[Commotion-discuss] How do you factory reset a Rocket?

Josh King jking at chambana.net
Thu Sep 5 19:54:07 UTC 2013


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I'd suggest setting your IP to 192.168.1.42. At least theoretically,
that's the only IP that the M-series devices respond to in TFTP mode.

On Thu 05 Sep 2013 03:34:35 PM EDT, Adam Longwill wrote:
> When I put it into tftp I CANNOT ping it, which I find rather odd.
> set myself to static: 192.168.1.10 with 255.255.255.0 but the ping 
> requests timeout. I'm having this problem with 4 seperate routers
> that all produce SSIDs when booted normally.
> 
> Any idea why this is and what's causing it? It should be super
> simple to flash them but... I can't even reach them in TFTP mode.
> 
> Adam
> 
> 
> On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 3:25 PM, Ben West <ben at gowasabi.net 
> <mailto:ben at gowasabi.net>> wrote:
> 
> I've generally been able to put my Rocket M into TFTP/recover mode 
> by holding down the reset button upon power-up for at least
> 15seconds.
> 
> If you are able to get the unit into TFTP mode (i.e. it responds to
> ping at address 192.168.1.20), you can effect a factory reset by
> then simply uploading an image to reflash it, whether with stock
> UBNT firmware or OpenWRT/Commotion.
> 
> http://wiki.ubnt.com/Firmware_Recovery
> 
> 
> On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 2:15 PM, Adam Longwill 
> <adam.longwill at gmail.com <mailto:adam.longwill at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
> This may seem like an asinine question but I'm stumped.
> 
> We lucked into 5 Rockets (M2's and M5's!) last week and I'm trying
> to reset them to factory defaults. As anyone who has played with
> ubnt routers knows, they're finicky about resetting.
> 
> What is the actual, honest-to-goodness, guaranteed-to-work way to
> factory reset a Ubiquiti Rocket WITHOUT LOGGING IN? I have watched
> every video on the web concerning this and read all Ubiquiti's
> documentation. Doesn't help.
> 
> Here's what I do: Device is off. I hold the reset button in. I
> power on the device. Releasing after 8 seconds is supposed to put
> it in TFTP mode. Releasing after 15 seconds resets it completely.
> 
> The thing is, neither of these amount of times actually resets it
> and I can't ping it when the lights are blinking 1 and 3 then 2 and
> 4. Upon power cycling the router, the old SSID pops up on my wifi
> network monitor. It's been rather frustrating. Can anyone shed some
> light on how to reset a Ubiquiti rocket without logging in and
> resetting it?
> 
> Thank you!
> 
> Adam L.
> 
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