eDIY - TP-Link TL-MR3020 restore from OpenWRT to Original Firmware

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Saturday, 29 December 2012 21:58

TP-Link TL-MR3020 restore from OpenWRT to Original Firmware

If you had flashing the TP-Link MR3020 firmware to OpenWRT and now you want to restore it to the original state, here is a guide on how to make it. With this guide you will able to changing between original firmware to different version OpenWRT firmware.

Download

Download the orignal firmware from TP-Link home page

Changing OpenWRT password and enable SSH

If you haven't change the OpenWRT password, make sure you had change it in order to enable SSH

Go to Windows command prompt
Enter telnet 192.168.1.1 (this is the default IP address for OpenWRT, you should use your own IP address)
Enter passwd to enable new password
Enter your new password and Retype your password, you should see the following

[email protected]:/# passwd

Changing password for root

New password:

Retype password:

Password for root changed by root

Copying Original Firmware file to TL-MR3020 router

I'm using WinSCP to copying Original Firmware file from computer to TL-MR3020 router, please visit here if you don't know what is WinSCP.

Extract the downloaded Zip file to your computer, you should have mr3020nv1_en_3_14_2_up(120817).bin in your computer
Open WinSCP
Copy TL-MR3020 Original Firmware file mr3020nv1_en_3_14_2_up(120817).bin from computer to the /tmp folder of TL-MR3020 router as shown in figure below

Rename the TL-3020 Original Firmware file mr3020nv1_en_3_14_2_up(120817).bin to a.bin for easy entering in the later step
Now the TL-MR3020 router /tmp folder have a filename called a.bin, you should flash this bin file to the TL-MR3020 router.

Flashing the Firmware

Once SSH is enable, you should use PuTTY to login to router.