hAP Mini reset

RouterOS Beginner Basics
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Just got a hAP Mini, and have trouble factory resetting the device.
When I first powered it up, I could connect to the wireless network it created and connect to the web interface to configure it.
I made a change, which to me recollection was to make the device a repeater. Since then, I have not been able to connect to the device.

I does not create a WiFi network I can connect to.
When I hold the RESET button and then power up, wait for the USB light to blink, I still doesn’t create the MikroTIk network and the web interface does not respond.
I can see the network address it get from the network, and I can ping it.
When I try connect to that IP over https, I get connection refused.

I then discovered, that I can connect to the device with Telnet. Using that, I was able to upgrade the firmware to 6.49.7.
I have rebooted several times, and tried to reset several times, but still can’t get either the web interface up, or the MikroTik default WiFi network to appear.
From Telnet I can see that wlan1 is disabled, and managed by capsman.

So I would like to factory reset and start over. But it doesn’t appear the press reset while powering on method works for me.
Is there a way to factory reset from the telnet console?

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I would recommend a netinstall:
https://help.mikrotik.com/docs/display/ROS/Netinstall

3

Thanks. I did manage to reset it in the end.
The odd thing was, that when using the reset button, it would reset the login account, but still didn’t enable the default MikroTik WiFi network, nor would the web interface respond.
But I was able to run the reset script from the telnet console, and that restored the default settings fully.

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The published routines for RB931-2ND don't seem to work!

The reported issues with low power PSU's also does not seem to be true as the device use little power and larger PSU's seemed to make no difference.

The ACT light does not flash on startup as stated so the published reset procedures will not work.

I found that pressing rest then powering up caused the LAN2 to stay on and LAN3 to light dimly. The reset procedure will then fail!

This way does work.

On a PC set the LAN to 192.168.88. X ( X being anything from 2 to 254)

Ping 192.168.88.1

Plug into LAN1

Insert the power lead

About 0.5 later press the reset and keep pressed for about 10-15 seconds

That should reset the unit to defaults.

You should see the ping reply after 60-90 seconds if successful.

I was not able to trigger a Net Install using my method however after a sucessful reset I never investigated that process further.

5

This appears the documented method to use the "other" bootloader.

There are two bootloaders:

  1. the "main" one that is invoked by pressing reset (and keeping it pressed until leds start flashing) immediately** after** (I guess that your 0.5s counts for immediately) having inserted power

  2. the "backup" one that is invoked by pressing reset (and keeping it pressed until leds start flashing) before inserting power

99% of the time the second method is used as it is much easier to perform, the immediately in the first one is difficult to replicate in practice.

It is very possible that in your case the "backup" bootloader wasn't working properly whilst the "main" one did the trick.