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| ====== Rescue from failed firmware upgrade ====== | ====== Rescue from failed firmware upgrade ====== | ||
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| **RECOMMENDED: | **RECOMMENDED: | ||
| - | That's what will most likely help you if you can't reach the OpenWrt interface anymore\\ | + | That's what will most likely help you if you can't reach the OpenWrt interface anymore after installing packages, changing the password or the network configuration. |
| - | after installing packages, changing the password or the network configuration. | + | |
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| Some device vendors provide built-in rescue functions in their device' | Some device vendors provide built-in rescue functions in their device' | ||
| - | This rescue functions can be used to recover a failed flash update (no matter if the failed flash was vendor firmware or OpenWrt) or recover from an otherwise dead device, as long as the device hardware and the rescue function is still intact. These rescue partitions do consume a tiny piece of the flash, but renders a device mostly unbrickable. | + | These rescue functions can be used to recover a failed flash update (no matter if the failed flash was vendor firmware or OpenWrt) or recover from an otherwise dead device, as long as the device hardware and the rescue function is still intact. These rescue partitions do consume a tiny piece of the flash, but renders a device mostly unbrickable. |
| Unfortunately such rescue functions are not available from all vendors, sometimes not for all models from a vendor and the actual rescue process is mostly vendor specific. | Unfortunately such rescue functions are not available from all vendors, sometimes not for all models from a vendor and the actual rescue process is mostly vendor specific. | ||
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| ===== Manufacturer-generic firmware recovery procedures ===== | ===== Manufacturer-generic firmware recovery procedures ===== | ||
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| Many devices of the following manufacturers support a recovery procedures as listed here: | Many devices of the following manufacturers support a recovery procedures as listed here: | ||
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| | Mikrotik | | Mikrotik | ||
| | Netgear | | Netgear | ||
| - | | TP-Link | + | |:::| nmrpflash | https:// |
| + | | TP-Link | ||
| | ::: | Webpage firmware recovery\\ See link for models which support this method. | [[https:// | | ::: | Webpage firmware recovery\\ See link for models which support this method. | [[https:// | ||
| | Ubiquiti (UBNT) | TFTP on a PC client can be used to rescue the firmware. | [[https:// | | Ubiquiti (UBNT) | TFTP on a PC client can be used to rescue the firmware. | [[https:// | ||
| | Xiaomi | | Xiaomi | ||
| | ZBT (ZBTLink) | Several devices support a [[# | | ZBT (ZBTLink) | Several devices support a [[# | ||
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| ===== Recovery for disk-image-based devices (e.g. SD-cards) ===== | ===== Recovery for disk-image-based devices (e.g. SD-cards) ===== | ||
| Examples: the different Raspberry PI's, devices of PC Engines). | Examples: the different Raspberry PI's, devices of PC Engines). | ||
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| ===== TFTP recovery mode ===== | ===== TFTP recovery mode ===== | ||
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| In several of these recovery procedures you will need a working TFTP server on your PC, see how to install and configure it in [[docs: | In several of these recovery procedures you will need a working TFTP server on your PC, see how to install and configure it in [[docs: | ||
| ===== Rescue USB stick ===== | ===== Rescue USB stick ===== | ||
| - | Supported by some Xiaomi devices | + | Supported by some Xiaomi devices process for [[http:// |
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| - | process for [[http:// | + | |
| - Download firmware and store as '' | - Download firmware and store as '' | ||
| - Plug USB flash drive into device USB port | - Plug USB flash drive into device USB port | ||