Config lost on hAP lite after switching from CPE to Home AP on Quick Set page?

RouterOS General
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(Sending this as email to the support email address as well.)

For whatever reason, my Quick Set page switched from Home AP to CPE after I made some changes. I liked what that page looked like in Home AP mode so I backed up my config and switched it back.

Not sure if this is relevant, but I had just upgraded the firmware (System → Routerboard) from 3.27 to 3.29 a few hours earlier.

So anyway, after I switched back to Home AP, the router would no longer ping and the WiFi SSID no longer showed up.

Then I did the “system reset” procedure by holding down the button for 5 seconds after powering it up. Still no luck.

I wiresharked port 2 and noticed no traffic except CDP (MNDP?) from the port. I had another MikroTik router on the same subnet so I went to it and saw the Neighbor entry for the bad one, it was very minimal. But MAC telnet worked! Sort of. It got jumbled up, so I found source online for a program called mactelnet so I built it and used it instead to log into the “bad” router.

When I did “export” there was nothing there. When I did “export detail” there were a few things, but it looked like most of the config, even the default config, was wiped out.

I put my config back on it and it’s working now. Luckily I had just backed it up!

What happened?

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Sorry, version is 6.34.3.

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Better not to touch the quickset at all. It changes the configuration even without pressing apply button. Very dangerous when you made whatever settings out of the quickset before.

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I still think the quickset should disappear after use, or at least there should be an easy option to turn it off.

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http://forum.mikrotik.com/t/feature-request-make-quickset-to-be-separate-package/84517/1

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I’m not here to discuss the relative merits of the quick set page. It has caused me issues before and I understand that it’s convenience has tradeoffs.

In this case however, it nearly bricked the router. If mac telnet didn’t work, I would have had to figure out something else, maybe netboot?

Seems like it could cause RMAs.

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Seems there are not enough people with problems like you. They either use quickset once and forget that anything like router config exists or they do no use quickset at all.