Thank you for letting me know. However, my budget is set around $60-$70. I can meet you in West Hartford if you can meet my budget. If not, I understand, and thank you again for letting me know.
Thank you for letting me know. However, my budget is set around $60-$70. I can meet you in West Hartford if you can meet my budget. If not, I understand, and thank you again for letting me know.
Charlie, KA1CM
How much would you charge me to install the chip on mine? You already have the chip?
How much would you charge me to install the chip on mine? You already have the chip?
I’m not a professional electronics repair person. It just a hobby, I can play with my stuff because I know I won’t sue myself if I messed it up. I’m not comfortable opening up others radios, lots of things can go wrong.
My advice is talk to a telephone repair shop and ask them if they can do it. The chip is very cheap on Amazon.com.
I purchased W1COD's RD-5R on eBay and had it shipped to Charlie for him to update the RAM chip from 1MB to a whopping 16MB, which allows for a full worldwide download of RadioID's to the previously hobbled RD-5R (Radioddity did not want to canabalize sales of their then premiere low-end DMR HT, the GD-77, which had enough RAM for a full download).
He extended his courtesies even more when I swapped him my extra RD-5R in exchange for his RAM upgrades on both my newly acquired RD-5R and my previous AliExpress acquired DM-5R and he threw in a full programmed pi-star HotSpot for me, too!
Next stop: I will be programming my codeplug for my newly acquired Radioddity DB25-D to include Hotspot capability for my round trip drive up to Montana this July in my Chevy Bolt EV, which includes On Star WiFi capability.
*** BE CAREFUL OF THE ELECTRO STATIC DISCHARGE!!!!!!! ***
After grounded everything, de solder the old 1Mbyte chip out
Because the new chip is a little bit bigger than the old one. You will need to bend and trim the legs, so it can be align with the pads on the board.
Then, solder the new chip in. *** MAKE SURE THE NEW CHIP SIT ON THE BOARD, THE SPEAKER ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE CASE WILL PRESS ON THE CHIP AND WILL DAMAGED THE PADS IF THE CHIP DID NOT SEATED PROPERLY ***
If you see "Flash Men Error" when you turn the radio on. That means the radio can not identify the new chip. Check your solder joints.
If everything is good, you will see "Calibration error" on the screen when you turn the radio on. Restore the flash memory from the backup file and you are good to go.
Great, thx a lot!
I sent him text, video and pics, maybe he can do it for me.
I love the RD-5R its so tiny and small but works like a charm.
One of my RD-5R is having contact problems with the audio ports, so it has to be opened anyway.
Fells like a f*cked up solder joint, pressing the plug to one side allows programming via the cable.