Greetings,

A new daily build of CHIRP is available. This includes changes made directly to the tree yesterday, and may include additional features, bug fixes, and/or bugs. If you are interested in trying it, grab it from the following location:

http://trac.chirp.danplanet.com/chirp_daily/daily-20170406

A list of the changes included in this build (since the last daily) follows:

Changes for Build #475 [Jim Unroe rock.unroe@gmail.com] [UV-5R] "Incorrect 'Model' selected." error

When Baofeng started shipping tri-power radios back in 2014, the firmware version format could be used to identify if the detected radio had 2 power levels (HIGH/LOW) or 3 power levels (HIGH/MID/LOW). CHIRP would then use this firmware version to not only determine if the user had selected the correct radio model, but also to present the only settings that were available on the selected model.

Recently Baofeng radio models with 3 power levels have been shipping with with the HN5RV001 firmware version. This same firmware version, as it has for the last 2 years, continues to ship in radio models that have only 2 power levels. This firmware version defeats CHIRP's ability to differentiate on its own between these two model types.

This patch addresses the problem in 2 ways.

1. for radios with the HN5RV001 firmware version, CHIRP will assume that the user has selected the correct radio model. The selected model is then appended to the end of the image so CHIRP can identify the radio model when image is loaded back into CHIRP at a later time.

2. the driver will now selectively uploads the image in ranges, thus bypassing specific areas of memory that must not be overwritten by images from radios with a different firmware version.

This patch also addresses, in a similar way, a related problem where the radio does not report a firmware version at all to CHIRP.

releated to issue #4445 and many others