baofeng cable not recognized

[teufler]

Got a friend who bought two GT-3's after he saw mine. He has windows 7, same as I do. He can not get Chirp to recognized what com port the cable is using. We go to Control panel, devise manager and check what com port the cable is using. Then we go to chirp and assign that com port. Then we want to download up upload radio file changes and the com port is not available or is not recognized.. Go back to control panel, nothing has changed. Stumperd. The Baofeng software cause the computer screen to wiggle and bounce around badly. Same software I got through the GT-3 package. My computer is alittle older than the other person who is having difficulties but we are both running windows 7. Believe his is home professional while I have home basic.

 

[jonwienke]

Don't bother with Prolific-chip programming cables (<$10) or the Baofeng software. Use CHIRP and a cable with a FTDI chip. Much more reliable, much less hassle.

 

[teufler]

He brought one of his radios to my house,

 

[Hans13]

Have you looked at Miklor's site, "USB Cables and Drivers for Microsoft XP, Vista, W7 & W8" page? It might help. I would suggest going through the appropriate links and reading if you haven't already.

Cables & Drivers - Prolific & FTDI

 

[teufler]

radio and software

radios was read and programmed perfectly at my house. Same win 7 as he has, used my cabme and his cable, both checked out. Both his radio and mine have firmware bfb297. only difference is he is 64 bit and I am 32 bit.his cable is not recognized on his machine.

 

[Hans13]

Did you verify that both are running the same version driver for the cable? His could have auto-updated to a non-working driver.

 

[teufler]

Finaslly solved the problem. First had to go in Control panel, then go to devices and printers then click on each device until you find a device that gives you an option to device installation settings. Right click on each, when you find device installatrion settings, change to never install driver software. Then install the prolific driver 3.2 from Miklor. The cable to the radio is unplugged from the computer while this is going on.When completed, plug cable into usb port , windows will say its detected new usb port, then into the radio. The driver will not get over written by Windows, this is not the same as block software updates. Once this was done, the cable was recognized and a comport was established. Then make sure you plug into the same usb port everytime else you are looking to set a comport again. While the Baofeng radios work good, the software hookup was much harder than the Yaesu or Kenwoods I have done in the past. Computer expertise was much higher and frustrating but when its done, it smooth sailing. I wish there was a way to sort the frequencies. I've tried to export a csv file, go to excell, sort a column, then reread the file with Chirp but you can not program with a csv file. So its a manual operation to rewrite the radio file, in frequency order. This frequency order is nice when you are navigating to a new frequency you have programmed. You know which way to go, up or down, rather than playing spin the dial hoping to run into what you want.