What do you mean saying - "rescue/recovery mode"

It seems to be SOLVED!

To get into rescue/recovery mode you hold the reset button while powering on the router. The lights slowly come on compared to turning it on without reset button. How you get out of this mode is beyond me without modifying the firmware and flashing that onto it.

Just as I said jimasek, it's undocumented, so I never knew this mode without searching for my problem and discovering other brands pretty much follow the same generic page and mode.

So if anyone does get stuck in this here's the steps to take:

Download the latest firmware for your router and extract the bin file.

Get yourself a hex editor and open up the bin file.

Note: This may only apply to TD-W8960N Ver 4.0
We need to remove all bytes between offset 0x0 (the start of the file) to 0x1FF (or 0x200?). You should have either binary 36 at the start now, or the number 6 in ASCII.

Set up your computer's network manually, e.g. IP: 192.168.1.10 NM: 255.255.255.0 GW: 192.168.1.1 DNS settings not needed.

Now open up your browser and go to: http://192.168.1.1 which should bring you to that update firmware page if you really are stuck in rescue/recovery mode.

Warning: All risks with updating firmware still apply.
Now just click the button to find your saved firmware and update it.

Let it take it's time, it suggests 2 minutes, but I gave it 5 minutes. Once that is done, you should notice the WiFi light has come back on.

Now hard reset the modem, hold it down for 4 or more seconds until all the lights flash and release it.

Let it do it's thing, then re-open 192.168.1.1 and login: admin/admin.

From here you should know what to do!

Cheers,

Trouble

trouble wrote

It seems to be SOLVED!
We need to remove all bytes between offset 0x0 (the start of the file) to 0x1FF (or 0x200?). You should have either binary 36 at the start now, or the number 6 in ASCII.

i'm just registered to say thank you.
it's also working for my td-w8950nd v2.
best wishes and many thanks.

trouble wrote

We need to remove all bytes between offset 0x0 (the start of the file) to 0x1FF (or 0x200?). You should have either binary 36 at the start now, or the number 6 in ASCII.

PS:
to make it easy, we can use dd utility
the command line will be the following:
[CODE]dd if=your_original_flash.bin of=your_recovery_flash.bin skip=1 bs=512[/CODE]
where
your_original_flash.bin - original firmware image
your_recovery_flash.bin - destination recovery image

Thanks, Thanks, Thanks, Thanks, days Looking for a solution downloading every firmware but nothing work until I found your FIX :)



Regards,

I'm just registered to say thank you