Bricked my R8000 installing Tomato

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Sun, 06/26/2016 - 2:45pm
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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?

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    Mon, 06/27/2016 - 4:49pm
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    bigtime
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    rough.

    rough.

     

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

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      Tue, 06/28/2016 - 8:30am
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      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?

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        Wed, 06/29/2016 - 2:16pm
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        shengming216
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        Use usb to ttl and tftp to

        Use usb to ttl and tftp to flash  the  router

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          Wed, 06/29/2016 - 3:04pm
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          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

           

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