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Thales/Racal 25 stopped during update

Thread starter TDR-94
Start date Feb 6, 2015

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TDR-94

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Feb 6, 2015

Does anyone have any experience with trying to recover a Thales/Racal 25 after it stopped updating in the middle of a firmware update ?

The software keeps giving me an error that it can't find the radio serial number or another for can't find radio frame, after performing the manual's suggested process of shorting pins 17 and 18 together and turning on the radio and trying the update process again. I've had no luck getting it to do anything now.The radio does nothing,just a blank screen.It only beeps in intervals when you perform the pin shorting process to try and recover it.

Everything was going fine and then it said it couldn't find the radio frame and the process stopped after progressing for a while.Not sure what happened,but now it's a brick!