Comments on: Firmware Reflash for ARM Based (Ts- x10/x12/x19 Series)

By: Alex

Alex — Sat, 02 May 2015 19:29:46 +0000

This was helpful to reset my QNAP TS-210 after some strange behavior – it showd up in Qnap-Finder only for a few seconds. I used Vrtlbox and image b) (as it did not work using a) to reset.
Nevertheless I had to reinitialize the harddisks in the end as well, as it could not be seen in step 20 with the previously used HDD. After reformatting (i.e. data lost – but did backup before) everything worked well.

So back your data up, before starting the process….

By: Lewis

Lewis — Tue, 11 Nov 2014 09:49:46 +0000

Is there an .iso for TS212? I’ve tried downloading from http://wiki.qnap.com/wiki/Firmware_Recovery, but Ubuntu fails to boot both as LiveCD and in VMware Player.

By: burado51

burado51 — Tue, 21 Oct 2014 08:16:12 +0000

Okey, I try unplugging battery combinations and sorry, now way to fix Qnap firmware that way.

@Jan, your problem is not about firmware, you have a problem with your first HDD -which cause Qnap to boot properly-

At this kind of cases, you can try to start device without first HDD, or fallow my “Qnap doesnt boot” documentery to solve;
http://qnapsupport.net/?page_id=516

Or, please contact with your local Qnap support team, we can easly identify & solve this kind of problems around 15 minutes without data lost.

By: burado51

burado51 — Tue, 14 Oct 2014 11:05:00 +0000

Hi;

I’ll try this and if it works, I’ll add this information to this guide;

Also you cannot loose your data with “reset” function and can get your datas back by this way; (Fallow “My shared folders disappear” document)
http://qnapsupport.net/?page_id=722

If your datas are important and accidently format HDD’s, you can easly recover data with Data recovery sorfwares for Single / RAID 1 buildings;
http://qnapsupport.net/?page_id=318

By: Jan

Jan — Tue, 14 Oct 2014 07:45:38 +0000

Remove Battery!

In my case, non of the recovery methods worked. i had a broken firmware because of an failed update.
i was able to boot up the qnap 212 without harddisks and need to push reset button while pushing power button for some seconds until it beeps twice. then qnap boots up with dhcp and resettet password and so an. then connect with qfinder and try firmware update with and without harddisks. it always stopped with some error that its unalbe to write firmware because of some network error. makes no sense…

in my case this worked: when you unscrew the green circuit board, theres a battery on the backside. take it out, pull the powercable and wait a few minutes. after that, put the battery back in, boot up the qnap holding reset button pushed until it beeps twice, take qfinder, connect an harddisk (sorry, data lost) an run the config assistant including firmware update.