Huawei AX3 firmware change to stock

[D4RK_S0LD13R]

Hello everyone

Long story short... Afrihost ended up cancelling my new fibre line install (Octotel's issue, not Afrihost) and they supposed to collect the Router they gave me.
Now it has been freaking 3 months with 5+ times followup, they never collected and rather charged me with fat R999 + R250 (router+delivery) and ran away....

Now I was looking to repurpose this thing and realised that it has Afrihost custom firmware.
Did quick search on forum, found this: Huawei AX3 | Internet & Networks
But all attempt I did ended up as "Invalid package" error while updating....

So the question is, does anyone know which stock firmware I need to use to restore it to factory?

The router in question is:
Huawei AX3 7100 dual core
Version: VER.A
Harmoney OS 3
firmware version: 2.0.0.115 (C1539)

TIA all.

 

[Smurf]

Hi Bud,

have you firstly try to reset it completely? and then go through the whole PPPOE Setup and then do a update via the router itself?

 

[D4RK_S0LD13R]

@Smurf
Good day bud, yes I reseted the router multiple times. On PPPOE side, I could not set up the pppoe since it is cancelled. So I just selected the DHCP and go ahead with rest of the setup and the update, which still ends up as invalid package... 😕

 

[Smurf]

Let me check If I still can find that website that had all the firmware models for the AX3, give a few will get back to you

 

[Smurf]

Huawei AX3-WS7100 - Multilingual Firmware

Hello. I am looking for multilingual firmware for the Huawei AX3-WS7100 router.I found information that it would be appropriate: WS7100-20_10.0.5.2_main_debug.binUnfortunately, I can't find it anywhere.Can you make the appropriate software available

consumer.huawei.com

this was the one we used for a friend of mine that had afrihost version, but looks like the link has been removed

Support for Huawei AX3 Pro

this hidden network appeared recently to me, i can't tell exactly the time, but i'm sure that it wasn't there when i first bought the router, i'm suspecting that this wifi appeared when i updated to the firmware v10.0.5.33 (i have the ax3 quad core global), i contacted huawei support trought...

forum.openwrt.org

https://www.reddit.com/r/Huawei/comments/qt9any/ax3_pro_system_upgrade

quick search brought this up.

 

[Smurf]

update.hicloud.com/download/data/pub_13/HWHOTA_hota_900_9/8b/v3/GMFGALe9SSGryfagez1znw/WS7100-20_10.0.5.33_main.bin

firmware I found, maybe try flash it

 

[ultimate]

Hello everyone

Long story short... Afrihost ended up cancelling my new fibre line install (Octotel's issue, not Afrihost) and they supposed to collect the Router they gave me.
Now it has been freaking 3 months with 5+ times followup, they never collected and rather charged me with fat R999 + R250 (router+delivery) and ran away....

Now I was looking to repurpose this thing and realised that it has Afrihost custom firmware.
Did quick search on forum, found this: Huawei AX3 | Internet & Networks
But all attempt I did ended up as "Invalid package" error while updating....

So the question is, does anyone know which stock firmware I need to use to restore it to factory?

The router in question is:
Huawei AX3 7100 dual core
Version: VER.A
Harmoney OS 3
firmware version: 2.0.0.115 (C1539)

TIA all.

As far as i know i just did the hard reset and plugged it into new fiber installation form internode and entered the detail No problems.
Got the router in 2022 But still has the Afrihost login screen.

 

[D4RK_S0LD13R]

@Smurf
Thanks a lot man, let me give it a try.

@ultimate
I have not tried on other ISP pppoe details but the one thing I do not like about their custom firmware is the fact that they have control over the router. I can remove their remote access, but flick of a reset or something it will bring that remote access again.

 

[ultimate]

@Smurf
Thanks a lot man, let me give it a try.

@ultimate
I have not tried on other ISP pppoe details but the one thing I do not like about their custom firmware is the fact that they have control over the router. I can remove their remote access, but flick of a reset or something it will bring that remote access again.

Put sticky not on it reminding everyone to turn off remote access when resetting.

 

[Rickster]

I think you just need to disable TR-069 and that should stop remote access.

 

[D4RK_S0LD13R]

update.hicloud.com/download/data/pub_13/HWHOTA_hota_900_9/8b/v3/GMFGALe9SSGryfagez1znw/WS7100-20_10.0.5.33_main.bin

firmware I found, maybe try flash it

Quick update on this,,, still did not work.
I feel like Afrihost changed some package for their custom firmware,,,,, Tried all of the bin files available on their website, all failed...

I think you just need to disable TR-069 and that should stop remote access.

Yes, that is correct. once I disable TR-069 their connection is pretty much terminated, but the custom firmware itself still keeps this setting and afaik it will not work with other ISP since it is locked with afrihost (not confirmed yet, I will try this soon actually).

 

[Rickster]

Maybe ask AfriNatic and AfriGirl on myBB.

I seriously doubt they would lock it to them only.

 

[Despaireon]

Maybe ask AfriNatic and AfriGirl on myBB.

I seriously doubt they would lock it to them only.

Don't bother. I already tried they just said disable TR-069. Nothing else can be done on their side

 

[Despaireon]

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[Soul Assassin]

Have they started customising the firmware on these, I have one and there's nothing Afrihost branded on it?

 

[D4RK_S0LD13R]

Have they started customising the firmware on these, I have one and there's nothing Afrihost branded on it?

From what I understand, there is no visible branding stuff, but it adds
1. Afrihost pppoe values (guest@afrihost.co.za)
2. TR-069 with afrihost access.

 

[Despaireon]

From what I understand, there is no visible branding stuff, but it adds
1. Afrihost pppoe values (guest@afrihost.co.za)
2. TR-069 with afrihost access.

But the problem is why it disables official firmware updates. What kind of version are they using that completely reject it. It's suspicious as my as I love Afrihost