Not a problem. I've got a server full of profiles (Unication), personalities (Harris) and codeplugs (Motorola) at home.
Is there a special process to the "downgrade" or simply run the 1.31 FW updater?
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G5 operating questions before i buy
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Not a problem. I've got a server full of profiles (Unication), personalities (Harris) and codeplugs (Motorola) at home.
Is there a special process to the "downgrade" or simply run the 1.31 FW updater?
Actually the Hold and Delete functions would be handy even for the professional market. If I were a fire chief purchasing these things for official alerting and monitoring, I'd have it set up with one knob position for "night" use (alerting), another for "on duty" use (alerting and monitoring), and a third for off-duty "casual" listening, with the profile password-protected so the eager young space cadet it's issued to couldn't dork up the programming on his own.
Yes, run the updater, mine gave an error and said it was wiping it clean then reloaded. Then I just reloaded profile. The hold function is nice.
The only two features I'm really after are talkgroup hold and nuisance delete; multi-site scanning would be nice, too, but not as much as the other two.
I'll give it a shot on my work G5.
Tom
Tom,I did this on sat, no issue g5 had beta 1.4 now have 1.31.
I went a little dif I took revo uninstaller deleted all older pps from PC.
Started fresh with PPS for firm 1.31 and did all new RR imports,again no issue for me.
I went a little dif I took revo uninstaller deleted all older pps from PC.
Started fresh with PPS for firm 1.31 and did all new RR imports,again no issue for me.
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That would never work for me here in Michigan. MPSCS is the largest public safety communications network in the U.S. It has over 32,000 Talk-Groups! Of course I don't have the need to monitor all of them, or even a fraction them. But Macomb County alone has more than 180 public safety Talk-Groups!
Moved my work G5 back to v1.31 with no problem once I moved over to the Toughbook I normally use for programming. I started out on my 2019 MacBook Pro (running Win7 as a virtual machine); it used to work fine but for some reason Windoze now refuses to recognize the pager when it's plugged in, even after reinstalling the driver. Still recognizes every other dang USB thing I plug into it though. and even more confusing, it works fine on my 2016 Macbook Pro (also running Win7 as a VM).
Anyway, all back to normal and I was able to use the work G5 codeplug on my personal G5, thus saving hours of programming time.
You need to install the USB driver for the G5 in WIndows.
I find that on VMWare Fusion, I had to dumb down the virtual USB controller to USB 2.0 in order to get things working right for finicky apps/hardware that interface with USB. Perhaps something like that can be done with Parallels, too?
You might want to set this in WIndows Updates. It may be that Window Updates keeps overwriting your proper drivers with ones of it's own.
I don't use Windoze 10 for that very reason; as I noted previously my virtual machines are Win 7. Updates are set so I can review them before anything gets installed, and of course all I get these days are Windows Defender updates.
I had a bad experience with Win10 in my professional life when I went out on a programming trip only to find when I got there that Win10 had overwritten all of the Motorola and Harris radio drivers on my work laptop, so I had to drive all the way back to the office and reinstall the drivers. Happened again a week later before I realized what had happened, at which point I told the Data Center "thanks but no thanks" in regard to Win10, and stayed with Win7.
I don't have a file for you, but the software is available for free on unication's website.
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