Please help unbrick my E3000 and E2000

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mr_chen
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PostPosted: Sun Jun 10, 2012 21:52    Post subject: Unbrick hard bricked (no ping) Linksys E3000 via serial conn Reply with quote
There is a great post on unbricking E3000 via serial port: http://www.lukemacneil.com/2011/10/02/unbrick-hard-bricked-no-ping-linksys-e3000-via-serial-connection.
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 17, 2012 22:21    Post subject: GRRRR!!! Reply with quote
This is really bizarre, I woke up this morning and 2 of my 3 WDS e3000 just have blinking power light.
Try the serial recovery and got some reply as below but impossible to stop it with CTRL C, it just keeps rolling and rolling. Any idea guys?

CFE version 1.0.37 for BCM947XX (32bit,SP,LE)
Build Date: Thu Oct 21 12:10:06 CST 2010 (lzh@team2-complier)
Copyright (C) 2000-2008 Broadcom Corporation.

Init Arena
Init Devs.

No DPN
This is a Parallel Flash
Boot partition size = 262144(0x40000)
CPU type 0x19740: 133MHz
Tot mem: 65536 KBytes

CFE mem: 0x80700000 - 0x8079DAC0 (645824)
Data: 0x80732A20 - 0x80737080 (18016)
BSS: 0x80737080 - 0x80737AC0 (2624)
Heap: 0x80737AC0 - 0x8079BAC0 (409600)
Stack: 0x8079BAC0 - 0x8079DAC0 (8192)
Text: 0x80700000 - 0x80732A1C (207388)

Boot version: v4.2
The boot is CFE

mac_init(): Find mac [68:7F:74:12:C7:1E] in location 0
Nothing...
country_init(): Find country code in location 0
The country is same
**Exception 8: EPC=80715648, Cause=80008008 (TLBMissRd)
RA=80715650, VAddr=0000000C

0 ($00) = 00000000 AT ($01) = 80730000
v0 ($02) = 00000000 v1 ($03) = 00000000
a0 ($04) = 80738C80 a1 ($05) = 8072CAB9
a2 ($06) = 00000001 a3 ($07) = 00000005
t0 ($0Cool = 00000000 t1 ($09) = 00000000
t2 ($10) = 807322B0 t3 ($11) = 00000000
t4 ($12) = 00000000 t5 ($13) = 48534C46
t6 ($14) = 9FC036BC t7 ($15) = BFF2FECF
s0 ($16) = 00000000 s1 ($17) = 00000000
s2 ($1Cool = 8072CA8C s3 ($19) = 8072CA68
s4 ($20) = 8079D880 s5 ($21) = 8079D880
s6 ($22) = 00004716 s7 ($23) = 00000001
t8 ($24) = 04000000 t9 ($25) = 00000000
k0 ($26) = FFFFFFFF k1 ($27) = FFFFFFFF
gp ($2Cool = 8073AA20 sp ($29) = 8079D858
fp ($30) = 00000000 ra ($31) = 80715650

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PostPosted: Thu Oct 18, 2012 1:00    Post subject: Re: GRRRR!!! Reply with quote
evrycard wrote:
This is really bizarre, I woke up this morning and 2 of my 3 WDS e3000 just have blinking power light.
Try the serial recovery and got some reply as below but impossible to stop it with CTRL C, it just keeps rolling and rolling. Any idea guys?

CFE version 1.0.37 for BCM947XX (32bit,SP,LE)
Build Date: Thu Oct 21 12:10:06 CST 2010 (lzh@team2-complier)
Copyright (C) 2000-2008 Broadcom Corporation.

Init Arena
Init Devs.

