Recent content by alexyw

Thanks for the info. Bay Area Tech was exactly the instruction I used. I successfully followed through the steps and flashed my router to AC68P. But after the router was forcefully reverted to 3199 from an failed attempt of flashing Merlin .42, the Bay Tech methods don't work any longer. I can...

I've been looking around in the forum but have yet found the fix...I'm not sure where it is posted. Could you please kindly point the direction?

Thanks. I followed pretty much the same instructions and get my router flashed to AC68P successfully. Problem came up when I tried to flash latest Merlin. Some kind of protection Asus put in the fw forced the router to revert to TM firmware. And the protection is apparently against any further...

Just realized a possible mistaken in my steps. CFE should not be uploaded through mini CFE interface. The original CFE need to be uploaded through SSH, right? My current firmware does not support SSH.... I feel like I'm in a dead end.

Good point! I still have the original CFE. Never thought about uploading that one. so this is my understanding 1) upload the original CFE through mini CFE interface 2) if that worked, flash the TM-AC1900_3.0.0.4_376_1703-g0ffdbba firmware. Thanks! I'll give it a try and see if it could fix the lock

Very Sneaky... BTW I found the CFE dumps thread. It will be my weekend project to re write the CFE and flash to AC68p

I don't know how Asus did it... but multiple owners who have tried to flash the latest Merlin run into the issue. FW was reverted back to TM and CFE was locked down. Of course, I'm one of those poor users.

Thanks so much. That could be the great save!

Hi John, I searched the thread but couldn't find too much information about flash your custom FW on the Tmobile AC1900.... I recently got the router, flashed it to AC68P initially, and mysteriously got reverted back to latest Tmobile FW after attempting to flash Merlin. It seems Asus has also...

Okay.. I have to admit Asus has all the reason and maybe the rights too to do so.... so basically I can't downgrade it to 1703 anymore. And flash it to AC68U just became a mission impossible. I'll look for John's fork and see how far that could get me to.

Sorry to bump up this old post. I'm desperately in need for help with the newly purchased (refurbished) TM AC1900. I was able to follow Alex's Instruction (from Bay Area Tech Pros) and flashed the router to AC68P. Everything worked until…....I tried to flash the latest Merlin while a external...