Reboot the UTSTARCOM WA3002G4 router

After trying the free software I'd appreciate it if you left a comment if it DID or DID NOT work with your UTSTARCOM WA3002G4 ! Enjoy !

This software developed by me is free to distribute and use. It's not digitally signed and comes with no guarantees! Use it at your own risk!

Routers are usually rebooted by hitting the switch located at its back. Well .. that's OK if you have to do that when you are around. What if you needed to reboot the router when you are away from it automatically through the PC that is connected to the UTSTARCOM WA3002G4 wireless router?

If yes .. This article is for YOU!

Rebooting the Router assures that the Internet Service Provider's (ISP's) system refreshes daily data-transfer log for your account. Some ISPs provide free download times but fail to refresh you daily transfer log. So unless you reconnect to your ISP the daily trasfer log is not updated. (This happens with only some ISPs)

Things you'll need:

1. UTSTARCOM WA3002G4 wireless ADSL router (might work with other UTStarcom routers)
2. Windows 2000, XP (not tested but might work on Vista)
3. Scheduler (if you are interested in scheduling the reboot run)

Instructions

1. Download the zip file in this link (contains RebootRouter.exe, RebootRouter.bat and README.txt). Unzip the file and extract the files to a folder on your PC.
2. Open the file README.txt and follow the instructions to successfully execute the software.
3. Leave a comment if it did or did not work for you

Motivation

Upon getting a call from my ISP saying that they would update my old Huawei wired router with an elegant brand new UTStarcom Wireless Router, "That's just great" thought I. My Huawei router was commanded to reboot every midnight. This ensured that my ISP's system refreshed my daily data-transfer log. The reboot program used TST10.exe to telnet to the router and reboot it. It was frustrating to note that it did not work with the new UTSTARCOM WA3002G4 wireless router. TST10.exe could not handle the commands I issued or I did not know how to work around TST10.exe to get the job done.

Determined I decided to build my own solution. It fructified to this.

Hope you find it useful as well.

The software mentioned in this article is developed by the author of the article . It is free to distribute and use. It's not digitally signed and comes with no guarantees! Use it at your own risk!

Virus attack or a Hardware malfunction?

It was the deadline for a paper and Fischer was typing away furiously on his old AMD Athlon, ASUS motherboard system. Then all of a sudden pftt!!! the computer switched itself off without a warning. Not a reboot, not a shutdown but a switch off! It was futile to attempt to switch it on immediately. Only after 25 seconds would the system reboot.

Fischer pondered on whether this was due to a problem with the system hardware or if it was a virus attack?

Upon reboot Fischer ran the program SpyBot - everytime the program completed 70% of the checks the above phenomenon repeated. Frustrated Fischer resorted to checking the hardware. On opening he found a thick layer of dust on the CPU Heat sink. Could this be the reason?

As it turns out ... it was! Dust on the heat sink caused the CPU over heating resulting in no-warning system switch off. The dust was off and Fischer's PC was back in action. Check here if Fischer's PC is still alive.

Watch videos on your 1st Generation iPod Nano installing RockBox

Before you begin you need

1. A 1^st Generation iPod Nano - (Check if your player is supported by rockbox here)
   
2. A backup of all the data on the iPod

With these + a whole lot of courage follow these steps :-

1. Install RockBox (An Open Source Jukebox Firmware)
• You can download the current build from here - http://build.rockbox.org/
• Connect the 1st Generation iPod Nano to the PC via USB
• Connect it to the PC in Disk Mode
• Pressing both the Menu and the Select (center) buttons reboots the Nano
• As the Nano is rebooting if you hold the Play and the Select (center) button it will reboot into Disk Mode
• Extract the contents of the file downloaded into the root directory of the iPod Nano
• Explore the contents of the iPod with win explorer. You will see a directory called .rockbox (NOTE: Do not change the name of this directory or any of its sub-directories)
• Now, In order to make your player load and execute the Rockbox firmware you have just installed, you will need to install the Rockbox bootloader (next step)
  
2. Run the iPodPatcher
• Download ipodpatcher.exe from here and run it
• Follow the instructions
• Congratulations you have a iPod that dual boots Rockbox and the Apple OS firmware
• REMEMBER the patcher installs the RockBox as the default OS
• Now to boot into the RockBox firmware
• Do nothing Reboot the iPod Nano – it boots RockBox by default
• And to boot into the Apple OS firmware -
• Reboot the iPod Nano pressing both the Menu and the Select (center) buttons
• Hold the Menu key to reboot to the Apple OS firmware
• For more details on the installation visit this link
  
3. Encode your favorite videos
• To be played on the 1^st Generation iPod Nano using WinFF from - http://biggmatt.com/winff/ - WinFF is a GUI for the command line video converter, FFMPEG

IMPORTANT NOTE :-

If anything goes wrong you can restore your iPod Nano Apple OS firmware using iTunes’ Restore utility. Just remember - In order to ensure that you do not damage your iPod, before disconnecting your cable be sure that you see the “Ok to Disconnect” message on your iPod.