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Downgrading from RPM to ProGrammer version of flash

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I know that its been talked about before, and a hint of a procedure being written... but not seen anything.

Knowing that later versions of flash which require RPM to configure a radio are completely incompatible with Programmer, even to the point of not being able to blindly overwrite a personality. But if a situation calls for downgrading the flash so a radio can be used with Programmer, is the process really as simple as carefully: extract ESN & feature data string, and then using the old Radio Maint, do a 'Recovery' with a Programmer-friendly version of flash?
Or is there more to it than that? Can the tracking data somehow be extracted with Radio Maint before doing a Recovery...perhaps via HDT if enabled?

Also is there a matrix of what flash loads are compatible with what software (programmer & RPM) revisions for applicable radios (700P, 725M, P7100, M7100 etc)

Thanks in anticipation,
 
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I just found the answer - the attached (an extract of MS101648 software release notes) details the process.

Hmm, looks like I'm going to need a RPM bootloader file (R0R08B03.bin) to achieve this. Drat, not as easy as I thought.

Unless someone knows another way around this?
 

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