Re: [chirp_users] Version of Baofeng UV-5R not supported by CHIRP?

What you cannot do, is load one radio, then go to the other radio, and load it.

...across versions of the UV-5R, correct. That's because they decided to change their memory layout for the later versions of the firmware.

When you go to the other version, you need to download from the radio, the open the file with all your saved info, and upload it to the new radio. In other words, download from the radio, even if you do not intend to use the file, that seems to be what tells chirp what version radio you have.

I'm not sure what you're trying to say here, but CHIRP doesn't store any information about what radios (or versions) you have.