Fed_Interopman
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So I recently received some APX8500's. The first I've had to deal with. Initially I treated them like any other APX I've worked with and developed a codeplug template that I was going to clone into them.
Now these radios were not optioned by me, they were optioned by a Motorola Rep I know. He's a salesman. So, you know, he's going to throw the whole option catalog at you in a quote if you let him. My recommendations are somewhat more austere because I know which options I need and don't need to accommodate our system configuration and functionality. In any case, he sold the buying unit the WiFi option, even though we don't use it. Fine, whatever if you've got the extra cash?
Now, the cloning scenario...
I've gone ahead and provisioned the radios in the system once I learned their serial numbers. I fire up CPS v30.00.00 (also the first time I used this version). I connect via USB cable. I read the ser# and change the ID's and hit the clone button. I use an ASK so I'm used to seeing a pop up, but this time the pop up is asking for a WiFi login. It won't write/clone to the radio I have connected until it gets the WiFi password. I check my settings, sure enough I see that it is set for USB cable use and remember I'd just read the serial # from it? I'm flummoxed. On a lark, I back out (the particular radio I have connected happens to be the codeplug I used to make my template) and do a standard WRITE operation and it works. I can write directly to the radio, but not clone. I need to be able to clone for the rest of them unless I want to read each factory codeplug then do a top level drag and drop each and every time. That's not going to work for me! Sometimes random data points get corrupted and I'm not wanting the headache of checking every feature and option in the codeplug.
I start going through the codeplug looking for the WiFi option and eventually find it under the Data Configuration>Data Wide and I see that WiFi is defaulted to ENABLED. First off, WHY?! Secondly, WHY, when you have a USB cable attached to the radio does it STILL want a WiFi password in order to clone? I mean, practically every time I use a new version of CPS they hose something up? Those of you who use Motorola CPS know what I mean!
So I disable the WiFi and sure enough I'm able to clone normally.
I had to read the factory codeplug, change the WiFi setting, write it back into it, then clone my template ALL because Motorola ships radios optioned with WiFi with it defaulted to ENABLED.
ENJOY!
Edited to add pop up image
Now these radios were not optioned by me, they were optioned by a Motorola Rep I know. He's a salesman. So, you know, he's going to throw the whole option catalog at you in a quote if you let him. My recommendations are somewhat more austere because I know which options I need and don't need to accommodate our system configuration and functionality. In any case, he sold the buying unit the WiFi option, even though we don't use it. Fine, whatever if you've got the extra cash?
Now, the cloning scenario...
I've gone ahead and provisioned the radios in the system once I learned their serial numbers. I fire up CPS v30.00.00 (also the first time I used this version). I connect via USB cable. I read the ser# and change the ID's and hit the clone button. I use an ASK so I'm used to seeing a pop up, but this time the pop up is asking for a WiFi login. It won't write/clone to the radio I have connected until it gets the WiFi password. I check my settings, sure enough I see that it is set for USB cable use and remember I'd just read the serial # from it? I'm flummoxed. On a lark, I back out (the particular radio I have connected happens to be the codeplug I used to make my template) and do a standard WRITE operation and it works. I can write directly to the radio, but not clone. I need to be able to clone for the rest of them unless I want to read each factory codeplug then do a top level drag and drop each and every time. That's not going to work for me! Sometimes random data points get corrupted and I'm not wanting the headache of checking every feature and option in the codeplug.
I start going through the codeplug looking for the WiFi option and eventually find it under the Data Configuration>Data Wide and I see that WiFi is defaulted to ENABLED. First off, WHY?! Secondly, WHY, when you have a USB cable attached to the radio does it STILL want a WiFi password in order to clone? I mean, practically every time I use a new version of CPS they hose something up? Those of you who use Motorola CPS know what I mean!
So I disable the WiFi and sure enough I'm able to clone normally.
I had to read the factory codeplug, change the WiFi setting, write it back into it, then clone my template ALL because Motorola ships radios optioned with WiFi with it defaulted to ENABLED.
ENJOY!
Edited to add pop up image
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