I have a Motorola XPR 8300 that I’ve successfully been rebuilding. It had extensive corrosion but I’ve managed to repair most of it. My next roadblock is proper firmware. It’s currently running version 01.03.03. I’ve done some digging online and have been unable to find the necessary files to bring it up to date. If someone would be able to provide guidance on how to obtain them or happens to have them that would greatly be appreciated. From my understanding I need to upgrade in steps for it to work properly.
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XPR 8300 Firmware
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RadioGuy7268
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Asked and answered previously. I notice you still did not mention what functionality your current repeater lacked, or what you were hoping to gain by 'improving' the Firmware.
My repeater firmware doesn’t support digital operation or multi operation (analog+digital simultaneously). It also doesn’t support any features being activated because it is one of the earlier firmwares. This is why it needs a firmware upgrade!
You don't need a firmware update, you need to add entitlements for those features which was a purchase item. No longer available.
The options were available in later firmware revisions. They aren’t even an option to be enabled currently.
Let me be clear. Even if you update the firmware to support those options, you would have to order those features individually from Motorola and install them using CPS. Since the XPR8300 is way out of support I see the chances of getting those are pretty much nil.
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He just needs to find the right guy who can fix all this. They are out there.
The licenses for the XPR repeaters are the same part numbers as the SLR ones, and are still orderable. But I’m not sure if licenses can still be activated in CPS16, might need to bring the repeater firmware up to something that will work with CPS2.0.
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