TENDA W311R - Bad flash recover and Install dd-wrt firmware!

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easyyu
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PostPosted: Mon Jan 28, 2013 4:14    Post subject: Re: Can someone help me? Reply with quote
TendaW311R+ wrote:


Another idea: watch booting from putty and try to connect Tenda to another router/computer and see if there is difference in bootlog

I tried but same..
Btw LAN connection is not needed for UART connection, just after I load U-BOOT for sending firmware!
Any other tip?
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TendaW311R+
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PostPosted: Mon Jan 28, 2013 20:18    Post subject: Re: Can someone help me? Reply with quote
easyyu wrote:
TendaW311R+ wrote:


Another idea: watch booting from putty and try to connect Tenda to another router/computer and see if there is difference in bootlog

I tried but same..
Btw LAN connection is not needed for UART connection, just after I load U-BOOT for sending firmware!
Any other tip?

Sorry, I have not got any ideas. Wait for another opinions
Bali213
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 08, 2013 7:36    Post subject: Re: Can someone help me? Reply with quote
TendaW311R+ wrote:
easyyu wrote:
TendaW311R+ wrote:

The post about resistors is in first page of this topic. I think that there is dead chip and you can use router only as a switch. Try to connect some port of router to another router and see if the second router 'see' the mac address of Tenda.

Ok..I found the story about resistors.
As I understand he only need it to get 3.3V, but he doesn't describe why he used it, which value he used!
Can anyone tell me something abot this?


Another idea: watch booting from putty and try to connect Tenda to another router/computer and see if there is difference in bootlog


Thank you for your suggestion, I will try tonight or tomorrow

tenda router
reluare
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PostPosted: Sun Sep 01, 2013 14:06    Post subject: TendaW311R + Reply with quote
Hi, I'm the owner of a TendaW311R + router that does not work. I need to tell me if you can and if you know which points tx and rx where I can connect a TTL converter and reinstate him. I attach a picture if it helps. hardware version is 2.0 and are marked dots called TP1 to TP8, probably meant tp test point. thanks in advance
RogFanther
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PostPosted: Sun Sep 01, 2013 21:34    Post subject: Reply with quote
Look at the pics at first post of the thread. Then read through it about the recovery methods.

Also, note diferences between 311R and 311R+ firmwares. You need to download the correct one for your router.
reluare
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 02, 2013 18:12    Post subject: Reply with quote
RogFanther wrote:
Look at the pics at first post of the thread. Then read through it about the recovery methods.

Also, note diferences between 311R and 311R+ firmwares. You need to download the correct one for your router.


The problem is that the motherboard W311R is very different from the W311R + and I can not figure out where to connect Rx and Tx. I'll put some pictures, can someone tell which is
RogFanther
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 02, 2013 18:42    Post subject: Reply with quote
Yes, that is a new revision of the 311R+. Version 1.x had Ralink chipset, and after its fiasco, Tenda changed to a Broadcom chip. It would be better if they had changed the model name also.

The board I have in my notes is different, with holes for a serial connector near the flash. Yours could be a newer revision .

I would bet in the TP1 and TP2, and would venture the other five ( without holes in them ) are jtag.

Also, you can can take this route http://rayer.g6.cz/elektro/spipgm.htm and reprogram the flash itself.

One other possibility : this thing uses CFE ( at least mine used ) . Fix some ip like 192.168.1.9 in your computer, start a continuous ping to 192.168.1.1, and turn on the router with the reset button pressed.

If after about 10s ( may be more, may be less ) it stabilizes and keeps answering to ping requests, you can try accessing http://192.168.1.1 and uploading the firmware from there.
TendaW311R+
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 02, 2013 22:53    Post subject: Reply with quote
This is newer chipset version as RogFanther said. Look at this http://www.kaldata.com/forums/topic/206576-%D0%BA%D0%B0%D0%BA-%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B0%D0%B2%D0%B0-%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B0-tftp-%D1%81%D0%B2%D1%8A%D1%80%D0%B7%D0%B2%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B5/page-2 it can be helpful read the topic carefully. If you need more help just ask. If you do not understand something just ask and I will translate is because it is my maternal language and this posts of DD-WRT are mine Very Happy

