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Kenwood VM5000 mobile programming question

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Stonehawk

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Good morning!

I am the department programmer for a few departments, and am just starting to work on the VM-5000 series. Loving the Armada software for our VP5000 and VP6000 radios, but I have a very simple question. In previous iterations of radios, it was a simple plug and play to connect to the radios to read/write.

In trying to connect to the microUSB cable on the back of the mobiles, I get no radio connection. Is there something I am missing to be able to connect and work on these radios? I have the proper .key and .akey files and have been successfully working on our portables, but cannot seem to connect to the mobiles to even see the radios.

I am positive it is something simple, but I cannot figure it out.

Thanks for reading!

Jerry
 
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I just upgraded to the 1.40.13.128, and also just uploaded the original codeplugs from our radio provisioner, I am thinking that might do the trick. I now see the selection option of VM5000/VM6000/VM7000. I will try it this morning.

Jerry
 
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If the mobile has WiFi turned on and enabled in the existing configuration you have to turn off WiFi to connect your laptop directly. Make sure there is a WIFI menu option present, it's set to a button, or you have it enabled on the softkey menu. Otherwise, it should connect. What is amazing is the VM7000 stack if you have a USB hub you can simply connect all the bricks at once and mass upgrade everything. Takes a while but it works pretty smoothly.
 
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