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What does the UCM upgrade file do?

MatthiasTHM

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In the past, I have purchased a Motorola XTS 2500 from eBay from a seller. When I received the package, it also came with a disk that had the firmware upgrades as well as the UCM upgrade file. I am not sure what that file can do, and I would like to know before I do anything with it. My XTS5000 (recently bought) has hardware encryption on the radio, but I am not sure what the file can do to the radio and I don't want to brick it. What does the UCM upgrade file do and how does it get installed properly?

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Echo4Thirty

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It just updates the firmware in the UCM to 5.07.15 which is the final release. It is also the matching release to the HOST/DSP firmware package it was distributed with.

When you do a firmware update, there is a box to check to update the UCM and select that file.
 
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