TRY THIS http://wiki.openwrt.org/doc/hardware/port.serial#digital.multimeter.method

RogFanther, can you give me more information about your router (model, firmware)? Thanks for your help and patience for me and my Tenda. The router is died because I did not how to solder but now I know and do it very good. I know new things which are unprisable for me. And I am pretty sure that I can unbrick another router. I did MAX3232 and MAX232 circuits and they works and waiting for bricked routers Very Happy . Thanks again my friend ! Very Happy
RogFanther
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 02, 2013 23:20    Post subject: Reply with quote
The v2.0 is Broadcom based, with the intention of avoiding all the problems the Ralink ones presented. Mine had a place for soldering a 0.1" header for the serial connection, near the flash memory. It was of the first ones to be produced, probably. His doesn´t, seems they substituted it for those test points.

I do not remember firmware version, at the time there was only one version at the homepage for the v2 series.
TendaW311R+
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 02, 2013 23:36    Post subject: Reply with quote
Did you connect serial interface ? I asked you because I think that speed must be 115200 8n1 no flow control
TendaW311R+
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 02, 2013 23:50    Post subject: Reply with quote
Did you connect serial interface ? I asked you because I think that speed must be 115200 8n1 no flow control

EDIT: here are my adapters with max3232 and max232 https://forum.openwrt.org/viewtopic.php?id=45632&p=2
I used max3232 SMD for TH Very Happy
RogFanther
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 03, 2013 0:28    Post subject: Reply with quote
115200 8N1.
I do not have my notes with me now, can look tomorrow.

The forum of openwrt is not opening now, I will take a look at it later.


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RogFanther
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 03, 2013 16:51    Post subject: Reply with quote
From my old written notes :

Pinout : VCc - TX - RX - GND
115200 8N1

CFE version 5.10.56.68 1.0.37 for BCM947x

Flash 2MB, Memory 8MB

Cpu type 0x19749 332Mhz

eCOS Router/AP 5.70.56.19

CPU is a Broadcom BCM 5356A1 KFBG
Flash Winbond 25C16
Ram Etrontech EM638165TS

equipment is similar to W316R also.
reluare
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 09, 2013 15:19    Post subject: TendaW311R + hardware version 2.0 broadcom chipset Reply with quote
I found the two points, rx and tx were marked with TP1 and TP 2, I connected a USB-UART from a nokia 6030, I opened putty and I powered the router. I received the following message

"Decompressing...done


CFE version 5.100.138.3 based on BBP 1.0.37 for BCM947XX (32bit,SP,LE)
Build Date: 2011-05-26 10:33:50 4 (richard@aeteam.com)
Copyright (C) 2000-2008 Broadcom Corporation.

Init Arena
Init Devs.
Boot partition size = 131072(0x20000)
Found an ST compatible serial flash with 32 64KB blocks; total size 2MB
et0: Broadcom BCM47XX 10/100/1000 Mbps Ethernet Controller 5.100.138.3
CPU type 0x19749: 300MHz
Tot mem: 8192 KBytes

CFE mem: 0x80700000 - 0x80798550 (623952)
Data: 0x8072E3A0 - 0x807315C0 (12832)
BSS: 0x807315C0 - 0x80732550 (3984)
Heap: 0x80732550 - 0x80796550 (409600)
Stack: 0x80796550 - 0x80798550 (8192)
Text: 0x80700000 - 0x8072E39C (189340)

Device eth0: hwaddr C8-3A-35-07-20-D0, ipaddr 192.168.1.1, mask 255.255.255.0
gateway not set, nameserver not set
Loader:raw Filesys:raw Dev:flash0.os File: Options:(null)
Loading: .... 2168216 bytes read
Entry at 0x80001000
Closing network.
Starting program at 0x80001000

Any ideas ? I tried to press the 2 key during startup, but nothing happened, probably not the correct thing for this chipset
RogFanther
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 09, 2013 15:33    Post subject: Reply with quote
Post the complete boot log until it stops or give an error.

It runs with a Broadcom chipset, the process is diferent. Try switching it on with the reset button pressed and see if it stops at the CFE> prompt.
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