XTS4000 UHF codeplug

[saberthree]

hey all, Im looking for a XTS4000 UHF codeplug. I had the radio for quite some time but put it away for awhile. Recently, I picked it up again to mess with it but unfortunately my laptop, along with the codeplug data is gone (friend borrowed it but passed away, dont know where his parents live) I dont recall the password for reading and writing but Im sure I can eventually figure out the password. Is there a way to upload a new codeplug through the CPS or make a copy of the codeplug from the radio and modify the codeplug via hex to remove the password? from what I understand, you can do something similar to this with the XTS5000, and from what I hear, the XTS4000 and XTS5000 is pretty much the same radio internally. what are my options to resolve this? radio works fine, i just want to be able to access it again and reprogram some frequencies. I do have a newer version of the CPS, would that be an issue? the radio has R19, i have R20. i wasnt sure if the radio and cps has to match in order for me to modify the radio, i assume i would need to upgrade the radio first to R20 but I cant do that unless I have access to the codeplug

 

[lookforthe1]

i wish they made this radio in uhf2

 

[saberthree]

i wish they made this radio in uhf2

might be able to do an out of band hex edit?

 

[lookforthe1]

might be able to do an out of band hex edit?

it wont go to what i need on the tx side

 

[N4KVL]

I would recommend you sending this radio to someone that knows what they are doing with it.

Sending you a codeplug will not solve your problem.

 

[saberthree]

I would recommend you sending this radio to someone that knows what they are doing with it.

Sending you a codeplug will not solve your problem.

I found a way with hexedit to pull the password and access the radio again to read and write, problem solved. My big thing now is doing the firmware updates. I recently found out that if I use the spicy version of CPS, the firmware updates don't really count without using the ibutton. I don't really know if that's true or not. I thought the spicy depot would bypass that all together

 

[lookforthe1]

I found a way with hexedit to pull the password and access the radio again to read and write, problem solved. My big thing now is doing the firmware updates. I recently found out that if I use the spicy version of CPS, the firmware updates don't really count without using the ibutton. I don't really know if that's true or not. I thought the spicy depot would bypass that all together

please pm on how you did this

 

[N4KVE]

My big thing now is doing the firmware updates. I thought the spicy depot would bypass that all together

It does. A FW update is a FW update no matter how you do it.

 

[saberthree]

It does. A FW update is a FW update no matter how you do it.

I was talking to a radio tech who has much more experience, but I think he might have confused what I was talking about in regards to zipflash (not doing that). He was talking about how it doesn't count unless you do the ibutton thing to make it official so it might not have cleared the bug fixes. I straightened it out and I think you're right on the firmware thing

 

[mikewazowski]

I think it's time to take this discussion off site. We don't need any more spicy tools around here.