TonyJames666
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I have noticed sellers on eBay have the flashcode details of their APX radios. With Akardam down, how are they doing it? Is there a site somewhere or software that does it? I have googled it to death and come up with nothing.
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APX flashcode decoder???
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There is a small group that have some tools running around they keep tight and are using those
TonyJames666
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Oh, Okay. Thanks.
clbsquared
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Until Motorola loosens their grip, I doubt you will ever see it in the open again.
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Taking away this tool from hobbyist accomplishes nothing for Motorola. All they care about is profit, they're not gaining or loosing anything monetarily by banning this tool. Motorola sucks ! A once well respected company with knowledgeable engineering producing high quality products is now a cesspool for bottom of the barrel last in class engineering interns producing flawed firmware and less then par hardware as compared to 15-20 years ago. Very sad.
Not to mention their APX CPS sucks.
Their main deal was people buying basic radios, people using the decoders to use a illegal thing to flash them loaded with unpaid features, then rereshing the firmware to mask the source. If you add up the costs of the sales online sometimes more than what a basic apx goes for from them and used being more online loaded, you can see where theyd feel monetary loss. Has never been about hobby crowd. Mostly bone the greedy few who buy stock basic used radios and load them crazy with features most will never use or touch.
If you think it's bad now wait till it requires a phone home every time to run cps, validation of features and cps before reading.
They could require you bump up to a tool proof firmware version before getting any firmware updates.
Being they solved that illegal issue with server type access on running a simple exe people can't get what they once stole.
I see the cps eventually going to a server type deal or heavy authentication.
If you think it's bad now wait till it requires a phone home every time to run cps, validation of features and cps before reading.
They could require you bump up to a tool proof firmware version before getting any firmware updates.
Being they solved that illegal issue with server type access on running a simple exe people can't get what they once stole.
I see the cps eventually going to a server type deal or heavy authentication.
It's back!
TonyJames666
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Yes it is! Great. Helps me out a lot.
With mother M cps for the APX radio does suck it should look like the XTL or XTS CPS I love that and easy to use.
Project25_MASTR
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It's about as easy. APX CPS is a blend between Astro (where each personality was unique) and Astro 25 (where the zone channel info contains the unique bits). There are some things that the APX CPS doesn't do well (it's slow for one) but the Astro 25 CPS doesn't do much any better.
APX CPS blows the Astro25 out of the water. Just being able to name the personalities is a huge help. You can cut and paste channel names and frequencies from an Excel spreadsheet right into CPS. The ability to copy and paste between code plugs work great compared with exporting pick lists. There is a learning curve and the early versions sucked but I think it's pretty good. The only CPS I find easier is the OLD MotoTRBO (16.0)
I'll have to agree with you about the personality naming ability. However, until they make the top display auto populate, I don't care about any other updates they do. If the name is too long, make it go red and I can trunicate if need be.
radioman2001
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Motorola used to use server based software back in the 80's for all their trunking radios so nothing new.
TCMS was supposed to stop field programming, but once SAFP found it's way out that went out the window (yeah, I'm old
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Same here LOL, plus you could clone as many radios on the trunking sysytem as you wanted by just changing the serial number of the downloaded file.
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