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Topic: Is my TL-WR1043ND a brick now

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Hello,

I've tried to install DebWRT over my CC OpenWRT with MTD way (following instructions for my device on DebWRT website).

Unfortunately after firmware flash router keep restarting it looks like normal boot then all LEDs blink and procedure start again. Can't login to router and do nothing. Tried to failsafe mode with a reset button but nothing worked. Can I somehow install openwrt back on my device? Or now it's just a brick and I need a new one?

If you're lucky, tftp is enabled in your device's oem bootloader (it wasn't in the original batches, but retrofitted in later oem firmware updates) - if not, theonly option would be to recover from a serial console.The wiki should have hints for both options.

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