Archer AX23 Firmware recovery
Unfortunately there was a thread about this already but it's been locked despite being recent. [ https://community.tp-link.com/en/home/forum/topic/707640 ]
As a preamble over time I've given up on almost every feature this router advertised. The webUI is terrible, limited, nothing works as expected,. support says they will get back to you, doesn't...so I decided to risk Open-WRT. It works for the most part and has the features I'd want save for one glaring issue, the WAN stops working every so often. Nothing in the syslog or dmesg. I can't find anything to sus out what's happening. So I had decided to continue the trend I've been following which was given up on the advertised features and just port forward to another machine to do the thing this router was supposed to be able to do.
This leads me to the post. The de-bricking instructions don't work. You get the recovery page, upload the firmware and once it hits 100% there is a super fast unreadable flash and then the page is as it started. Just the small blurb and input to select/upload the firmware.
One of the key points of the previous topic [ https://community.tp-link.com/en/home/forum/topic/707640 ] was [ https://github.com/argsnd/tp-link-stock-firmware-converter ] which one of the posters said worked for them. However for me all it does is spit out a file named sysupgrade.bin of 0k. I've tried from the link, I've built from source, I've tried in more than one browser. Browser console output might suggest it's not finding the partition structure it expects. I've also tried older bin.
Might someone have some insight on the correct way to strip the official firmwares? Reading docs and searching is just a circle of warnings of outdated info, wrong info, vague info...a real swell time to be sure!
