Many times the factory software will flash as it’s searching for the com port of the cable.
The flashing will stop when the USB cable is plugged in.
John K3NXU
http://www.miklor.com
From: chirp_users-bounces@intrepid.danplanet.com [mailto:chirp_users-bounces@intrepid.danplanet.com] On Behalf Of Chuck Mills
Sent: Sunday, April 20, 2014 7:39 PM
To: Discussion of CHIRP
Subject: Re: [chirp_users] Baofeng UV-6 -- Radio refused clone
Had a bit of trouble myself. Tried the factory software and all it does is flash my screen until I kill the program. I agree with the CHIRP option. It took me a couple tries but I finally got it. Here are the links to three youtube videos. I went through these and found that the driver was not installed properly. Fixed that and now can upload and download all the way to excel then back up to radio. Works really well.