Emergency firmwarerecovery, Emergency firmware recovery – AirLive N.Power User Manual
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9. Emergency Firmware Recovery
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The N.Power features emergency firmware upgrade function that can restore your AP from 
a firmware crashed. If you can’t access your AP anymore, please first try to restore the 
setting to default by holding the RESET button (in the back) for more than 10 seconds. You 
should be able to find the AP at 192.168.1.254. If you can’t find it, then please perform the 
emergency upgrade. Please visit 
www.airlive.com
->support->download and type “N.Power”
to the download page. 
 
 
 
How Emergency Upgrade Works?
 
N.Power’s flash memory is divided into “firmware” and “bootloader” area. The bootloader 
area is protected from writing and has a built-in emergency web server. Therefore, the AP 
can be recovered from emergency web server after a firmware crash. The emergency 
web server is enabled when AP is forced into emergency upgrade mode, it’s IP will be 
changed to
192.168.1.254.
 
 
 
 
 
 
Procedure to Restore the AP using Emergency Upgrade
 
1. Please connect one of your LAN Ports (LAN1~LAN4) to your PC directly. 
 
2. Set your PC’s IP address to 192.168.1.50 
3. Before connecting the power, please press and holding the “Reset” button (in the back
of the AP). Then plug in the power. Keep press and hold the Reset button until the 
LED of the selected port goes on(about 3 seconds) 
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Emergency Firmware
Recovery
Bootloader Area
Flash Memory
Emergency 
Web Server 
Firmware Area