No DPN
This is a Parallel Flash
Boot partition size = 262144(0x40000)
CPU type 0x19740: 133MHz
Tot mem: 65536 KBytes

CFE mem: 0x80700000 - 0x8079DAC0 (645824)
Data: 0x80732A20 - 0x80737080 (18016)
BSS: 0x80737080 - 0x80737AC0 (2624)
Heap: 0x80737AC0 - 0x8079BAC0 (409600)
Stack: 0x8079BAC0 - 0x8079DAC0 (8192)
Text: 0x80700000 - 0x80732A1C (207388)

Boot version: v4.2
The boot is CFE

mac_init(): Find mac [68:7F:74:12:C7:1E] in location 0
Nothing...
country_init(): Find country code in location 0
The country is same
**Exception 8: EPC=80715648, Cause=80008008 (TLBMissRd)
RA=80715650, VAddr=0000000C

0 ($00) = 00000000 AT ($01) = 80730000
v0 ($02) = 00000000 v1 ($03) = 00000000
a0 ($04) = 80738C80 a1 ($05) = 8072CAB9
a2 ($06) = 00000001 a3 ($07) = 00000005
t0 ($0Cool = 00000000 t1 ($09) = 00000000
t2 ($10) = 807322B0 t3 ($11) = 00000000
t4 ($12) = 00000000 t5 ($13) = 48534C46
t6 ($14) = 9FC036BC t7 ($15) = BFF2FECF
s0 ($16) = 00000000 s1 ($17) = 00000000
s2 ($1Cool = 8072CA8C s3 ($19) = 8072CA68
s4 ($20) = 8079D880 s5 ($21) = 8079D880
s6 ($22) = 00004716 s7 ($23) = 00000001
t8 ($24) = 04000000 t9 ($25) = 00000000
k0 ($26) = FFFFFFFF k1 ($27) = FFFFFFFF
gp ($2Cool = 8073AA20 sp ($29) = 8079D858
fp ($30) = 00000000 ra ($31) = 80715650


Make sure your cable is hooked up correctly. You have to hook the cable's tx to the router's rx and cable's rx to the router's tx.

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PostPosted: Thu Oct 18, 2012 3:13    Post subject: Reply with quote
The cables are correctly hooked.
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PostPosted: Fri Oct 19, 2012 13:09    Post subject: Reply with quote
You need to be faster.
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PostPosted: Sat Oct 20, 2012 6:33    Post subject: Reply with quote
Hmmm... I will a try again. But darn how fast can I be??? Evil or Very Mad
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PostPosted: Sat Oct 20, 2012 22:18    Post subject: Somone who can help unbrick wrt-610n in Greater Toronto Area Reply with quote
To make a long story short, I managed to convert my wrt-610n v2 to E3000 with the instructions found here, you guys really rock. <del>Then I followed the E3000 wiki and flashed the big firmware linked there. What a mistake!</del>(It's my own mistake, I downloaded the big image for wrt-610n v2, but my router has become an E3000 at that moment. I wish I was more careful, now it's too late). Now my wrt-610n v2 is bricked, and I tried everything suggested: timing the reset button, open it up and short the 8&9 pins, as well as the steps to tftp then flash wirelessly.
Nothing worked so far, so I think the only last resort for me is tht jtag. The problem is I don't know how-to.
Please, please, please...can someone from GTA kindly help a follow dd-wrter? A small fee will shold be ok 2.
Thans.
Rob


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PostPosted: Sat Oct 20, 2012 23:49    Post subject: Re: Somone who can help unbrick wrt-610n in Greater Toronto Reply with quote
TorontoFish wrote:
To make a long story short, I managed to convert my wrt-610n v2 to E3000 with the instructions found here, you guys really rock. Then I followed the E3000 wiki and flashed the big firmware linked there. What a mistake! Now my wrt-610n v2 is bricked, and I tried everything suggested: timing the reset button, open it up and short the 8&9 pins, as well as the steps to tftp then flash wirelessly.
Nothing worked so far, so I think the only last resort for me is tht jtag. The problem is I don't know how-to.
Please, please, please...can someone from GTA kindly help a follow dd-wrter? A small fee will shold be ok 2.
Thans.
Rob


Which big build linked in the E3000 wiki did you flash? Being that i wrote a BIG chunk of that wiki, i do not recall ever linking a big build in the instructions..

