Need to debrick ar300m

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I was trying to flash openwrt 21 clean firmware on my ar300m but not sure what went wrong, after the update its booting only on NOR firmware.

I tried uboot method but uboot is not allowing me to flash .img files. I get the errors file is either too large or you are trying to update ART which is not allowed (attached). My switch is on left side only (near reset button)

I flashed the latest uboot .bin file which i got from https://github.com/gl-inet/uboot-for-qca95xx/blob/master/bin/uboot-gl-ar300m-20201224-md5-d06d53166f9eb2cb321c15c3ec0a87e0.bin it got flashed. Afterwards I again tried to flash the ubi img files but again same error as attached.

Can anybody guide how can I debrick my router to get back to nand firmware.

uboot
uboot719×477 18.7 KB

uboot error
uboot error773×304 13.3 KB

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You need to update your uboot first hence your issue.

https://github.com/gl-inet/uboot-for-qca95xx/blob/master/bin/uboot-gl-ar300m-20201224-md5-d06d53166f9eb2cb321c15c3ec0a87e0.bin

Flash that and then see after that if you can flash your openwrt image.

As the page your on is the uboot upgrade page.

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Hi Solidus,

As i mentioned in original post, i have already updated uboot but even after it I can not flash the img file.

Regards

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Sorry nevermind, seems i was going into wrong page i.e. 192.168.1.1/uboot.html instead of just 192.168.1.1 which is for firmware updating :see_no_evil:
Using this page i was able to update the firmware without any probs, pretty n00b of me lol :bowing_man:

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