I am having trouble following these instructions. Thank to the now widespread Type-C hubs, USB-based restore method is now fully applicable to Google Wifi. I hope this experience with help someone with bricked Google WiFi.

It took some few extra steps to get rid of all the chaotic partitions the restore utility created on the flash drive and make it usable again. This way the APs got updated and I could factory reset them and join them to my existing network.īy past midnight I had a fully functional mesh network with all 6 APs serving the house. There were some quirks while connecting them to the master network, as the recovery firmware was not fully compatible, but I ended up setting up each one as the root hub. I used the Type-C hub I normally use to connect the display and old USB devices to my laptop, to connect the power supply and the flash drive to every AP one by one, and this helped recovering them. The recovery utility is basically a Chrome extension, but it could successfully work with the USB port of my Windows 10 machine. Surprisingly, only 2 of the devices survived the factory reset, and the master AP was in the strange condition too.Īfter some research, I discovered that the OnHub recovery utility actually supports Google WiFi, and created a recovery USB with the latest firmware available. Hard wiring them to the root AP and trying hardware reset like that didn't help.Īt this point Nikki from the help desk gave up and offered to check if the APs are eligible for replacement.Īfter our conversation I took the risk of factory resetting the whole network. I could set it up successfully, but the 2 bricked one remained bricked. First, we tried to reset the problematic AP via the app, but for some reason it did reset another one. I thought was time to get in touch with the helpdesk, and Nikki made the best effort to help with online chat. I also noticed another puck lighting solid blue, and tried factory resetting it too, but it also never started showing the setup network. It never came back to the ready-to-pair condition, and was turning off just after a few minutes of flashing blue. After spending more time at home I noticed that the basement AP behaves strangely and decided to give it a factory reset.

Google wifi router pulsing blue