Number 2, if you had converted your unit to an E3000 then how could you have bricked your WRT610N v2? After the conversion, you would no longer have a WRT610N v2, you would've had an E3000.. You didn't flash a BIG build meant for the WRT610N v2 onto your converted E3000, did you?

And the info will be important to know, de-brickers will want to know EXACTLY what happened.

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PostPosted: Sun Oct 21, 2012 0:44    Post subject: Re: Somone who can help unbrick wrt-610n in Greater Toronto Reply with quote
buddee wrote:
TorontoFish wrote:
To make a long story short, I managed to convert my wrt-610n v2 to E3000 with the instructions found here, you guys really rock. Then I followed the E3000 wiki and flashed the big firmware linked there. What a mistake! Now my wrt-610n v2 is bricked, and I tried everything suggested: timing the reset button, open it up and short the 8&9 pins, as well as the steps to tftp then flash wirelessly.
Nothing worked so far, so I think the only last resort for me is tht jtag. The problem is I don't know how-to.
Please, please, please...can someone from GTA kindly help a follow dd-wrter? A small fee will shold be ok 2.
Thans.
Rob


Which big build linked in the E3000 wiki did you flash? Being that i wrote a BIG chunk of that wiki, i do not recall ever linking a big build in the instructions..

Number 2, if you had converted your unit to an E3000 then how could you have bricked your WRT610N v2? After the conversion, you would no longer have a WRT610N v2, you would've had an E3000.. You didn't flash a BIG build meant for the WRT610N v2 onto your converted E3000, did you?

And the info will be important to know, de-brickers will want to know EXACTLY what happened.


You are 1000% right. Stupid me tried to flash a 610n image onto an already converted wrt-610n v2 (it's already an E3000 at that point). The wiki I followed was the wrt-610n v2 wiki.
Please don't be bothered by my silly comments about wiki. I was my mistake.
I am sorry.
Finally, thank you for the excellent work you have done for dd-wrt wiki. (I don't want to see other people make the same mistake, can we add some where on wrt-610n wiki in red: if you have converted the unit to an E3000, please follow the E3000 wiki here).
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PostPosted: Sun Oct 21, 2012 1:53    Post subject: Reply with quote
I still can't CTRL C. Sad
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PostPosted: Sun Oct 21, 2012 1:57    Post subject: Reply with quote
Possibly could be added as a redundant warning, though its covered many times, i'll try add it later at some point.

But as a future warning in general: if you convert your router from original to something else, it will no longer be in its original state, so you can no longer use the original instructions for what the unit once was..because it is no longer that.

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PostPosted: Sun Oct 21, 2012 2:01    Post subject: Reply with quote
evrycard wrote:
I still can't CTRL C. Sad


have you performed a 30-30-30 reset prior to trying the serial connection? the CFE output doesn't look right no matter how you slice it, thats why i thought your cable is not hooked up correctly. even not being able to ctrl-c in time shouldn't have a CFE output looking like that (it should still look normal, which this does not) main times i have seen output look like that is either when the cable isn't hooked correctly, or a 30-30-30 wasn't performed or both..

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PostPosted: Thu Oct 25, 2012 20:33    Post subject: No one from GTA? Reply with quote
So no one from GTA can do JTag on my bricked wrt-610n? Or is it because I have tried pin short a few times?
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PostPosted: Wed Nov 28, 2012 22:25    Post subject: Reply with quote
....aaaaand I bricked my e3000.

After updating firmware over wireless (absolutely fine!) multiple times, updating via VPN to the router that was the VPN host (safe as houses!) on al sorts of occasions, I go ahead and upload the mega build without the NV60K extention.

Now, to find a RS232/TTL level converter...
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 29, 2012 0:50    Post subject: Reply with quote
p_shep wrote:
....aaaaand I bricked my e3000.

After updating firmware over wireless (absolutely fine!) multiple times, updating via VPN to the router that was the VPN host (safe as houses!) on al sorts of occasions, I go ahead and upload the mega build without the NV60K extention.

Now, to find a RS232/TTL level converter...


CA-42 clone cables are what i always use. Very cheap and easy to find on ebay or amazon, most times around $5-$7 a piece.

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