PurpleHaze

Hi thank you, I think it will need to be desoldered flashed and resolsdered. Managed to find another one second had. GPT is mighty helpful but you need to be careful with stuff like this as I believe that's incorrect. I dont believe the clip would get under the chip? I have a very similar soic 8 clip that I might test fit to compare. Thanks 😊

The chip is if anyone wants to know, at least on mine is a MXICx174514 30uf2618AC-XOI 8C374700 Its under the big heat sync on the bottom held in place by dimples, can be tricky to open. This requires a nand flash not SPI, so support may be limited, unfortunately you can (I don't think) get a flash clip onto it. Will require desoldering and flashing best done by a professional experienced micro solder.

Good idea thanks for that. Might be worth a shot.

Yeah I tried a lot, pretty disappointed in myself as I feel like as tho the reset was hanging I did interrupt it or do something wrong. I tried with ftpd64 and the nmrpflash but the no URAT (to me anyway) suggest that the uboot is corrupted and I don't think tftpd will be a an option at this stage as it's not getting to the sage where it can take it. I messaged a couple repair shops that do spi flashing and hopefully one can just reflash the right chip. I got a soic 8 clip from another project but I don't think it will be much help? Your not able to provide info on the chip that stores the uboot that would need a reflash are you? Cause it would probably be cheaper for me if I can tell them/ point then in the right direction of what chip needs to be done. Hopefully they don't need to pull one from an another XR500 cause I would then need to pay to source it. They still fetch $200+ here 150+ second hand with postage was hoping illd find a cheap one to save the hassle of sending it off.

I decided to factory reset it and give it one more go, I done it from the GUI (I assume this was my mistake) it did nothing for agers but flashed lights so tried to do it from the reset button again did nothing. After around what felt like an hour powered down the router and powered it back up but now I only get a USB light and if the eth cable is in the eth light. Think I bricked it? Can't flash with tftpd, opened it up to get at the j1 pins and I have no serial output either so I assume it's not even attempting a boot because the interrupted factory reset? I'm assuming the USB light means nothing not that it wants a usb connection or firmware on USB?

Yeah they could be my devices, I have looked up the MACs but off the top of my head they were generic or not much help, not reputable or identifiable vendors most of my connections are accounted for. Fing didn't even name them all. I do have a strong wifi password, but it's on the sticker on the modem so the unwanted guests that were in my house when I was not may have put stuff around? Unsure but just playing it safe. And for the moment? Does that mean there will be more updates in the future? I assumed they had stopped them, also a reason for the change as if there is exploits that need to be fixed I don't want to be on old unpatched software. Oh that's good to know about the XR500, I assumed it was maybe a prototype kind of thing that's why Netgear has forgotten about it. If the XR500 has the most stable firmware, and all of a sudden a reboot stopped my hybrid VPN from working then I would say ouch, Netgear need to get their stuff together. Although saying that appart from the hybrid VPN it's pretty stable, I have had issues in the past but none recently enough to pull off the top of my head. It will be a shame to leave the dumaOS behind but it's just too much of an annoyance having to turn off the VPN every time I want to reboot it, then back on. I had rebooted a heap of times even on D3 and never had this issue, the other thing is if it crashes then I might have to factory reset it again just to get the VPN working. Like I said I'm still undecided, is there anyway to enable ssh from telnet? I see dropbear is stripped from the modem and opkg won't update or install anything. Or even just restart r apps from telnet? Because as of right now the pros of switching are seeming to outweigh the pros of staying.

