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Vintage 2016 G5 PPS Connection Issue

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I've got a 2016 vintage G5 (Firmware V0.90-014A-R11N2) and am trying to program it using the latest PPS (V0.3.16.24) - I lost the PPS that was current back in 2016. When I plug the USB into my Win10 laptop, the OS recognizes the pager's serial comm port, but PPS will not communicate with it. The Connection bubble continues to show "0", and attempts to read or write to the pager does nothing (just warnings of no connection).

I also tried to use the latest Firmware update utility, and it also can not connect to the pager (it only produces a "network error").

The pager does power on, and seems to still scan and receive, and has a new battery.

Any ideas on how to get things to communicate again, or will I need to send this into Unication to have a manual firmware update done to it?
 
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