[SOLVED] Unbricked R6250 stuck with R6250-V1.0.1.84_1.0.78

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tinbilly
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PostPosted: Wed Jun 03, 2020 6:53    Post subject: [SOLVED] Unbricked R6250 stuck with R6250-V1.0.1.84_1.0.78 Reply with quote
I messed around with my R6250 flashing back and forth from tomato back to Genie to dd-wrt, then bricked it. Finally, I managed to unbrick my router following the instructions at https://midnightme.com/2015/03/16/how-to-unbrick-or-fix-a-netgear-ac1450-router/, except for

- Step 12: I set up a ftpd server using ftpd64 on my laptop with IP address 192.168.1.5

- Step 13: I put the R6250-back-to-ofw.trx from Tomato to the router using the following commands
CFE> flash -noheader 192.168.1.5:R6250-back-to-ofw.trx nflash1.trx
CFE> go

(btw, for step 13 I tried many other firmwares like the Genie initial release 1.0.0.62, dd-wrt, open-wrt, advancedtomato, but none of these were accepted by the router.)

Now my R6250 was back to Genie and functioned well, but stuck with R6250-back-to-ofw from Tomato (= R6250-V1.0.1.84_1.0.78.) I have tried to update to many other Genie versions, or switched to dd-wrt, openwrt, tomato but failed.

Any advise is much appreciated.


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PostPosted: Wed Jun 03, 2020 14:25    Post subject: Reply with quote
https://www.myopenrouter.com/article/how-debrick-or-recover-netgear-r7000-r6300v2-or-r6250-wi-fi-routers

Use the tftpd command at the CFE prompt. Other way is to put it into recovery mode via reset button.

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PostPosted: Wed Jun 03, 2020 14:50    Post subject: Reply with quote
the problem may be the R6250-back-to-ofw.trx firmware you used to restore originally, from memory you have to leave the user name blank on initial login then factory reset from gui.

personally i would connect serial back up, break boot to cfe and force an old version of stock firmware with tftp.
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PostPosted: Wed Jun 03, 2020 17:23    Post subject: [RESOLVED] Unbricked R6250 stuck with R6250-V1.0.1.84_1.0.78 Reply with quote
Many thanks for the advise.

Turned out the router's Board ID was incorrect. I followed this post https://www.myopenrouter.com/forum/changing-board-id-charter-edition-r6300v2-dd-wrt-firmware to correct the Board ID. Then everything is fine now.
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