Posted: Mon Feb 08, 2021 17:12 Post subject: TP link WR1043ND v1 firmware upgrade fail
Hello how are you? I come to this place to ask for help from those who know. I am new using the DD WRT firmware, I have been using version v3.0 R40559 for a few months on my router tp link WR1043ND V1, It worked well for me but with some disconnection or buffbload failures in repeater mode so I saw a new version of R45690 dated 02/06/2021 and decided to install it to see if there was a new funsion cake in the QOS and to my surprise when proceeding with the Installation just waiting for 2 minutes of installation after 5 seconds elapse the router restarts and with the supposed correct installation and when seeing the installed version it shows me the same old one, it does not allow me to install new versions or the factory version. try the webrevert file and the same thing happens.
There is only two ways to update this router, at least for me.
1 Installation of Breed uboot and flash firmware via webui of Breed.
2 Merge factory-to-ddwrt.bin with uboot and make fullflash from Telnet or SSH.
root@DD-WRT:~# cd /tmp
root@DD-WRT:/tmp# wget ftp://ftp.dd-wrt.com/betas/2021/02-11-2021-r45735/tplink_tl-wr1043nd/tl-wr1043nd-webflash.bin
Connecting to ftp.dd-wrt.com (185.84.6.100:21)
saving to 'tl-wr1043nd-webflash.bin'
tl-wr1043nd-webflash 100% |************************************************************************| 7872k 0:00:00 ETA
'tl-wr1043nd-webflash.bin' saved
root@DD-WRT:/tmp# write tl-wr1043nd-webflash.bin linux
Image too big for partition: linux
linux: Invalid argument
root@DD-WRT:~# cd /tmp
root@DD-WRT:/tmp# wget ftp://ftp.dd-wrt.com/betas/2021/02-11-2021-r45735/tplink_tl-wr1043nd/tl-wr1043nd-webflash.bin
Connecting to ftp.dd-wrt.com (185.84.6.100:21)
saving to 'tl-wr1043nd-webflash.bin'
tl-wr1043nd-webflash 100% |************************************************************************| 7872k 0:00:00 ETA
'tl-wr1043nd-webflash.bin' saved
root@DD-WRT:/tmp# write tl-wr1043nd-webflash.bin linux
Image too big for partition: linux
linux: Invalid argument
The folder with just wr1043nd in the name is for v1.x. As long as it is a v1.0 through v1.8 (I don't recall a v1.9?), then the wr1043nd folder applies.
ok i have the correct version firmware rember i install first the r40599 and now i cant upgrade to another version or back to the main sofware. i notice sometime today after of the first try with telnet now my device have an AVG of 4.8 or 5mb free but before of the first try with telnet i see an AVG of 9mb or 11mb free memory. i dont know after the Writte step fail i need to use another command to clean the memory because i just close the window and do 2 or 3 factory reset in the ui and button reset on the back of the device.
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Posted: Fri Apr 09, 2021 15:39 Post subject:
I was trying to remember how to flash it via CLI and I'm not sure if it could be that you need to flash it to a different location?
I think for the TL-WR1043ND (at least the v1.8 ), it may need to be fullflash and not linux?
At least when I look in here, they reference fullflash but I could be very wrong here since you are doing certain steps to correct an issue with flashing.