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Hello all,

I recently acquired an EF Johnson 242-5113-620-BB handheld off of eBay. I made the mistake of using PC Tune to wipe the EEPROM instead of the User Params, and now I am getting BAD ESN on the display. The firmware on it was 1.18.15 when I started it up, but now I need to get something back onto it to make it work again.

Is this something someone can help me get working again? I would love to avoid the price tag of sending it back to EF Johnson if possible. I cannot find firmware for any of the Series 1 radios anywhere - only 4 and up. Is it possible to flash the 1.18.15 back to it to make it happy?

Thanks in advance!
 
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It might be possible, but you basically made it into a brick, you wiped its identity out. Without the tuning info in the main blocks of the rom, it's in a veggie state.

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