NETGEAR R6300 BRECIKED OR SOFT BRICKED?

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addpinto
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PostPosted: Tue Jan 07, 2014 23:21    Post subject: NETGEAR R6300 BRECIKED OR SOFT BRICKED? Reply with quote
Hello guys.... I need a lot help, please.

I have a R6300 Netgear Router; it was working fine for the past 6 months with dd-wrt.v24-K3_AC_22200 build.
For some reason I had to reset thne router last night and now it's messup...
I was able to flash stock firmware back into it; then I install DD-WRT v24-sp2 (02/25/13) mega 41M build.... dummy me (file from myopenrouter.com)

I need to go back to dd-wrt.v24-K3_AC_22200.

I'm able to connect and ping the router with no loss (TTL=64) but I'm unable to update the firmware from the webgui (it fails 100%); I also tried TFTP, SSH, Telnet all with no success either.

Router is on with a solid yellow light.
Please help
Thanks
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 08, 2014 0:43    Post subject: Reply with quote
check out tftp recovery.

first, hook up to the router by WIRED ETHERNET in case you already havent. do not power on the router yet.

first thing i would try though, is get tftp2, set it to flash FACTORY STOCK FIRMWARE, routers ip (try 192.168.1.1 first), number of tries to 10, and then click upgrade.

now power on the router and wait until you see upgrade flash. if you see "Upgrading Firmware", give it another 3 minutes or until all lights are well lit.

if this dosent work, you will need to do a serial recovery.

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PostPosted: Thu Jan 09, 2014 2:06    Post subject: Reply with quote
tftp recovery did not work.... Sad

so each one would be easier? jatag or serial recovery?

I open the router and I see 6 pins that looks like is for jtag.... right next from that I also see a square with 10 empty holes(connectors) which I'm guessing for a serial connection...

If I go with serial I would have to solder 10 pins....

Also there's no marks for any pins (grn, 3.3, tx, etc)

Can I buy this http://www.ebay.com/itm/310742466145 and use with the header with 6 pins on it?

Thanks
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 09, 2014 2:22    Post subject: Reply with quote
addpinto wrote:
tftp recovery did not work.... Sad

so each one would be easier? jatag or serial recovery?

I open the router and I see 6 pins that looks like is for jtag.... right next from that I also see a square with 10 empty holes(connectors) which I'm guessing for a serial connection...

If I go with serial I would have to solder 10 pins....

Also there's no marks for any pins (grn, 3.3, tx, etc)

Can I buy this http://www.ebay.com/itm/310742466145 and use with the header with 6 pins on it?

Thanks


where did you get that idea? serial is 6 pins and jtag is 10 pins.

you will need to get the pins for SERIAL recovery. which is the 6 pins you see. and you will need to solder.

usually when i solder some pins on a pcb like a router, i put the pins in the hole and tape them down with black tape making sure that the pins are balanced and all standing straight. makes it easier for me to solder on the other side of the board because if i didnt tape them down, then they would fall out.

make sense? if not, i can show you a picture of what i mean.

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PostPosted: Thu Jan 09, 2014 2:24    Post subject: Reply with quote
You've got it backwards. Scroll to the bottom of this page.
http://wikidevi.com/wiki/Netgear_R6300_v1

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addpinto
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 10, 2014 0:36    Post subject: Reply with quote
Malachi wrote:
You've got it backwards. Scroll to the bottom of this page.
http://wikidevi.com/wiki/Netgear_R6300_v1


Ok, so I looked the bottom of the page, it says:


J251
(GND) (RX) (TX) (3.3V)
pin6 pin5 pin4 pin3 pin2 pin1

But if I look my router (pic below) the J252 has 6 pins and the J251 has no pins but it has 10 holes.

My guess is that on my router I should use the J252 pins, right?

If so, can I buy this and use it with the serial instructions? (http://www.ebay.com/itm/310742466145)

and no soldering, right?



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PostPosted: Fri Jan 10, 2014 1:26    Post subject: Reply with quote
No soldering required. That looks like the serial port.
I just looked at Kong's picture at myopenrouter. His is just like yours. Wikidevi must be wrong.

