Installation of New Firmware Stuck

TA2EGG
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Re: Installation of New Firmware Stuck

Post by TA2EGG » Tue Feb 04, 2025 7:35 pm

Sorry for the late reply. I found another pc to try it on I am getting the same errors in
original cps read and write
original firmware bin upload
opengd77 firmware upload
opengd77 cps read and write

nothing changed unfortunately my drivers and other software are in order.

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Re: Installation of New Firmware Stuck

Post by TA2EGG » Tue Feb 04, 2025 8:18 pm

I was also able to upload opengd77 firmware to a tyt uv390 device so I think the drivers are working

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Re: Installation of New Firmware Stuck

Post by VK3KYY » Tue Feb 04, 2025 8:51 pm

TA2EGG wrote:
Tue Feb 04, 2025 7:35 pm
Sorry for the late reply. I found another pc to try it on I am getting the same errors in
original cps read and write
original firmware bin upload
opengd77 firmware upload
opengd77 cps read and write

nothing changed unfortunately my drivers and other software are in order.
If you have errors when using the official firmware and CPS then you probably have a hardware fault in the radio, or the connections to the radio or the powering of the radio etc.

This is not an OpenGD77 problem

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Re: Installation of New Firmware Stuck

Post by TA2EGG » Tue Feb 04, 2025 8:56 pm

The seller was able to restore the original firmware in Turkish to the device but when I tried to flash OpenGD77 again the same issue happened.

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Re: Installation of New Firmware Stuck

Post by VK3KYY » Tue Feb 04, 2025 9:44 pm

TA2EGG wrote:
Tue Feb 04, 2025 8:56 pm
The seller was able to restore the original firmware in Turkish to the device but when I tried to flash OpenGD77 again the same issue happened.
Possibly there is something non-standard with your radio.

Or you have some problem on your computer.

Did you ask the seller to install OpenGD77? i.e this will eliminate the possibility that the problem is your computer or PSU etc.


On rare occasions people have bought from suppliers who have custom commercial versions of various radios, and these may have a different bootloader which prevents non-official firmware being loaded.

The only way to install the firmware onto these non-standard radios is to directly connect to the hardware debug port pads on the PCB (SWD), and install a standard bootloader.

However I can only remember 1 person having one of these special radios, and I can't remember if it was a MD9600 /RT90 or a handheld

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Re: Installation of New Firmware Stuck

Post by TA2EGG » Wed Feb 05, 2025 6:35 am

I believe a non-standard bootloader is the issue I am just upset that it used to work when I installed it 2-3 months prior and worked without issue. I searched online for the original bootloader file to no avail do you have access to the bootloader or can you point me to the files. I don't think they will agree to installing OpenGD77 but I will try my luck. Thank you for your support.

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Re: Installation of New Firmware Stuck

Post by VK3KYY » Wed Feb 05, 2025 6:59 am

TA2EGG wrote:
Wed Feb 05, 2025 6:35 am
I believe a non-standard bootloader is the issue I am just upset that it used to work when I installed it 2-3 months prior and worked without issue. I searched online for the original bootloader file to no avail do you have access to the bootloader or can you point me to the files. I don't think they will agree to installing OpenGD77 but I will try my luck. Thank you for your support.
What hardware version of MD9600 do you have.

I think there may be more than one version of the MD9600, depending on the hardware version, but the OpenGD77CPS works with all normal versions of bootloader regardless of hardware version.


Someone will need to backup the MCU memory in their radio and post the file somewhere, because I don't have access to a MD9600 to do this at the moment



You will also need to open the radio and connect a hardware debugger to the CPU, e.g. a STLink.

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Re: Installation of New Firmware Stuck

Post by TA2EGG » Wed Feb 05, 2025 1:44 pm

It says 2311 in it without any VX text so I am assuming its a V5

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Re: Installation of New Firmware Stuck

Post by TA2EGG » Thu Feb 06, 2025 3:21 pm

I am really embarrassed, but I wanted to write how I fixed the issue, so people can see this and try what I didn't

I did not have access to another computer to assuming this was a driver issue, I just deleted my disks and reinstalled everything in my mind making it equivalent to another computer as VK3KYY suggested. The issue did not go away and when I talked with the seller on how they managed to fix it they just told me that they flashed the original firmware and it worked. I thought they were not telling me how they did it since the Turkish language firmware is their licensed product and did not want to share the details with me. I decided to get a completely new computer just to try it before sending it in one more time, and it worked. Then I switched the USB port on my computer and it worked. My radio is to the left of my device where there is only a single USB port and since my MD 390 device flashed fine from that port I never tried unplugging and moving the radio to the right-hand side using the other ports.

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Re: Installation of New Firmware Stuck

Post by VK3KYY » Thu Feb 06, 2025 8:55 pm

Thanks for sharing

BTW.

I can't use one of my PCs to install the firmware, because it crashes to blue-screen-of-death

I tried reinstalling the driver and many other things, but it always crashes

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