Same issue here and I cant bring mine back. I have been setting up and flashing routers for 20 years and never ever have I had a firmware make a router unusable. This firmware even killed the Uart...

@Tha_host Same. The wording was not clear at all, adn I see several people made this mistake. Oh well. I now know that TP-link has non recoverable routers and we will stop selling them and installing...

Yes I can log in from the cloud and forget it. Then I put it into recovery mode and it acts like it takes the firmware, but when it reboots its the same issue. What is the exact firmware I need to...

@Clive_A I did that and it still shows that same weird firmware and NULL/NULL. However, I was able to get it to adopt into Omada and the controller set it straight. So I am good for now, but I need...

I cannot get this to take any firmware. Can you send a link to the recovery? Also, is the proper procedure to just upload it in the web ui? Every time I di it fails

I just took the router out of the rack and the version number is 1.6. However it did not say this in the omada software. My mistake. I am going to try the earliest firmware I can find for that model.