K4APR
Member
Well, I finally did it. I bought a TRX-2. I am already frustrated with it and I haven't even had the first chance to scan anything yet.
I started off with downloading a fresh version of EZ Scan, Updater and the driver .inf file.
Install of EZ Scan went fine. I powered up the unit and I immediately did a CPU update. It was a bit cumbersome, but the update completed. Updating the DSP is another story. No matter how many times I tried, it would get as far as downloading the file, the radio would power down and then it would go into a USB charging mode. If I manually turned the radio on, the software would eventually error out and crash. Now I am constantly getting the dreaded "Waiting for main unit" error. I have now done about ten cycles of pulling the power and head, waiting about a minute and then powering it back up. It keeps happening and I'm hoping these CPU and DSP updates will fix that.
With the Updater utility, I am attempting the hold Menu button and plug in USB. I eventually get an indication that the scanner is seen by Windows and I can verify a com port of COM5 assigned. If I select it and test, I get an error. I can't get past this point. I have spent more time resetting it than working the issues.
I can tell you that when I did the CPU upgrade, the firmware prior to update was in the 1.x range. I think it was updated to 4.4.
Any suggestions? I was hoping to take this on a trip this weekend, but now I'm considering boxing it back up and exercising my Amazon return policy. It's really disappointing, because I was excited to finally get one of these. I didn't think it would be this trying of my patience and I have been working with GRE scanner for over 15 years.
I started off with downloading a fresh version of EZ Scan, Updater and the driver .inf file.
Install of EZ Scan went fine. I powered up the unit and I immediately did a CPU update. It was a bit cumbersome, but the update completed. Updating the DSP is another story. No matter how many times I tried, it would get as far as downloading the file, the radio would power down and then it would go into a USB charging mode. If I manually turned the radio on, the software would eventually error out and crash. Now I am constantly getting the dreaded "Waiting for main unit" error. I have now done about ten cycles of pulling the power and head, waiting about a minute and then powering it back up. It keeps happening and I'm hoping these CPU and DSP updates will fix that.
With the Updater utility, I am attempting the hold Menu button and plug in USB. I eventually get an indication that the scanner is seen by Windows and I can verify a com port of COM5 assigned. If I select it and test, I get an error. I can't get past this point. I have spent more time resetting it than working the issues.
I can tell you that when I did the CPU upgrade, the firmware prior to update was in the 1.x range. I think it was updated to 4.4.
Any suggestions? I was hoping to take this on a trip this weekend, but now I'm considering boxing it back up and exercising my Amazon return policy. It's really disappointing, because I was excited to finally get one of these. I didn't think it would be this trying of my patience and I have been working with GRE scanner for over 15 years.