Been flashing my own custom firmware to the RT-AC86U without issue for quite some time now. Then one day it just got bricked, after completing another flash. Maybe it is the flash memory has failed? I noticed there is two different firmwares that get built, so there's a choice of which one to use: "_cferom_ubi.w" and "_ubi.w". Does the "_cferom_ubi.w" firmware mean that it re-writes the bootloader every time?
The serial console reports the following message, at power on:
[rt-ac86u] very easy to brick
The serial console reports the following message, at power on:
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