Flash Firmware

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

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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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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

Perform upgrade procedure with configuration reset:

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

Perform upgrade procedure without configuration reset:

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