TP-LINK TL-SG108E Bricked during firmware Upgrade
TP-LINK TL-SG108E Bricked during firmware Upgrade
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I think my device its bricked, firmware upgrade fails for no reason (no outage or poweroff computer ). Cronology was the next: "Easy smart configuration utility" warn me about firmware upgrade, I downloaded and start the procedure, unzip file with winrar, select firmware updgrade, choose file and start, after some seconds i see the message "firmware upgrade fails for unknow reason" and say to upgrade from web.
Now, all lights are off, reset button don't do anything, and Easy smart configuration utility doesnt find any device, obviusly there are not any web in switch ip
I try to restart with no result. Device works like a dumb switch without lights.
Any advice after to claim RMA??, this unit have only one day.
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rockryan wrote
Hi Raxor,
So have you made a replacement or refund or sth else? Did TP-LINK reply you?
I was claim RMA and store send me a replacement unit.
was pccomponentes in Spain.
I do not open any support ticket from TP-LINK, only this thread.
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And as you receive the new switch from RMA you do again the update over ESCU or over the browser?
I open now a support ticket, lets see what TP-LINK saying about this bug.
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I realize this problem isn't the same as the one from this thread: I have hardware revision 2.0, and I didn't see a "Firmware upgrade failed" message. Google brought me to this thread when I was trying to figure out my issue, though, so I want to let other people who run into the same thing know that their switch isn't bricked--there is a web interface on version 2.0 at least.
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i can see it is an old post, but never the less for ppl with the same problem. here is a fix that worked for me.
It also happend to me after upgrading.
it seems that i was wrong with the equipment model. mine was sg108pe (UN) VER 2.0
and i upgraded with firmware for sg108e (UN) VER 2.0
the only difference is the P, well after I upgraded agian from the web interface all was fixed
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I also had the same issue today, with version 4, and vanished from the config tool, I noted that my DHCP network is not the standard 192.168.0.xxx. (its actually a strange 10.0.5.xxx range) so thus I disconnected the switch, and my laptop from office network, simply plugged in directly, and set a static IP address on my laptop to 192.168.0.100
I was thus able to get to the web interface on 192.168.0.1 which immediately presented me with a firmware upgrade message request, so was able to browse for the new firmware I had on local drive, then it upgraded OK.
After this, and plugging back into my main office network it picked up the new DHCP address, and the Config tool was able to find it.
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@raxor I have in the end been able to achieve a good result on a BRICKED SG108E v1.
Before you start, step 2 is probably better on a Linux machine to achive NMAP scan over the sw 192.168.0.1
- Configure network interface with an IP on the same subnet
IP = 192.168.0.10
NETMASK = 255.255.255.0
GW = 192.168.0.1
( after that, try to ping to switch ip 192.168.0.1 if you reach the host, continue to next step )
2. From linux machine, execute this command (install it if you don't have: sudo apt install nmap)
3. Once you are done, execute: sudo nmap -Pn -sS -sV 192.168.0.1
4. With the results on screen you can see something like this:
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PORT STATE SERVICE VERSION
80/tcp open http
1 service unrecognized despite returning data. If you know the service/version, please submit the following fingerprint at https://nmap.org/cgi-bin/submit.cgi?new-service :
SF-Port80-TCP:V=7.80%I=7%D=10/30%Time=5F9C8F79%P=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu%r(Get
SF:Request,28C,"HTTP/1\.1\x20200\x20OK\r\nConnection:\x20close\r\nContent-
SF:Type:\x20text/html\r\n\r\n<html\x20style=\"display:none\">\n<head>\n<me
SF:ta\x20HTTP-EQUIV=\"Content-Type\"\x20CONTENT=\"text/html;\x20charset=bi
SF:g5\">\n<title>TP-LINK\x20Web-Smart\x20Switch</title>\n</head>\n<framese
SF:t\x20cols=\"0,\x20250,\*\">\n<frame\x20name=\"hidden_frame\"\x20framebo
SF:rder=\"0\"\x20src=\"hidden\.cgi\"\x20>\n<frame\x20name=\"menu-frame\"\x
SF:20target=\"main-frame\"\x20src=\"menu\.cgi\"\x20>\n<frameset\x20rows=\"
SF:130,\*\"><frame\x20name=\"panel-frame\"\x20scrolling=\"no\"\x20src=\"pa
SF:nel\.cgi\"\x20noresize>\n<frame\x20name=\"main-frame\"\x20src=\"info\.c
SF:gi\"\x20noresize>\n<noframes>\n<body\x20style=\"display:none\">\n<p>Thi
SF:s\x20page\x20uses\x20frames,\x20but\x20the\x20browser\x20does\x20not\x2
SF:0support\x20them\.</p>\n</body>\n</noframes>\n</frameset>\n</html>\n")%
SF:r(FourOhFourRequest,1B5,"HTTP/1\.1\x20200\x20OK\r\nConnection:\x20close
SF:\r\nContent-Type:\x20text/html\r\n\r\n<html>\n\n<head>\n<title>Reset</t
SF:itle>\n<link\x20rel=\"stylesheet\"\x20type=\"text/css\"\x20href=\"/styl
SF:e\.css\">\n</head>\n\n<body>\n<center>\n\n<fieldset>\n<legend>Loader\x2
SF:0Mode</legend>\n\x20\x20<b\x20style=\"font-weight:normal;font-family:\x
SF:20Geneva,\x20Arial,\x20Helvetica,\x20sans-serif;letter-spacing:\.45pt\"
SF:>Firmware\x20upgrade\x20mode\.\x20Please\x20upload\x20your\x20image\x20
SF:by\x20TFTP\x20or\x20HTTP\x20\n\x20\x20<p>\n</fieldset>\n\n</center>\n</
SF:body>\n</html>\n\0");
MAC Address: 30:B5:C2:XX:YY:ZZ (Tp-link Technologies)
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5. As you can see, there is some pages on the switch HTTP server. If you try to connect on http://192.168.0.1 you will not see anything BUT
6. You can enter on one of those pages like that
http://192.168.0.1/menu.cgi
7. Now you are able to upload the firmware by two methods, TFTP or HTTP (easy way = http)
8. When you select HTTP Firmware Upgrade, select "browse file" and choose the correct firmware.
9. You are DONE, wait a few minutes and you can loging through Easy Smart Configuration Utility again.
NOTE: Is mandatory that SW will be on "Loader Mode" you can check for example trying to access to http://192.168.0.1/login.html and see that
Hope this help to everybody to bring back to live a TP-LINK SG108E (in my case V1)
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