[a_n_d_y]

Hi, it’s not my first time to load dd-wrt on a router (I already done it on ASUS, Buffalo), but I’ve serious problems to get dd-wrt FW on my Linksys WRT1200AC v2 (see below), am I right with Revision 2?

I’ve done following steps:
- Downloaded dd-wrt FW 2018-08-09 - r36527
https://download1.dd-wrt.com/dd-wrtv2/downloads/betas/2018/08-09-2018-r36527/linksys-wrt1200acv2/factory-to-ddwrt.bin
- Uploaded the factory-to-ddwrt.bin under Connectivity
- After Upload following happened (see video), LEDs ale blinking suspicious -> not in that way as if I load a stock FW
https://streamable.com/zgcpq
-The upper boot cycle (see video) repeats 3 times, after that router boots in stock-FW and not dd-wrt!

I also tried following things without success:
- Tried 2018-07-16 r36330 and 2018-08-14 -r36596
- FW-upload in Win7 instead of Win 10
- FW-upload in Firefox instead of Vivaldi
- Tried all Lan Ports 1-4
- Tried other LAN cable
- Disabled Firewall
- Partition switching doesn’t work -> https://forum.dd-wrt.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=303130, same boot cycle as in video
- also tried to directly load ddwrt-linksys-wrt1200acv2-webflash.bin, router doesn’t boot. Then only “Hard reset” helped, then the router boots to Stock FW.

Specs:
Linksys WRT1200AC v2 (see image)
Stock FW: 2.0.5.187766

I hope you can help me, TNX!

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[a_n_d_y]

Meanwhile I find a solution, I did following:
- In Linksys stock-FW I loaded the older DD-WRT - v3.0-r35681 (2018-06-04)
- Router rebooted successfully in DD-WRT
- After that I was able to upgrade (ddwrt-linksys-wrt1200acv2-webflash.bin) the DD-WRT to - r36596 (2018-08-14)
-That’s it for my, now I’m happy 

That’s that temporary solution maybe it slsoo works by others, as it looks these ist a bus in the factory-to-ddwrt.bin after 2018-06-04

You can also take a look at following links:
https://forum.dd-wrt.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=311117&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=45
https://forum.dd-wrt.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=316009&sid=ca6560d0425d1734d97c568e1ac038f9

[nikolayg]

Hi andy,

I have the same issue as you. Where can I find the r35681 download link? The router database does not have it.

Thank you!
Nikolay

[nikolayg]

I found it: https://download1.dd-wrt.com/dd-wrtv2/downloads/betas/2018/04-06-2018-r35681/linksys-wrt1200acv2/factory-to-ddwrt.bin

and also https://download1.dd-wrt.com/dd-wrtv2/downloads/betas/2018/