TomatoUSB

Hello All,

Sorry about a brief post I have spent hours to get my router to boot again.
I flashed both Shibbys and dd-wrt's images with ASUS recovery tool, I even tried to get back to stock images.
With tomato's and dd-wrt's I successfully flashed and the tool says its performing system recovery process with a slowly ascending percentage.
After that I power cycle the router and it does not boot up. It stays on a firmware recovery status even though Im not able to uplaod a new firmware after reboot (without reset butten pressed on boot)

Stock FW does not even flash fully.

What can I do to get it to boot again? - Any image, any firmware.. :)
Don't tell me it is bricked please? - I get in to recovery status on the router as usual every time.

I have a long history with ASUS routers with both dd-wrt and tomato firmwares I have never experienced this type of problem.

Images I tried to flash:
tomato-K26USB-1.28.RT-N5x-MIPSR2-112-AIO-64K.trx
tomato-K26USB-1.28.RT-N5x-MIPSR2-112-VPN-64K.trx
dd-wrt.v24-21676_NEWD-2_K3.x_mega_RT-N66U.trx

It's probably bricked. You can return the router and try again.

If it is in recovery mode, try and flash it again. After flashing, you have to wait for at least 5 min before you do anything to the router, like power cycle or erase NVRAM.

It sounds like he has already done that. Most likely the NVram is failing. He should take it back while he can still return it. You can keep frying as many routers as you want as long as you do it within 30 days.

Thank you both for the recommendations.
It was not bricked! - It turned out that I was too impatient.
After a (successful) flash I just let it be, switched on a movie and let it be. (I did not power cycle)
First after about 30-45 min I power cycled when the wlan leds was turned on and I could see the new SSIDs (tomato24 / 5 )
After that All is good! - I panicked there for a while GeeTek, but if I can get in to Recovery it should not be bricked right?

Strange thing is that not even the stock FW wanted to flash fully. Anyway I prefer Tomato! =)

I'm glad to hear you got it going, even though that is not you and I am not me. This is a strange website. Helpful at times, but quite strange.