same invalid firmware version.
Lastly attempted to downgrade the stock firmware and use the old methods that worked prior for other users in the posts above from 2019. But alas even then it throws the incompatiable firmware from its own code.
R8000 incompatible firmware version, are you sure this is not R8000P? _________________ Netgear R7800 PPPoE Main Router
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After looking into this further, looks like it is a r8000p; listing said it was r8000 didn't bother to look at the serial since I didn't know there was a p version. Thanks sorry for wasting everyones time, kinda feel dumb now.
And the R8000P is not currently supported, and one problem is that the board IDs are different, but it is not suggested to hack this in any way. There is also the issue of hardware not being identical enough to take a chance.
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