In any case, its pretty bad customer service.
It is bad customer service from Uniden Japan not Uniden US. Start emailing the link in post #3 and ask them why nothing is available for the E version it is on them and not Uniden US.
In any case, its pretty bad customer service.
Does anyone know if the SDS100 only loads the firmware from the sdcard and doesn't save to an internal rom? I wonder what might happen if you copied an SDS100 firmware to the SDS100E sdcard.
I think the most likely issue is going to be US band restrictions and perhaps licensing restrictions. As far as software development time, expense and technical issues, i can't think of any good reason Uniden don't make firmwares available for both regions simultaneously. Unless there is some considerable hardware issues i am unaware of. It would probably take a dev a few hours to make their build system spit out two binaries with different band configs. I expect Uniden US is completely capable of doing this, but perhaps is restricted by a license agreement or something.... In any case, its pretty bad customer service.
For those in the know there is no reason...What's the reason for buying eu and aussie versions?
What's the reason for buying eu and aussie versions? The warranty aspect if something would break during the first year? They open up the blocked 800-900Mhz frequencies and close database usage but are anyone using the blocked frequencies for 2-way radio in eu or au? It's not like they make the bandplan more suitable so that reverse and repeater lists are changed to match each country.
I would like to see Uniden USA make the different settings for a bandplan fully programmable and then have Avery distribute the US model. If someone wants those blocked frequencies it could be done with a special flag set in the fixed internal memory that only let the user load the correct firmware, the same way AOR do it, and Uniden only needs to make the code look for the non-US flag and skip the check and use the same firmware for all versions.
/Ubbe
Im tried to reneme SDS-100_V1_07_02.BIN to SDS100E_V1_07_02.BIN and SDS100E-SUB_V1_02_00.firm, but after rebooting the scanner, firmware error and the scanner comes back to the old firmware, BUT with the uploaded file SDS-100-SUB_V1_02_00.firm, and after that it does not listen to analog signals=)Does anyone know if the SDS100 only loads the firmware from the sdcard and doesn't save to an internal rom? I wonder what might happen if you copied an SDS100 firmware to the SDS100E sdcard.
I think the most likely issue is going to be US band restrictions and perhaps licensing restrictions. As far as software development time, expense and technical issues, i can't think of any good reason Uniden don't make firmwares available for both regions simultaneously. Unless there is some considerable hardware issues i am unaware of. It would probably take a dev a few hours to make their build system spit out two binaries with different band configs. I expect Uniden US is completely capable of doing this, but perhaps is restricted by a license agreement or something.... In any case, its pretty bad customer service.