KQ4MDM wrote: ↑Sun Jan 21, 2024 6:23 pm
No rush at all. But just inquiring if there is any hope for this in the future? I am liking this radio for dmr. Would love to see it work for analog too.
It's unlikely that we can resolve this problem unless we buy 2 or 3 of these radios ourselves and my budget for new radios is currently $0
I'm currently working on a radio I bought over a year ago, and have partially damaged it while trying to understand how it works internally.
i.e the trackball menu control system no longer works.
You may like to see what I have to do to radios in order to get the firmware onto them
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-AY2iX2qmE
Which basically involves taking them apart and soldering wires inside, which sometimes results in damaging the radio by accident.
Hence why I normally have to buy at least 2 of each radio I work on.
Currently have 7 GD-77 radios, but not all of them still work. I have 3 MD-9600 and for a while only 2 of them were working, but I managed to finally get the third going again after a lot of work.
So unless someone is willing to take their radio apart and analyse the control signals in this radio and how it differs from the other radios, I think its unlikely that we will be able to support it.
Unfortauntely the manufacturers are not interested in supplying us with free radios.
Radioddity did send me 2 GD-77 radios, without batteries etc which were customer returns, but thats all I've ever received.
And even if they did send us free radios, the problem is that it takes hundreds of hours of work to get the firmware working on a new radio, and we don't get paid for this, and none of us now has that much free time.
