Bricked my R8000 installing Tomato

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mikeneal1978
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Bricked my R8000 installing Tomato

After installing Tomato all i get is an amber power light. I tried to unbrick it but putty won't open the serial connection and I cant ping the router with a static IP set on my pc. any suggestions?

bigtime
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rough.

rough.

 

did you flash stock firmware before flashing tomato? or did you flash tomato straight from dd-wrt

microchip
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How did you flash? Did you

How did you flash? Did you use the initial file first for the R8000?

shengming216
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Use usb to ttl and tftp to

Use usb to ttl and tftp to flash  the  router

Peter Redmer
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Did you flash with the

Did you flash with the "initial" file first?

http://myopenrouter.com/download/tomato-firmware-shibby-netgear-r8000-in...

shibby also provided some video instructions which can be found on his site, or here:

http://tomato.groov.pl/download/K26ARM7/136-MultiWAN/

You may have to recover via TFTP:

http://myopenrouter.com/article/how-set-serial-console-netgear-r8000