Posted: Sat Feb 12, 2022 0:59 Post subject: R7000 on chk build, all UI's crash soon after reboot
It's a new-to-me Netgear R7000.
Flashed the r47925 .chk file successfully.
Boots up and asks for new login username/password
Shortly after saving that change the web gui stops responding.
It's still responding to ping, still broadcasting the SSID, so it's not completely bricked. I can use the web GUI to start to flash an older .bin release, but the GUI crashes about 10 seconds into that, and the load doesn't complete.
I can also get a telnet login prompt during the same time, but usual login defaults don't work, and that also stops working when the web GUI stops working.
So it looks like I'm trying to tftp another build, but what build is safe?
Are you certifying that this build does not have the problem I mentioned on the R7000? The chk build I installed was from December 2021, so 2/11/22 is not much newer.
That is what build threads are for, see r48305. Don't see a diffuculty here with TFTP recovery it doesn't matter.
You said GUI crashed & Telnet too. r47925 has no reported issues how do you expect to certify your hardware?
Besides if you have been following build threads you would have known already bugs have been recently fixed.
Last time I needed to tftp a build to a router was 2016.
And now, with this one, tftp attempts from multiple client apps are failing to send anything. I see the router ping with 100 ttl and hit send on the tftp client with the r48305 build file selected. It shows sending while it continues to ping at 100 ttl for 10-15 seconds and then ping stops responding, then shortly after that pings with a 64 ttl, and the tftp client reports that sending failed. Windows firewall is disabled. Was hoping to avoid a console cable recovery. Any advice?
Thanks, that was pretty easy to use, but having now flashed r48305 and erased nvram, it's behaving the same. Not sure where else to go except flash a Netgear build and return it for a refund at my shipping cost. What a waste of time.