Brume2 possibly bricked

Hello,

I have my Brume2 setup as a VPN server. Out of nowhere, it stopped working recently and neither a repair or reset worked. It's stuck at a constant blue light after booting.

I followed the instructions to debrick the router using uboot, using latest firmware 4.7.4 on my Macbook Pro in Chrome browser using the uboot interface. I can see the uboot interface, however, after I select the bin file and upload it, when I click update, I get an error. I'm including a picture of the error.

As a side note, I bought the Brume2 less than two years ago so it should be still under warranty.


Could you please help?

After my last post, I found a GL.inet announcement that recommends updating the uboot version first to version 2025-02-24 15:04:07. I tried this using http://192.168.1.1/uboot.html interface, but I get the exact same UPDATE FAILED error that I shared before.

make sure you are REALLY on http://192.168.1.1/uboot.html and not http://192.168.1.1/ do a refresh when youre on http://192.168.1.1/uboot.html

then check md5 hash of your bin file you downloaded if its correct.

How to make a checksum in macOS

it should be 74286e770cfb041b611d80d4adaef189 for that file.

@mkdr I'm sure I'm on that page and the md5 is correct.

I'm sending a video link so that you can review it all: Video

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Thats weird. Try maybe again in private tab with no addons.