====== Flash Firmware ======

This section covers a few methods to flash firmware onto your Cherry.

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==== Web interface / LuCI ====

Connect to your Cherry web interface and navigate to (**System → Backup / Flash Firmware**),\\
then select your firmware image and press ''Flash image'', on the next page click ''Proceed'' to begin flashing.\\

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==== Sysupgrade ====

Connect into Cherry and download the binary image to RAM under ''/tmp''. \\
(Alter your username, IP and path to match your binary image location)

  scp tester@192.168.1.254:/home/test/openwrt-8devices/bin/targets/ipq50xx/ipq50xx_32/openwrt-v5.0-r25-82e426b-ipq50xx-ipq50xx_32-8devices-cherry-dvk-ipq5000-squashfs-sysupgrade.bin /tmp

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Perform upgrade procedure __with__ configuration reset:

  sysupgrade -n /tmp/openwrt-v5.0-r25-82e426b-ipq50xx-ipq50xx_32-8devices-cherry-dvk-ipq5000-squashfs-sysupgrade.bin

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Perform upgrade procedure __without__ configuration reset:

  sysupgrade -c /tmp/openwrt-v5.0-r25-82e426b-ipq50xx-ipq50xx_32-8devices-cherry-dvk-ipq5000-squashfs-sysupgrade.bin

\\