Hi All, I was having all sort of problems after upgrading to version 4. I am not comfortable with all the SSH editing but I got help from the WD support team to downgrade with minimal SSH work. It’s pretty easy. Here are the instructions: Download the following firmware version and unzip the .…

Happy to know that it’s working for others.

The issue is when the system is unstable, it will actually show no space in the home screen and thus the system doesn’t see that it has room to update. Give it a minute or two (or three or four or twenty) to stablize a bit for the UI to show the capacity amount. When it finally shows that figure, …

Your method worked flawlessly for me. I downgraded without problems. Only thing missing from fw v4 is LG TV Dlna srt support, but i can live without it :wink:

Worked fine for me. Thank you!!

What a difference, I just installed the MyCloud a week ago and it updated the 4.xx firmware immediatly so I couldn’t see what difference it was with the previous one. Downgraded as per your instructions and the device is A LOT more responsive, faster in access and in it’s interface… Only must find …

A word of warning… WD MyCloud 4TB. I upgraded the firmware to v04.00.00-607 after installing (I didn’t know any better at that point). No, I wasn’t happy with the results, and WD tech support was a waste of time. I downgraded the firmware as described, w/o any problems. However, after rebooting wi…

Thanks for the tip, in my case I have no problems with the downgrading and the Twonky server…

Registered only to say thanks for this post PVS0705 , you’ve saved a 40inch samsung TV come huge laptop monitor from having a WD mycloud 4TB paperweight embedded in it… if you catch my drift… Updating firmware to V 4 caused all sorts of nightmares… Transfer speed dropped through the floor… befor…

Hi all, If I downgrade to v03.04.01-219 will it also eliminate the 64-bit page size that showed in the v04 firmware? I’d like to use Crashplan again but cannot because I’m not tech savy enough to build packages for the 64-bit page size. thanks.

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Easy method to downgrade to previous version of the firmware

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Oblomov August 14, 2014, 7:16am 20

Thanks a lot!

Your instructions worked flawlessly (even though I used SSH).

4.00.00-607 was truly a dud (for me, your mileage may vary of course) and now I finally have my nice old NAS back again…

Thanks again!

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