Flashed W8961ND with W8961N firmware and cannot flash back

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Flashed W8961ND with W8961N firmware and cannot flash back
Flashed W8961ND with W8961N firmware and cannot flash back
2015-05-05 23:40:57
Region : Others

Model : TD-W8961ND

Hardware Version : V3

Firmware Version :

ISP :


Hello all. I accidentally flashed the TD-W8961N_V1_141023 firmware on my TD-W8961ND WiFi modem router. It was not rejected for some reason, but now I can't flash back to the firmware which was originally present on my router (and is in fact the altest one :) ) TD-W8961ND_V3_140305 .

I've tried in Internet Explorer 11 on W7 and on Firefox 37 and I get the message that the file was rejected by the router or something similar. I've tried telneting to it and disabling the modelcheck and it didn't help (but I didn't turn off the router after disabling it via telnet so I don't know if I skipped a necessary step).

Or the problem is perhaps that my original firmware has a lower version number and it's not allowed to downgrade? Is there a way to get around this? Maybe by editing the firmware bin file and changing the version number?

I've also read about how older TP-Link routers had a TFTP recovery mode so I installed Wireshark and listened on the LAN communication after holding the reset or WPS switches for a while, but I noticed no broadcast by the router on the ARP interface asking for the TFTP server IP location.

Is there anything I can do? Like, flash it to an older W8961N firmware and then try to flash my W8961ND?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I have to note that the basic functionality is still there so I presume the firmwares are not too different, but still. My DSL connection is bugged as it is so I'd like to take the potential router issues out of the picture before I focus on other parts.
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Re:Flashed W8961ND with W8961N firmware and cannot flash back
2015-05-06 11:44:14
It is noted on TP-LINK website that TD-W8961ND_V3_140305 cannot be downgraded...
There is no way to make it...
Now with the firmware 140305, your modem is still running? Can you reconfigure it to work?
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Re:Flashed W8961ND with W8961N firmware and cannot flash back
2015-05-06 20:41:58

Tony Seaford wrote

It is noted on TP-LINK website that TD-W8961ND_V3_140305 cannot be downgraded...
There is no way to make it... Now with the firmware 140305, your modem is still running? Can you reconfigure it to work?


OK, but that's not my problem. My model is W8961ND and it HAD TD-W8961ND_V3_140305. What I did was uploaded TD-W8961N_V1_141023 on it and now cannot upload back the TD-W8961ND_V3_140305 :)

The router more or less works, but has some issues, like the speed bogs down pretty much and all so I don't know whether it's the router itself or the wrong firmware.
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Re:Flashed W8961ND with W8961N firmware and cannot flash back
2015-05-07 14:58:28
Sorry but I misunderstand it...in a opposite way... lol
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Re:Flashed W8961ND with W8961N firmware and cannot flash back
2015-05-07 17:16:03

Tony Seaford wrote

Sorry but I misunderstand it...in a opposite way... lol


Yeah :)

Still, is there no recovery mode for these models which would search for a proxy server to download the firmware file? Were these things disabled as part of these security concerns or what? Perhaps there are some other telnet commands that could help with these firmware restrictions?
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