Posted: Sun Jun 08, 2014 21:23 Post subject: r7000 won't update
I can't figure out for the life of me why this router won't apply any updates at all no matter what I do. I followed the directions on the wiki and various forum threads about doing a factory reset before applying (and after) and how I should perform a "30/30/30" before and after, clear my browser cache and use IE to apply the update, etc. Still, the router refuses to apply any update at all. It'll go through the process and the countdown notification will pop up telling me to wait 5 mins (299 seconds) and "act" like it's applying the update. However, the power led light won't blink like it's supposed to which informs me of a update in progress, and even after I wait for 5 mins and it reboots, it's still the same firmware that was on it before... what's going on? Am I stuck on this version forever? I am using version 23900m at the moment. The reason for the upgrade is because the router seems to take forever to restart after it crashes my net every so often so I thought upgrading to version 24200m or even 24170m might help, but I cant for the life of me get it apply any damn update at all lol. If anybody has anything that can help, that would be perfect... Thanks!
Posted: Sun Jun 08, 2014 22:01 Post subject: Re: r7000 won't update
asylum wrote:
I can't figure out for the life of me why this router won't apply any updates at all no matter what I do. I followed the directions on the wiki and various forum threads about doing a factory reset before applying (and after) and how I should perform a "30/30/30" before and after, clear my browser cache and use IE to apply the update, etc. Still, the router refuses to apply any update at all. It'll go through the process and the countdown notification will pop up telling me to wait 5 mins (299 seconds) and "act" like it's applying the update. However, the power led light won't blink like it's supposed to which informs me of a update in progress, and even after I wait for 5 mins and it reboots, it's still the same firmware that was on it before... what's going on? Am I stuck on this version forever? I am using version 23900m at the moment. The reason for the upgrade is because the router seems to take forever to restart after it crashes my net every so often so I thought upgrading to version 24200m or even 24170m might help, but I cant for the life of me get it apply any damn update at all lol. If anybody has anything that can help, that would be perfect... Thanks!
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I tried to flash build 24170m off of your website. I've tried both OLDD and STDD versions and neither will work. I was originally going to flash 24200m but then I realized it stated !!!Currently under test!!! so I didn't want that build.
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I tried to flash build 24170m off of your website. I've tried both OLDD and STDD versions and neither will work. I was originally going to flash 24200m but then I realized it stated !!!Currently under test!!! so I didn't want that build.
edit: this is what the led lights do when I attempt to install upgraded firmware to the unit. The power led lights up with both the white/orange leds at the same time giving off this pinkish color and the wan/wifi connections dont reset, i have googled this and i havn't found out what this means..
edit: this is what the led lights do when I attempt to install upgraded firmware to the unit. The power led lights up with both the white/orange leds at the same time giving off this pinkish color and the wan/wifi connections dont reset, i have googled this and i havn't found out what this means..
Well we have checked 2 things that the update routine checks before it actually writes the bin to the flash.
Thus I'm sure it tries to flash, but most likely hits a bad block in flash and then it will be stuck. Because before it flashes it stops all services you cannot access webif or ssh.
I'm afraid in that case you have a problem, did you try flashing oem firmware for the R7000, I think it is much smaller and there is a chance it fits before a bad block.
If you have a serial cable you can watch the output of the flash process, which will show bad block error when it hits one. _________________ KONG PB's: http://www.desipro.de/ddwrt/
KONG Info: http://tips.desipro.de/
tried the stock firmware but it wouldn't install that either. so... a RMA is out of the question.
I dont have a serial cable but I ran dmesg and it does show bad blocks:
Northstar brcmnand NAND Flash Controller driver, Version 0.1 (c) Broadcom Inc. 2012
NAND device: Manufacturer ID: 0xec, Chip ID: 0xf1 (Samsung NAND 128MiB 3,3V 8-bit), 128MiB, page size: 2048, OOB size: 64
Spare area=64 eccbytes 56, ecc bytes located at:
2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63
Available 7 bytes at (off,len):
(1,1) (16,2) (32,2) (48,2) (0,0) (0,0) (0,0) (0,0) (0,0) (0,0) (0,0) (0,0) (0,0) (0,0) (0,0) (0,0) (0,0) (0,0) (0,0) (0,0) (0,0) (0,0) (0,0) (0,0) (0,0) (0,0) (0,0) (0,0) (0,0) (0,0) (0,0) (0,0)
Driver must set ecc.strength when using hardware ECC
Scanning device for bad blocks
Bad eraseblock 89 at 0x000000b20000
Bad eraseblock 513 at 0x000004020000
Bad eraseblock 660 at 0x000005280000
Bad eraseblock 747 at 0x000005d60000
so... its now a frisbee/pellet gun target? lol
Well those badblocks from above are normal and not a problem, since these are included in the bad blocks table and therefore will be skipped by the write process.
What you could try is, erase the partition where the firmware sits, after you erased and rebooted the router it will start tftpd. The power light will blink and it waits for you to upload a new fw in *.chk format.
If that does not work either I would just rma it, as it is an obvious hardware failure then.
I can give you instructions via pm if you want, just don't want to post it here, others may have different problems and try this without exactly knowing what they are doing. _________________ KONG PB's: http://www.desipro.de/ddwrt/
KONG Info: http://tips.desipro.de/
I'm having the same issue with my R7000. I try to upgrade or downgrade and it simply says "upgrade failed"
And did you also overclock your unit. The debug info I got from asylum shows, that his unit has been overclocked, which obviously causes his strange behavior of corrupt mtd names.
I don't want to see any bugreports unless they are done with std cpu clock. I already told the folks over at myopenrouter, that it means nothing if the unit is able to boot with a higher clock, in my cpu and memtests, I saw several problems. Some units might run fine @1200Mhz, most don't and they produce errors e.g. with vpn connections.
P.S. A Resets through webif will not change the clkfreq, so if you overclocked it, then you have to set it back to default.
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Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2014 18:25 Post subject: R7000 Build 24500 Will Not Flash
I cannot flash the router after flashing to build 24500. The router is functioning fine, it just refuses to update and reports back the flash has failed. I have tried to tftp flash from 2 different pc's and also my MacBook pro. Still no love. Any suggestions? Thanks
Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2014 19:59 Post subject: Re: R7000 Build 24500 Will Not Flash
dugless wrote:
I cannot flash the router after flashing to build 24500. The router is functioning fine, it just refuses to update and reports back the flash has failed. I have tried to tftp flash from 2 different pc's and also my MacBook pro. Still no love. Any suggestions? Thanks
Which fw are you trying to flash? _________________ I am far from a guru, I'm barely a novice.