Greetings,
I went to the KC9HI CHIRP Recovery site to download the firmware fix for my Baofeng UV-5R+, but can't find it in the listing. Firmware Message 1 is HN5RV01 and Firmware Message 2 is 1FB297. I am trying to recover from using a file from an older UV-5R.
Regards
73
Dennis
W7DRW
Greetings,
I went to the KC9HI CHIRP Recovery site to download the firmware fix for my Baofeng UV-5R+, but can’t find it in the listing. Firmware Message 1 is HN5RV01 and Firmware Message 2 is 1FB297. I am trying to recover from using a file from an older UV-5R.
Regards
73
Dennis
W7DRW
Hi Dennis,
These files are not firmware fixed. The firmware in these radios cannot be changed or updated.
Most of the CHIRP images that are available there are factory images that the radio owners downloaded while there radios was still in its factory delivered state and donated. They are listed by firmware version that was in the radio they were downloaded form because the memory layouts can vary and it is not a good idea to swap memory images between radios having different firmware versions. The firmware version was a good way to have CHIRP identify which radio model was being programmed and adjust itself to "match" the radio.
Unfortunately the HN5RV01 firmware has been showing up in many various models. In addition to that, not of the images that I have seen that were downloaded from radios having HN5RV01 always seem to have some sort of visible corruption. So I decided not to share any of them publicly. Those that I have shared on a one-to-one basis have not been successful in "fixing" the issue that the radio owner was having.
The driver for these radios has changed over the years. It has eventually been learned which areas of memory can be affected by uploading a "foreign" image and these areas of memory are now intentionally skipped during the upload process. It is no longer possible change these areas of memory so it is not possible to break or fix these areas of memory either.
Jim KC9HI
In other words a total reset will work to restore
On Wed, Aug 21, 2019 at 11:19 Jim Unroe rock.unroe@gmail.com wrote:
Greetings,
I went to the KC9HI CHIRP Recovery site to download the firmware fix for
my Baofeng UV-5R+, but can’t find it in the listing. Firmware Message 1 is HN5RV01 and Firmware Message 2 is 1FB297. I am trying to recover from using a file from an older UV-5R.
Regards
73
Dennis
W7DRW
Hi Dennis,
These files are not firmware fixed. The firmware in these radios cannot be changed or updated.
Most of the CHIRP images that are available there are factory images that the radio owners downloaded while there radios was still in its factory delivered state and donated. They are listed by firmware version that was in the radio they were downloaded form because the memory layouts can vary and it is not a good idea to swap memory images between radios having different firmware versions. The firmware version was a good way to have CHIRP identify which radio model was being programmed and adjust itself to "match" the radio.
Unfortunately the HN5RV01 firmware has been showing up in many various models. In addition to that, not of the images that I have seen that were downloaded from radios having HN5RV01 always seem to have some sort of visible corruption. So I decided not to share any of them publicly. Those that I have shared on a one-to-one basis have not been successful in "fixing" the issue that the radio owner was having.
The driver for these radios has changed over the years. It has eventually been learned which areas of memory can be affected by uploading a "foreign" image and these areas of memory are now intentionally skipped during the upload process. It is no longer possible change these areas of memory so it is not possible to break or fix these areas of memory either.
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On Wed, Aug 21, 2019 at 2:55 PM Dennis Wage dwage@dwage.com wrote:
In other words a total reset will work to restore
On Wed, Aug 21, 2019 at 11:19 Jim Unroe rock.unroe@gmail.com wrote:
Greetings,
Hi Dennis,
No. RESET will not perform a "restore". The RESET menu only resets the 128 memories, the 2 VFO and the 40 menus to the FIRMWARE defaults. The FIRMWARE defaults are not the same as what they were at when the radio came from the factory. For example from the factory menu 14 (VOICE) is set to ENG (English). After a RESET, menu 14 is set to CHI (Chinese). Many other menu settings are different after a RESET from what they were from the factory. And a RESET does nothing to "reset" any other areas of memory beyond what I mentioned above (the areas of memory that get messed up when overwritten by a foreign image). The only way you can "total reset" a Baofeng like radio back to its original "factory" settings is to upload a backup CHIRP image that was saved from the radio immediately after installation of the battery and before pressing any buttons. It doesn't sound like this was done in your case, though. Sorry.
Jim KC9HI
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