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addpinto
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 10, 2014 1:31    Post subject: Reply with quote
Thanks... let me order the piece. I'll post the updates.
addpinto
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 17, 2014 1:01    Post subject: updates... Reply with quote
Can't get to stop at the CFE prompt... I can see the boot log; just having problems to stoped...
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 17, 2014 1:02    Post subject: Reply with quote
will you send us log from the cfe? or show us what your seeing?
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addpinto
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 17, 2014 1:05    Post subject: Reply with quote
below is the log:

It looks like is not complete....

Decompressing...done


CFE for R6300 version: v1.0.2
Build Date: Wed Apr 25 16:29:10 CST 2012
Init Arena
Init Devs.
Boot partition size = 262144(0x40000)
Found an ST compatible serial flash with 32 64KB blocks; total size 2MB
Found a Samsung NAND flash with 2048B pages or 128KB blocks; total size 128MB
et0: Broadcom BCM47XX 10/100/1000 Mbps Ethernet Controller 5.100.138
CPU type 0x19749: 600MHz
Tot mem: 131072 KBytes

Device eth0: hwaddr 84-1B-5E-EF-D3-9F, ipaddr 192.168.1.1, mask 255.255.255.0
gateway not set, nameserver not set
Checking crc...Loader:raw Filesys:raw Dev:nflash0.os File: Options:(null)
Loading: ...... 3259964 bytes read
Entry at 0x80001000
Closing network.
Starting program at 0x80001000
Linux version 2.6.24.111 (root@dcw-15.alumnus.co.in) (gcc version 4.1.2) #223 PREEMPT Mon Feb 25 19:10:11 IST 2013
CPU revision is: 00019749
Found an ST compatible serial flash with 32 64KB blocks; total size 2MB
Determined physical RAM map:
memory: 07fff000 @ 00000000 (usable)
Zone PFN ranges:
Normal 0 -> 32767
HighMem 32767 -> 32767
Movable zone start PFN for each node
early_node_map[1] active PFN ranges
0: 0 -> 32767
Built 1 zonelists in Zone order. Total pages: 32767
Kernel command line: console=ttyS0,115200 root=1f07 rootfstype=squashfs noinitrd
Primary instruction cache 32kB, physically tagged, 4-way, linesize 32 bytes.
Primary data cache 32kB, 4-way, linesize 32 bytes.
Synthesized TLB refill handler (20 instructions).
Synthesized TLB load handler fastpath (32 instructions).
Synthesized TLB store handler fastpath (32 instructions).
Synthesized TLB modify handler fastpath (31 instructions).
PID hash table entries: 512 (order: 9, 2048 bytes)
CPU: BCM5300 rev 1 at 600 MHz
Using 300.000 MHz high precision timer.
console [ttyS0] enabled
Dentry cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)
Memory: 125936k/131068k available (2618k kernel code, 4972k reserved, 366k data, 196k init, 0k highmem)
Mount-cache hash table entries: 512
NET: Registered protocol family 16
Generic PHY: Registered new driver
PCI: Initializing host
PCI: Reset RC
addpinto
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 17, 2014 1:14    Post subject: Reply with quote
I followed this:
J252
(3.3) (TxD) (...) (...) (RxD) (GND)
Pin1 Pin2 Pin3 Pin4 Pin5 Pin6


but it doesn't read with 3.3v so I'm using 5v.

any ideas? shouild I slow down from 115200?

thanks
addpinto
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 17, 2014 1:33    Post subject: Reply with quote
ok got it!! had to be really really fast... but I got it11

So I did nvram erase and hit enter .... then I got this: *** comand status = 0

is that it?
I just have to flash the new file now thru the tftp?
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 17, 2014 1:41    Post subject: Reply with quote
After that type: flash -noheader : nflash1.trx. Then enter. I use tftpd32 by journin or tftp2.exe to push the firmware.
It should then upload it. Keep watching the console, when it's done, type Go. The router will reboot and should be fixed.

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Gameman Advanced Kid
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 17, 2014 1:59    Post subject: Reply with quote
Malachi wrote:
After that type: flash -noheader : nflash1.trx. Then enter. I use tftpd32 by journin or tftp2.exe to push the firmware.
It should then upload it. Keep watching the console, when it's done, type Go. The router will reboot and should be fixed.


isnt it the other way?

i would set tftp2 to retry 10 times, set firmware (that has been renamed to nflash1.trx), and then click upload. then i would go over to the router and type the command. works every time on my side of things.

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Internet connection 2
Ubiquiti Powerbeam Gen 2 > Netgear R9000

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