Do you have a Chirp image from a UV-5RA with the N5R-213 BFB297 firmware?

[simonwex]

I have UV-5RA radio that I programmed using Chirp and works perfectly. A friend of mine brought over his new UV-5RA and I tried to upload my program to it, not realizing it was not the identical firmware.

Now his radio won't receive because the image I flashed it with causes it to require an RX tone (or at least the same effect)

I'm pretty confident that if I can get a base image from any UV-5RA with the right version of firmware all will be good again, and I can just load the program from a CSV export.

Does anyone have a radio with the firmware that reads: N5R-213 BFB297? I've found each of these as separate images here: Index of /uv5r/programming/CHIRPrecovery

But nothing that works with this radio. The error I get when trying one of the recovery images is this:

RadioError: Upload finished, but the 'Other Settings' could not be sent because the firmware version of the image ( Ver BFB297 ) does not match that of the radio (N5R-213BFB297 ).

 

[SeniorBasic819]

I have a UV5RA with the BFB297 firmware. However reading through the information on the internet it says the firmware can't be changed. So I am not sure if loading a Chirp image with that firmware will fix it. Have you tried doing a hard reset on the radio? If you'd like, I can send you a blank upload of the stock read from a UV5RA, not sure if it would help though. Just let me know and I can try and get it to you.

 

[KC9HI]

I have UV-5RA radio that I programmed using Chirp and works perfectly. A friend of mine brought over his new UV-5RA and I tried to upload my program to it, not realizing it was not the identical firmware.

Now his radio won't receive because the image I flashed it with causes it to require an RX tone (or at least the same effect)

I'm pretty confident that if I can get a base image from any UV-5RA with the right version of firmware all will be good again, and I can just load the program from a CSV export.

Does anyone have a radio with the firmware that reads: N5R-213 BFB297? I've found each of these as separate images here: Index of /uv5r/programming/CHIRPrecovery

But nothing that works with this radio. The error I get when trying one of the recovery images is this:

RadioError: Upload finished, but the 'Other Settings' could not be sent because the firmware version of the image ( Ver BFB297 ) does not match that of the radio (N5R-213BFB297 ).

According to what CHIRP is telling you, you are attempting to upload a "BFB297" .img file to your radio. This .img file was saved from a radio having BFB297 firmware. Your radio has "N5R-213" firmware.

You must not upload an .img file created from a radio having BFB (or BFS) firmware into a radio having N5R firmware.

You must not upload an .img file created from a radio having N5R firmware into a radio having BFB (or BFS) firmware.

Which version of CHIRP are you using. The most recent CHIRP daily builds will not let you do this. You will get a warning at the beginning of the transfer, not at the end like you are getting. And for this reason, it is not currently recommended that the CHIRP stable build be use by anyone wanting to program a UV-5R (or one of its many variants).

If you do cross-load a BFB data file with and radio with N5R firmware, or an N5R data file with a radio with BFB firmware, your radio will behave as you describe. You will have to perform the recovery procedure described on the Miklor.com website.

The .img file that you need for the radio that you were uploading to above is N5R-213(140906N)(factory).img

Once you get the radio recovered, the recommended method to transfer the channels from the existing .img file to the new radio is to use the CHIRP import feature. There is no need to bother with a .CSV file.

File -> Import, then change the file mask to "CHIRP Radio Images (*.img)"

The .img import method also works across radio models and brands (I've loaded my Baofeng UV-5R channels into my Wouxun KG-UV6D using this method).

Jim KC9HI