@Marvin_S 

Hello

There are several TP-Link articles about accessing a recovery option on routers, including these:

How to use firmware recovery on the Pharos products | TP-Link

How to recover the router when it bricked | TP-Link

So surely it should be possible to do with this one as well ?

If I press the reset button and power on this router it doesn't actually then power on at all.  I then need to power it back off and on again.  Just pressing reset on its own just does a normal reset and it goes back to the ISP settings.   Is there a different sequence of button presses for this model to get into recovery mode ?

Thanks

  @Marvin_S 

Yes I know those articles are for other models but I was just referencing them as examples that TP-Link have provided instructions to do this for other models. It's not as if it's a "hack" that TP-Link don't support.   So I don't know why it's not possible to do this for this model,  even if it has a custom firmware. The custom firmware must have been installed in the first place somehow.   As far as I know the whole point of the recovery option is to revert or recover back to a standard firmware and setup for the router.