Flint 2 mt6000 firmware upgrade issue

Routers
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I’ve signed up to the preview release firmwares and was able to update firmware to 4.7.4 release 1.
Today I noticed an update to 4.7 release 6.

The router doesn’t upgrade/downgrade its firmware.

I’ve tried to update firmware with keeping settings.
I’ve tried to update firmware without settings.
I’ve reverted firmware then tried to upgrade.
I’ve tried holding in the reset button.
I’ve tried to downgrade firmware.

Is anyone having an issue like this, also?

How should I proceed?

Any advice would be greatly appreciated, thanks for your time.

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Hello,

Downgrade the firmware version is successful, is it?

Did you try manually upgrading the firmware from dl.gl-inet.com?

If no luck, you can try upgrading the firmware on uboot mode.

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Hello! I am currently having the same issue and even tried a vanilla openwrt from the wiki to no avail, i'm afraid that i'll have to try with uboot.
Are there instructions to do so that you could point me?

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Which image did you install?
U-Boot procedure is described here: Debrick via Uboot - GL.iNet Router Docs 4

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I didn't install any image, just tried updating to the 4.7.4 when it came around.

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You said you tried vanilla openwrt?

If your device is still on the current GL firmware, try to go through U-Boot as I linked.

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Also if in the past you used the factory images by OpenWrt U-boot is replaced by the version of OpenWrt which only comes with tftp and not a u-boot web ui, then the debricking needs to be done with tftpd, also for future reference to avoid this problem if you want to flash vanilla openwrt always use the sysupgrade one.

Neither do I know how to get the old U-boot back if this has been happening, its not clear what the OP means.

Are we talking about a downgrade or upgrade not working?, what doesn't work?, rolls it back to a same version?, is a ext4 overlay involved?

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If it works then consider leaving it for now.

Can you ssh to it using your password?

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the firmware and uboot are still the ones from gl, i didn't want to change it, in case i wanted to go back, i'll try uboot later today

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Went with uboot and I am successfully on 4.7.7!

I will try the upstream openwrt sometime later, but the issue came even before i tried to change to it... as a matter of fact, the idea came when i was unable to upgrade or downgrade the glinet firmware