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Two nights ago I accidentally bricked my router by flashing the original firmware over openWRT
firmware on the MR3020.
WARNING:If you want to flash the original firmware remove the boot part from the
firmware.
After quick google, I came across this page.It was had all of the instructions i needed to fix my
bricked router. Unfortunately it required some extra hardware especially a usb to serial
convertor, soldering iron and some headers.It had been more than 1 year that i soldered
anything(Last time being in college).I had the necessary resistors leftover from my arduino
project.
I took apart the router and found out the necessary pins for the header.Now it was time to
solder.Moreover the openWRT website also had the pin layout with the necessary details of the
pins.
1234
TX RX GND VCC
All I had to do was connect the 10K resistor from the TX pin to the VCC pin.The connection to
the usb device was also simple. RX -> TX TX -> RX GRND -> GRND
MR3020
IMG_0778
IMG_0779
Time to flash the firmware.I had to run a tftpd server on my machine and a serial connection to
the device.I tried running the device at 56000 bits.It didnt work all gibberish on the screen.After
the reading the instructions again.I had to set the bit rate to about 115200.Once that was
done.The text was legible.Once the autobooting text came up on the screen I had to type
tpl(Note sure why but that was some sort of ‘open sesame’ for the bootloader developers).Then
i ran the following commands.
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done
hornet> bootm 9f020000
Once this was done the router was back from the dead ready for some more tweaking.
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