fix(reliability): explicit hop baseline restore, immune to stale pager snapshot

payload/user/remote_access/pager-webui/server.py

@@ -4797,14 +4797,18 @@ def health_check():
         except Exception:
             pass
         # Restore the hopping baseline unless a Mark VIII role/attack holds
-        # the pause intentionally (_resume_hop self-guards against fighting a
-        # live Pager hop enable).
+        # the pause intentionally. Deliberately bypasses _resume_hop(): its
+        # pager-snapshot may carry a stale hop=0 captured while the old boot
+        # guard forced the value, which would silently keep 5 GHz pinned.
+        # Baseline policy: idle system => wlan1mon hops.
         if not _HOP_PAUSE_HELD:
             try:
                 before = _read_hop()
-                if before == '0':
+                if before != '1':
                     import mk8_events
-                    _resume_hop()
+                    device_run(['uci', 'set', 'pineapd.wlan1mon.hop=1'])
+                    device_run(['uci', 'commit', 'pineapd'])
+                    device_run(['/etc/init.d/pineapd', 'reload'], timeout=30)
                     mk8_events.log_event(
                         'guard_fix',
                         msg='restored wlan1mon.hop baseline (was %s)' % before)