Yeah they could be my devices, I have looked up the MACs but off the top of my head they were generic or not much help, not reputable or identifiable vendors most of my connections are accounted for. Fing didn't even name them all. I do have a strong wifi password, but it's on the sticker on the modem so the unwanted guests that were in my house when I was not may have put stuff around? Unsure but just playing it safe. And for the moment? Does that mean there will be more updates in the future? I assumed they had stopped them, also a reason for the change as if there is exploits that need to be fixed I don't want to be on old unpatched software. Oh that's good to know about the XR500, I assumed it was maybe a prototype kind of thing that's why Netgear has forgotten about it. If the XR500 has the most stable firmware, and all of a sudden a reboot stopped my hybrid VPN from working then I would say ouch, Netgear need to get their stuff together. Although saying that appart from the hybrid VPN it's pretty stable, I have had issues in the past but none recently enough to pull off the top of my head. It will be a shame to leave the dumaOS behind but it's just too much of an annoyance having to turn off the VPN every time I want to reboot it, then back on. I had rebooted a heap of times even on D3 and never had this issue, the other thing is if it crashes then I might have to factory reset it again just to get the VPN working. Like I said I'm still undecided, is there anyway to enable ssh from telnet? I see dropbear is stripped from the modem and opkg won't update or install anything. Or even just restart r apps from telnet? Because as of right now the pros of switching are seeming to outweigh the pros of staying. Another thing is, unsure how many updates ago it was there was/used to be an option to disable WPS. Is there anyway to disable WPS on the stock firmware that I missed it over looked? I don't like it being enabled because you can get pixie attacked etc...

Thanks for the response. Oh true, I just used telnet-enable.py from GitHub, was able to update the VPN server stuff from there, haven't tried it but I used to get real old style configs with settings that are not recommended now. Yeah not taking to long is a bit subjective and it's more the amount of times I have had to do it that makes it a pain because allot of my devices come up as unknown and there is like 2 or 3 I want to keep blocked because I can't ID them, then set up D-DNS and this and that. Not to mention I like to keep 2 or 3 devices on my network blocked because I can't ID them, had unwanted guests so it's not worth the risk. And thanks I have read it's a bit of a nightmare to get back to DumaOS but it's just the fact every time something goes wrong the answer is to factory reset. The only reason I use the router is for the VPN and if it's going to potentially break after every reboot or crash I can't see the point sticking with it. A shame in a way was pretty happy with the beta and the ad blocker. With OpenWRT if I end up going down that path I will get more frequent updates and no offense but probably better support than just "factory reset" at every hiccup and way better VPN anyway, probably even stop that occasional DNS leak I sometimes still get. I still have my XR1000v2 that I was super hyped for years ago when I ordered it untill I set it up and it didn't have HybridVPN so I can use that if I really want DumaOS but I was just going to use that to run a security system cause it's faster wifi ect. Are you able to give me a comparison of the XR1000 and XR500? Also correct me if I'm wrong but the XR500 is the same as the R7800 right?

After messing around in telnet for ages found the life with hybrid VPN enable true set it to false, no luck tried getting it to start manually via the cli no luck I decided to bite the bullet, factory reset the modem but when I loaded my back up same problem I guess I'll have to go through all the trouble of setting it back up manually. This is a shame, a good modem but bad software. I have a R1000v1 but as far as I know no VPN support. Considering flashing an alternative firmware as Netgear are not really about customer support. Just over the factory resets everytime something goes wrong but appart from that pretty happy with the rest of the modem.

