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Using Uboot to Debrick

Your Router
You may brick your router if you were doing some DIY projects or ashed a wrong rmware. You are not able
to access your router but you can re-install the rmware by using Uboot failsafe.

Please follow the procedures below to access the Uboot Web UI and re-install the rmware:

1. Connect
Connect only one cable to your router, and leave the other port (LAN or WAN) unconnected.

2. Press and Hold

Press and hold the Reset button rmly rst, and then power on your device. Must obey the rst and then
procedure.

3. Lights
The LEDs will start blinking.

4. Release
Release your nger when you see the LEDs ashing: - 5 times for GL-AR150 and GL-AR300M16

3 times for GL-MT300N, GL-MT300A, and GL-B1300

5. Set IP
Set your computer’s IP address to 192.168.1.2 (see the cap-screen of Win 7 below)

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6. Enter Web UI
User Firefox or Chrome to visit http://192.168.1.1 (http://192.168.1.1). Then you will enter Uboot Web UI.

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7. Update
Click Choose File to nd the rmware. Then click Update rmware. You can download the rmware here:
http://download.gl-inet.com/ rmware/ (http://download.gl-inet.com/ rmware/)

8. Upgrading
Wait for around 3 minutes. Don’t power off your device while upgrading. Revert the IP setting you did in step 5
and you will be able to access the router via 192.168.8.1 again.

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Dario Vernelli • a year ago

Hi, I'm trying to debrik the GL-Mini 4G router, but it seems that
the procedure doesn't work. I'm pressing the reset button and
the switching on the router. The led under 3g/4g is blinking 10
times. On my pc there is 192.168.1.2/24 as IP address but I
can't connect to the router. Where I'm doing wrong ?
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Gordon Shawn • 2 months ago

On one of my MT300A I could no longer connect to 192.168.1.1
after holding the reset button (it used to work), I connected a
serial cable to the board, at baudrate 115200 (or other lower
speed) it gave me all those strange characters
"5��������녅�", is this board totally dead?
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Gordon Shawn > Gordon Shawn • 2 months ago

reply to my own post, the problem is that my serial port
cable is bad, after changing it the serial port works now.
sorry for the noise.
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hiteck30 • 9 months ago

Hello, I'm stuck in step 6 I can't get to access to the WEB ui.
Have you got a soluce for me please
Thanks
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Chris • a year ago

Hello,

It seems I bricked my AR300m. :-(

I used uboot to update the firmware. Unfortunately, instead of
the img file I uploaded
the tar file. After that the router still booted with Nor and I had
access to it. So now I tried to update with the correct img file.
Since
then nothing works anymore. I still can boot into the uboot
mode.
However, none of the updates works....

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Any idea what I can do to fix the issue???

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alzhao Mod > Chris • a year ago

When did you bought this? If it is broken then reflash
generally solve the problem. So you tried multiple times
and cannot solve, pls contact customer service.
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Chris > alzhao • a year ago

It is from last year.
Actually, I could finally solve the problem. I
updated the nor firmware instead of the nand
firmware this time with uboot. After trying to
connect by three times in the browser the nor
version came up and I updated the nor firmware
again by uploading it inside of the browser
application. At the end it asked for a reboot and
then the nand version came up automatically
again. Great product! :-)
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Steven Caskey • a year ago

Does this guide work with official lede from https://openwrt.org/ ?
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alzhao Mod > Steven Caskey • a year ago

Yes it works. Be sure to get the correct firmware for each
model.
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algreen1231 • a year ago • edited

Updated ar-150 to 2.27 firmware and stopped to work. Resetted
to default but cannot connect to 192.168.8.1 login page
(firefox,Opera).
Set my ubuntu ip to 192.168.8.2 but nothing to do. Connected to
LAN but no login!?
Any suggestion please?
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Alfie Jianbin Zhao > algreen1231 • a year ago

Can you pls check the video https://docs.gl-inet.com/en...

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Are you doing the same? For AR150, when you want to
enter uboot web failsafe. Please note, when the LED
flash 5 times and another LED light up, release your
finger.
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algreen1231 > Alfie Jianbin Zhao • a year ago

Route cmd output. :(

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algreen1231 > Alfie Jianbin Zhao

• a year ago • edited
Hi, did exactly as video. nothing to do. I tested on
win10 too. 2 green led on. Cannot open uboot
page.
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algreen1231 > Alfie Jianbin Zhao • a year ago

Hi,
S i 1 l d 5 d l d bli k ?

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Sequence is 1 green power led, 5 red led blinks?

If it's so I did it. I'll try again and let you know.
Regards
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Matt Dyzio • a year ago • edited

Please try other browsers if you are stuck or it isn't working .I've
had a problem using chrome had to use edge in the end.
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Kiril • a year ago

Hello,

I obviously bricked my GL-AR750 and run into failures when

trying to follow your procedure.

I'm pressing the reset (power-symbol) button and powering the

device.

Then all 3 LED flash up very briefly. The Power-LED remains on

while 2G starts flashing for 5 times. 5G remains off.

My PC is set to IP address 192.168.1.2 and I can connect to the

device with Firefox on 192.168.1.1.

I select the downloaded Image "lede-ar750-2.272.bin" from

http://download.gl-inet.com.... But when I press the "Update nor
firmware" button Firefox is giving me a "Connection Interrupted"
error. So I never see the progress-interface as shown on the u-
boot tutorial here: https://github.com/pepe2k/u.... The power-
LED remains on, while the 2G-LED is turned off, the moment I
press the upload-button.

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