sempai
Member
Hi,
I built an honest-to-goodness Windows 10 workstation for radio shenanigans and I had been using Whistler EZ Scan great for a few weeks. Something went weird in the last few days though and I was prompted for an update and I said sure and now it boots to a "CPU SW Upgrade: Waiting for USB" screen.
I pulled one of the batteries out to make it easy to powercycle via the USB cable.
When I run the standalone CPU updater from Whistler, CPUUpdater_WS1080_U4.8, it does see it on COM3 and it also says "hey wow you have no firmware at all that's weird let me fix that" and I say "sure go nuts" and the progress bar makes it all the way to the end and then once the last piece fills in it immediately pops up a modal dialog box "Scanner response timeout!" and my scanner's LCD reads:
uP Boot Ver: 2.0
uP App Ver: None
CPU SW Upgrade:
Upgrading - Wait
and it'll do that for as long as I let it. This is totally repeatable; I've tried it a dozen times today. I even ensured the really-bad-idea-Whistler-needs-security-engineering-team-allow-unsigned-drivers was enabled, and that the Whistler COM port name is correct (Whistler WS1080 Serial Device (COM3)) and I even tweaked a few options in there (changed baud rate from 9600 to 4800 to 57.6 and back to 9600, then changed buffer sizes down to whatever "4" correlates to) with no apparent change.
Sometimes under some circumstances like if I initiate the update from inside EzScan it ends up the same but one of the photos I took today was with the LCD readout saying "CPU SW Upgrade: Error - Turn Off" and then after restarting it that's when it started saying there was no CPU firmware installed.
It says "waiting for USB" when idle and then will hang out with "Upgrading - Wait" and I don't know what I'm missing.
My radio workstation is running Windows 10 Enterprise, Version 10.0.19044 Build 19044.
thanks for reading, hope someone can help me get back on the air!
I built an honest-to-goodness Windows 10 workstation for radio shenanigans and I had been using Whistler EZ Scan great for a few weeks. Something went weird in the last few days though and I was prompted for an update and I said sure and now it boots to a "CPU SW Upgrade: Waiting for USB" screen.
I pulled one of the batteries out to make it easy to powercycle via the USB cable.
When I run the standalone CPU updater from Whistler, CPUUpdater_WS1080_U4.8, it does see it on COM3 and it also says "hey wow you have no firmware at all that's weird let me fix that" and I say "sure go nuts" and the progress bar makes it all the way to the end and then once the last piece fills in it immediately pops up a modal dialog box "Scanner response timeout!" and my scanner's LCD reads:
uP Boot Ver: 2.0
uP App Ver: None
CPU SW Upgrade:
Upgrading - Wait
and it'll do that for as long as I let it. This is totally repeatable; I've tried it a dozen times today. I even ensured the really-bad-idea-Whistler-needs-security-engineering-team-allow-unsigned-drivers was enabled, and that the Whistler COM port name is correct (Whistler WS1080 Serial Device (COM3)) and I even tweaked a few options in there (changed baud rate from 9600 to 4800 to 57.6 and back to 9600, then changed buffer sizes down to whatever "4" correlates to) with no apparent change.
Sometimes under some circumstances like if I initiate the update from inside EzScan it ends up the same but one of the photos I took today was with the LCD readout saying "CPU SW Upgrade: Error - Turn Off" and then after restarting it that's when it started saying there was no CPU firmware installed.
It says "waiting for USB" when idle and then will hang out with "Upgrading - Wait" and I don't know what I'm missing.
My radio workstation is running Windows 10 Enterprise, Version 10.0.19044 Build 19044.
thanks for reading, hope someone can help me get back on the air!