Almost daily someone has to be instructed how to recover their radio after they uploaded a CHIRP image saved from a radio with BFB/BFS firmware into a new radio with N5R firmware. I have been pulling my hair out trying to figure out how they are doing this. The daily builds blocks an image that is incompatible with the radio to be uploaded.
I just confirmed that uploaded a BFS311 image into an N5R-20 radio that the single backport patch to CHIRP v0.4.1 isn't enough to keep CHIRP from uploading incompatible images.
I keep telling everyone to not use the CHIRP stable version for all Baofeng/Pofung radios (except for the UV-B5/UV-B6) but most don't find out until it is too late. And there are some that don't want to run anything but a stable release.
The October date on the stable build is misleading. It contains nothing since the April v0.4.0 build except the backported patch that apparently isn't dong the job.
I'm thinking that there either needs to be more patches backported to the stable build (not recommended by me) or roll out a v0.4.2 that is current with the latest daily build. If not either of these two things, then maybe a strong warning on the downloads page not to use the v0.4.1 stable build for Baofeng/Pofung radios.
Any other ideas?
Jim KC9HI