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Taking the plunge into TRBO CPS 2.0
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Are you making use of talker alias and how does it perform?
I hated TRBO CPS 2.x versions.
I played with it when it became available to me on the MOL site but I didn't like it.
It just seemed very counterintuitive compared to the older TRBO 16.x CPS version.
I continued using the older version and still do to this day for most radios but I accidentally let a portable take a firmware update under the first 2.x release and of course I couldn't go back so I must keep 2.0 CPS up to date and installed for that one portable.
As far as the radios that have CPS 2.x features available, I can live without those features and keep using TRBO 16.x build 828.
At some point I'm sure a unit will need a trip to the Depot for a repair. I understand when that happens, it will come back flashed with the latest firmware and will then need to be programmed by TRBO 2.xxx going forward. Motorola should give users the option to flash or not flash Depot serviced radios to the latest version but I'm pretty sure they don't offer that option.
I played with it when it became available to me on the MOL site but I didn't like it.
It just seemed very counterintuitive compared to the older TRBO 16.x CPS version.
I continued using the older version and still do to this day for most radios but I accidentally let a portable take a firmware update under the first 2.x release and of course I couldn't go back so I must keep 2.0 CPS up to date and installed for that one portable.
As far as the radios that have CPS 2.x features available, I can live without those features and keep using TRBO 16.x build 828.
At some point I'm sure a unit will need a trip to the Depot for a repair. I understand when that happens, it will come back flashed with the latest firmware and will then need to be programmed by TRBO 2.xxx going forward. Motorola should give users the option to flash or not flash Depot serviced radios to the latest version but I'm pretty sure they don't offer that option.
Did that radio that was inadvertently upgraded get flashed with 2.10 or one of the newer M202x.x revs? If it was 2.10 I understand that that is still a CPS 16 compatible codeplug and doing a recovery from CPS 16 may fix that for you. As long as it's not running M2021.1 there is a way back... (and possibly even then there may be a way with certain tools)
Just wait until you have to send an SLR8000 that is not the master in a system. When it comes back with the newest crap, you have all kinds of problems until you pay for SUM and update ALL your repeaters to the newest FW release. #@#$#$^ !!!
2.9 and 2.10 are the same codeplug level, you can program a 2.10 radio with CPS 16 828 if that's what it was flashed to 2.10 with.
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@com501 -- Similar issues with XPR subscribers coming back from depot with unrequested updates. But I thought the SLR8000 line was new enough that the SUM was a No Charge just license update / recovery ? The manufacture by cut off I though was June 30th, 2018, but that may not be correct..
Firebuff880
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No they are not !!
2018 -- R2.09. CPS 16.0 Build 828
2019 -- R2.10 CPS 2 2.18.95.0
2020 -- M2020 CPS 2 2.26.203.0 ( Software Update Management (SUM) required)
M2020.02 -- First release of Talker Alias and In Band GPS reporting.
2021 -- M2021 CPS 2 2.110.120.0
There are at least two drops per year / release and sometimes multiples below the two majors.
I said codeplug version. Codeplug version and firmware version and CPS version are not the same things.
CPS 16 828 - FW 2.09 - Codeplug Version 14
After looking up the release notes for 2.10 it seems it is codeplug version 15. I was under the impression that it was at the same level making 2.10 compatible with both CPS 16 and CPS 2.0. But looks like that's not the case.
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