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torobull123
join:2009-06-20

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Re: Bricked WRT54GL v1.1. Toronto repair shop?

would anyone recommend this for a n00b?

»www.ebay.ca/itm/JTAG-Cab ··· 0wt_1397
singerie3
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join:2008-10-12
Montreal, QC

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it shouldn't be too hard to put it on the router board, even if you have to solder it. but the whole jtag process... i'm not sure.

check the tftp method before. i managed to unbrick a router by doing that.

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torobull123
join:2009-06-20

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said by torobull123:

would anyone recommend this for a n00b?

»www.ebay.ca/itm/JTAG-Cab ··· 0wt_1397

The seller says that his provides a super easy De-bricking Repair guide.

What do you think?
mlord
join:2006-11-05
Kanata, ON

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I have his kit. It is easy for me, but I'm quite used to fiddling with embedded systems and firmware, and soldering. As in, that's a big part of what I do for a living.

torobull123
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said by mlord:

I have his kit. It is easy for me, but I'm quite used to fiddling with embedded systems and firmware, and soldering. As in, that's a big part of what I do for a living.

Can you tell me the software that is used with this package?

Did it work for you?

Will this work in the case that i flashed the router with the WRONG firmware. As the tjtag method only seems to do a nvram reset and not a firmware .bin reflash.
mlord
join:2006-11-05
Kanata, ON

mlord

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said by torobull123:

Can you tell me the software that is used with this package? Did it work for you?

Will this work in the case that i flashed the router with the WRONG firmware. As the tjtag method only seems to do a nvram reset and not a firmware .bin reflash?

The JTAG can be used to debrick anything that got messed up, EXCEPT if the processor has been overclocked incorrectly --> recovering from that is trickier, because the clock speed is set very very early during initialization. It is possible though, by shorting pins on the flash chip temporarily.

I think I used tjtag3-0-1 under Linux. The MS-Windows version didn't work as well when I tried it. This was all 2 years ago.