There is no other way? First time this has happened to me normally rebooting the modem has no issues for me. I'm getting over the factory resets every time aiming goes wrong. I made a back up config but when opened in note pad it all seemed like Chinese text, is it corrupted? Can I start it again with telnet? More logs [DumaOS] Giving up restarting 'com.netdumasoftware.hybridvpn', Monday, June 23, 2025 02:18:18 [DumaOS] ---- rapp end com.netdumasoftware.hybridvpn, #cstack 0 #res 0, flushing, Monday, June 23, 2025 02:18:18 [DumaOS] Some of the cleanup calls for com.netdumasoftware.hybridvpn failed., Monday, June 23, 2025 02:18:15 [DumaOS] ---- rapp end com.netdumasoftware.hybridvpn, #cstack 12 #res 12, flushing, Monday, June 23, 2025 02:18:15 [DumaOS] Exception caught in cleanup 'com.netdumasoftware.hybridvpn': ERROR: Rule not found in chain stack traceback: ^I?: in f,nction '__new__' ^I?: in function '?' ^I?: in function <?:469> ^I(tail call): ? ^I?: in function 'long_call' ^I?: in function '?' ^I?: in function '?' ^I?: in function '?' ^I?: in function 'cleanup' ^I?: in function 'cleanup' ^I?: in function '?' ^I?: in function <?:458> ^I[C]: in function 'xpcall' ^I?: in function 'try' ^I?: in function <?:455> ^I?: in function 'try' ^I?: in function <?:268> ^I(tail call): ? ^I?: in function <?:39> ^I[C]: in function 'xpcall' ^I?: in main chunk ^I[C]: ? Monday, June 23, 2025 02:18:15 [DumaOS] Long call 'del_rule' exception 'ERROR: Rule not found in chain stack traceback: ^I?: in function '__new__' ^I?: in fun,tion '?' ^I?: in function <?:469> ^I(tail call): ? ^I?: in main chunk ^I[C]: in function 'require' ^I?: in main chunk ^I[C]: in function 'require' ^I?: in main chunk ^I?: in function <?:268> ^I(tail call): ? ^I?: in function <?:39> ^I[C]: in function 'xpcall' ^I?: in main chunk ^I[C]: ?' Monday, June 23, 2025 02:18:15 [DumaOS] Exception caught in 'com.netdumasoftware.hybridvpn': ERROR: Rule not found in chain stack traceback: ^I?: in function ,__new__' ^I?: in function '?' ^I?: in function <?:469> ^I(tail call): ? ^I?: in function 'long_call' ^I?: in function '?' ^I?: in function '?' ^I?: in function 'add_ns' ^I?: in function 'init' ^I?: in function 'init' ^I?: in function '?' ^I?: in function <?:427> ^I[C]: in function 'xpcall' ^I?: in function 'try' ^I?: in function <?:268> ^I(tail call): ? ^I?: in function <?:39> ^I[C]: in function 'xpcall' ^I?: in main chunk ^I[C]: ? Monday, June 23, 2025 02:18:15 [DumaOS] Long call 'del_rule' exception 'ERROR: Rule not found in chain stack traceback: ^I?: in function '__new__' ^I?: in fun,tion '?' ^I?: in function <?:469> ^I(tail call): ? ^I?: in main chunk ^I[C]: in function 'require' ^I?: in main chunk ^I[C]: in function 'require' ^I?: in main chunk ^I?: in function <?:268> ^I(tail call): ? ^I?: in function <?:39> ^I[C]: in function 'xpcall' ^I?: in main chunk ^I[C]: ?' Monday, June 23, 2025 02:18:15 [DumaOS] subscribe to 'com.netdumasoftware.devicemanager' from 'com.netdumasoftware.hybridvpn', Monday, June 23, 2025 02:18:13

Do you mean reset to factory settings? I haven't had this issue before normally I never turn it off.

Thanks for the reply normally I get an email or notification when I get a response, maybe I missed it but no problem. Follow up question the firmware was running pretty well up until today, when I realized my Hybrid VPN isn't working. The RApp is not starting and it says 0kb on the Rapp pinned to my Dashboard. I seen some people have similar issues but I can pinpoint a fix for me. I tried to re install the firmware (DumaOS 33 rc14) from this thread but it still isn't working. I just found in my logs I can see "[DumaOS] Some of the cleanup calls for com.netdumasoftware.hybirdvpn failed. And I also found Giving up restarting 'com.netdumasoftware.hybirdvpn' and ---- rapp end com.netdumasoftware.hybirdvpn #cstack 0 #res 0, flushing Any known way to fix this? Just added the rety attempts to 5 instead of 3 I will reboot it now 🤞. Restart didn't help.

I have installed this via this method but now it asks if I want to update online, will that revert to no duma 3 (how I was before this)?

Hi my XR500 is v2.3.3 do I still need to do all the steps? Seems like I'm going backwards

Can you please add me