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TIDRadio? Knockoff of a chinese brand? Cannot program!

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My mom got this radio for christmas last year, it looks like a baofeng of some sort, has the same exact menus and functions the same as a baofeng. The plate on the back says its a TD-UV85. The problem is CHIRP doesn't have a TIDRADIO brand option and the baofeng options do not work. If you go to the radio's website (www.walkietalkiesoftware.com) it is a really sketchy site and the downloads for the software have viruses in them. I tried a virtual machine (to keep viruses contained) but the software always fails to connect to the radio. (Before you say it's the VM's fault, I tried without a VM but a sandbox, also did not work. The COM port of the programming cable was selected so it should have worked. Plus the website doesn't even have software for this radio anyway.
I know I can program stuff in manually but you cannot set the name of each memory.
Does anyone know how I can program this radio using chirp?
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Always best to acquire manufacturer programming software BEFORE making the purchase. (I know you didn't buy the radio, so it was kinda pointless to for me to post that, sorry)

I did some looking and couldn't find anything. Sorry.
 
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