jerome Posted August 30, 2014 Share Posted August 30, 2014 Hi all-- My wifi pineapple mkv worked for a while, then I didn't use it for a few months. Upon restarting, it boots, all the lights flash and then it ends up on only green. There's no Wifi signal visible and no activity on the ethernet port. I've successfully flashed via ethernet with the unbrick procedure but it fails to boot again when the switches are placed back all up. The SD card is blank even after the unbricking (verified correct md5), I formatted and unbricked again but; no luck. I'm not certain I'm performing the unbrick correctly as the instructions in the following post point to "stager.bin" but it isn't available for download. There's also no zip file as referenced in the post. https://forums.hak5.org/index.php?/topic/31637-micro-sd-unbrick-issue/ I did try putting the .bin on the sd card as well as the md5 sum in a file called md5.txt -- nada. I've ordered a new sd card but, in another computer the sd card seems to work so not confident it will help. Any help or a working link to stager.bin and the sd card zip would be greatly appreciated. Thanks,JM. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jerome Posted August 30, 2014 Author Share Posted August 30, 2014 Proably should have mentioned that I followed all of the instructions at the following link first: https://wifipineapple.com/?flashing It completed successfully. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bytedeez Posted August 30, 2014 Share Posted August 30, 2014 (edited) This happened to mine, had to do a hard factory reset. To conduct a hard reset place dip switches 2 and 3 in the down position. Wait for the image to be re flashed and then accessed the pineapple. Once you have access the webUI flip the dips witches back up and continue. Edited August 30, 2014 by damavox Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jerome Posted August 30, 2014 Author Share Posted August 30, 2014 hi damavox -- thanks for the reply. I did try the dip switches 2 and 3 in the down position waited for more than 20 minutes, then power cycled with switches back up, It just ends up with the green light on. Next I moved to flashing the factory image from the flashing page above (switch 5 down). Still no joy. eth0 works for uploading the factory image, but is dead with all switches up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bytedeez Posted August 31, 2014 Share Posted August 31, 2014 (edited) Hmmmm strange. Try to format your sd card to a earlier firmware version 1.4.x or below, load the image to the sd card and go back through the steps of flashing via sd card. Edited August 31, 2014 by damavox Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sebkinne Posted August 31, 2014 Share Posted August 31, 2014 Hmmmm strange. Try to format your sd card to a earlier firmware version 1.4.x or below, load the image to the sd card and go back through the steps of flashing via sd card. This doesn't work anymore, sorry. Please see how to factory reset your WiFi Pineapple on our website. Best regards, Sebkinne Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bytedeez Posted August 31, 2014 Share Posted August 31, 2014 Seb, he is following the wiki but nothing is working for him. Any thoughts? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darren Kitchen Posted August 31, 2014 Share Posted August 31, 2014 Per our email correspondence jerome is working on accessing the MK5 via serial. If that doesn't do the trick we'll see about a warranty replacement. Thanks for the unbricking advice folks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jerome Posted September 1, 2014 Author Share Posted September 1, 2014 Thanks for all the suggestions everyone. I've tried multiple cards, fat and ext formatted, and the flashing instructions on the wiki as well as the factory reset in all sorts of combinations and on different computers. I'll be sure to post what I find when I get the serial adapter. thanks again! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jerome Posted September 3, 2014 Author Share Posted September 3, 2014 Power Supply! Along with the usb serial I also received a usb to barrel power connector -- I tried that first. It works, Theory: It looks like a brown-out. Supporting Data: While the system is first booting it looks fine until... the radios fire up, then there's enough of a current draw to cause a voltage dip and crash the OS. (no radios during unbrick, so, lower current?) Would love to power test the ps, also watch serial during boot and measure current draw, but hey it's working -- thanks for all the suggestions! Peace! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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