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

[Adam Longwill]

Indeed it was asinine. Problem solved. Tftp mode is obtained by starting
with the power off and holding reset for 8 seconds as you power up the
rocket. Factory reset is achieved by letting the device boot normally then
holding reset button for 15 seconds. Works like a charm!
On Sep 5, 2013 4:00 PM, "Ben West" <ben at gowasabi.net> wrote:

> If by "router" you mean you're plugging both your laptop/desktop and the
> Rocket into an intermediate Ethernet switch or router, that shouldn't be
> necessary.  I just use a regular patch cable between the LAN port on my
> Laptop and the "LAN" jack on the UBNT POE injector.  The UBNT's auto-sense
> polarity on their LAN ports, I believe.  No cross-over cables needed.
>
> Also, do note that UBNT recommends setting yourself to address
> 192.1681.254, so the rocket in TFTP mode may only accept incoming packets
> from that address.
>
> http://wiki.ubnt.com/Firmware_Recovery
>
>
>
> On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 2:34 PM, Adam Longwill <adam.longwill at gmail.com>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> 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>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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>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Ben West
>>> http://gowasabi.net
>>> ben at gowasabi.net
>>> 314-246-9434
>>>
>>
>>
>
>
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> Ben West
> http://gowasabi.net
> ben at gowasabi.net
> 314-246-9434
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