Nighthawk App Update Firmware

[Yaima President]

WhenI login to the app on the iPhone, I get the message "Firmware Out of Date" and the app will not run. I contacted Spectrum (my ISP), and they rebooted the modem saying that would ensure that the firmware was up to date. The firmware version is V1.02.09. This is unchanged from before the reboot. Also it is the current version as listed by Netgear on its website. So it appears that the firmware is, in fact, up to date, and the problem is an incorrect indication by the Nighthawk app. The app is Version 2.10.5.17, which is the one currently available at the Apple App Store.

As far as I can tell, everything else is working: Internet connection, WiFi, and the information on the router webpage all OK. So not a serious problem, as I can get most of the same information by logging on to the router. But it would be convenient to have the app working and not giving what appears to be incorrect information about the C7000v2 firmware.

Yes, I'm dealing with the same exact issue you described in your post from 2021, it's January 2022 and NETGEAR still hasn't fix the Nighthawk App. It really would be nice to be able to use this app before 2023 rolls in.

check what firmware you have on your router. You can always check for firmware updates on the netgear.com website under "support" just type in the model number and look for the firmware updates and download it. I suggest if you update manually do it wired with a laptop. On the website you can download the updates.

3.3.535 adds support for the new DumaOS For Mobile - a flexible view that works in virtually any viewport, with massively improved response times and speed. This is best experienced via the DumaOS app which, as of this firmware, fully integrates the webview format for any platform that supports it.

I was not able to insta Beta 3.3. The intermediate firmware was installed successfully and upgraded the XR500 from v2.3.2.134 to v2.3.2.135. But the final upgrade to beta 3.3 did not work, the firmware image was incorrect. After that I have rolled back to v2.3.2.134 and tied to install the beta 3.3 in one step but that gave the same response incorrect firmware image.

can some one kindly explain my confusion? why is this version called 3.3.535 and the image file is version 2.3.2.134 i feel like iv been living in the maitrix iv been on version 2.3.2.134 for the last year ?

I believe, as a workaround, is to change the default LAN address. Although, this user was using R2, it might be the same. Worth a try for XR500. From 192.168.0.1 to say 192.168.50.1. Here's where they mentioned they fixed this

Yes it is a Omada AP connected via RJ-45. I am able to assign a static IP to it as well. So if I changed the XR500 to 192.168.22.1, then the AP would need to be on a different subnet? Example 192.168.23.2?

I work your bild but I think the wifi range is significantly worse than the original firmware. In addition, in the original firmware on 5GHz, 1 radio is visible and on openwrt we have 2 radios. Why is that?

@nschimme I don't use it as my daily device and don't know about stability.

@robimarko @jewest added me as an collaborator back in January. I already made the changes you requested in my fork of his (I DM's him three weeks ago to ask if it is ok if I push the changes, no answer). So I can push them, what is preferred a forced push or an additional commit? I'm a dummy, I'm on holiday and while I can apply and push the commit, I can't test it. Only my trusty APU2 got with me on holiday

I am interested in giving this problem another shot, but before that I'd like to confirm if it's a unsloved problem for everyone. (is it already fixed?) (or is it a problem happens only on my and @NastyNeightK side bc of mis configuration?)

I does work for me (with the commit/repo the image mentioned in the post 3 three weeks ago is based on). But it's a regular UBIFS image not jffs2 anymore, which seems appropriate for a NAND based device.

Thanks for solving this mystery for me. I bought this router 2 years ago because of the 8x8 Mu-MIMO but returned it for subpar performance. There was only one other vendor using this "8x8" MU-MIMO, a ruckus that got paused for production/discontinued. It was weird -- why a enterprise product suddenly get unavailable when it was the most expensive product. So it was red flags on top of red flags, the main red flag being why signal didn't improve over 4x4 products. Now you solved it for me! --> that the 8x8 was a software hack stitching two 4x4, not a true 8x8.

I just bricked my RAX120v2 by using nand erase 0 7e00000 (should have used nande erase.spread after setting the offset; or the proper offset). No serial output of course, all LEDs are on but dead otherwise since I erased the boot partition+.

Looking at the datasheet of the Winbond W29N04GZBIBA (according to Wikidev) there seems no easy way to flash it for a semi-dummy like me. I got a flasher for motherboard BIOS' but nothing more, and I'm more of plumber then an electronics guy.

I have read that there is no Router update option on these modems because the ISP does the updating. That conflicts with the Time Warner website which indicates that they do not provide support for personal routers. How do I get the firmware updated and how do I know when it is time for an update? Thank you

You should request to talk to a supervisor in order to explain the siutation. I have in the past had my internet provider, pushed updates to the modem I purchased from Amazon, so I know Time Warner has the capability to update the firmware on this modem.

You have the C7000 which is a cable modem, not a router, the Nighthawk router has a R7000 designation. Although the C7000 functions as both as a router and cable modem, this is typically more accurately, a gateway.

Most of the time, from an adversarial standpoint, we want firmware for static analysis. With that, we can reverse-engineer it and try to find bugs, which we can then try to use against the device itself.

A lack of sensible-looking ASCII strings, in a firmware file this big (more than 100Mb), is usually an indication that the file is encrypted in some way. Searches for little-endian-ordered UTF-16 strings (using the strings -el flag) turned up absolutely nothing as well.

This is probably the most effective way to get a sense of how encrypted a file might be. Binvis.io is pretty good for visualising smaller files but, in this case, since the file was huge, I had to use offline tools. First, binwalk.

From the head of the file, you would be forgiven for assuming that if it were XOR-encrypted, the key would be 16 bytes. And, you might also be forgiven for thinking that the key might be 80404c21519bfdc5cdff2ed3660b8f6e.

But, we need to take a step back so we can figure this out in more depth. Is there any way we can make assumptions about what we are expecting to get out of the firmware file? Any kind of known(-ish) plaintext might help us here.

Remember our 0x100-long chunk of 80404c21519bfdc5cdff2ed3660b8f6e bytes from earlier? What if the presence of a 0x100-long chunk of these bytes indicated that a header for a particular sub-chunk of the firmware was about to begin? That would be cool, right? We could then start splitting up the massive file into smaller chunks, and work on each of those separately.

NETGEAR will not upgrade the firmware of our cable modems and you won't push updates to customer-owned modems. What are we to do as consumers? I may have to change services because your equipment does not work for my purposes and is awful and you refuse to push important updates to my equipment. My equipment would work way better with your system if you get it to a newer firmware but so far it is just roadblock after roadblock for no reason. Honestly this is just BS to get us to use your crappie equipment.

It will take much, much longer for rented modem updates compared to customer modem updates in all cases because the number of people and states affected by a rental update can be up to five times as large as the customer owned modem. There's tons more development and testing involved. There are also instances where updates can break things, especially with more customers affected. Your always free to use your own modem, Check with Spectrum to make sure that your modem is on the approved list first. They have a list of customer approved modems. The modem that Spectrum provides is free. There is a charge to rent a WIFI router.

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