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Re: Code plug read/write error

Posted: Fri Jan 03, 2020 9:55 pm
by VK3KYY
My port number is normally 71, so I don’t think this is related to the port number

Re: Code plug read/write error fixed?

Posted: Sat Jan 04, 2020 2:16 am
by KB8AOB
Not sure what did it but I got a new blank cp to write to the radio. I used the cps new command to write with a fresh download of the open cps software (did I notice a recent update?) and it went the first time! I then downloaded the cp, modified it a bit and uploaded again with no problems.

Now wondering if I was using the “stock” cp modified by the open cps software to upload before??? :shock:

Rich

Re: Code plug read/write error fixed?

Posted: Sat Jan 04, 2020 2:35 am
by VK3KYY
KB8AOB wrote:
Sat Jan 04, 2020 2:16 am
Not sure what did it but I got a new blank cp to write to the radio. I used the cps new command to write with a fresh download of the open cps software (did I notice a recent update?) and it went the first time! I then downloaded the cp, modified it a bit and uploaded again with no problems.

Now wondering if I was using the “stock” cp modified by the open cps software to upload before??? :shock:

Rich
Potentially this could be a problem if the EEPROM does not respond fast enough and perhaps causes the USB to timeout.

Is this an old or a new radio ? There were issues with very old GD-77 radios, where we think they fitted cheaper / clone EEPROM chips which seem to be slower.

We also think this is the reason that the official firmware gets amnesia and doesnt remember which channel the radio was left on, as the official firmware probably doesn't bother to check whether the data has actually been written, especially when the radio is turned off.

Re: Code plug read/write error

Posted: Sat Jan 04, 2020 12:37 pm
by KB8AOB
New I assume, see image. The com port was 5 in the past but it did not even pause to ask or display.
Image

Re: Code plug read/write error

Posted: Sun Jan 05, 2020 1:15 am
by prattmd
Tried the newest opengd77 CPS
My radio serial must be old, 1705A series

Re: Code plug read/write error

Posted: Sat Mar 14, 2020 8:29 pm
by jrd210
Had the same write error as the first post on my Windows 10 Desktop, reloaded everything straight to a Windows 10 laptop and success first time--weird error, ports were low numbers??? No idea what the problem is but it is now working fine (on my laptop).

Re: Code plug read/write error

Posted: Sat Mar 14, 2020 10:39 pm
by jrd210
Follow up--it did not run on the windows 10 64bit computer but ran fine on the windows 10 32 bit laptop--????

Re: Code plug read/write error

Posted: Sun Mar 15, 2020 12:33 am
by VK3KYY
jrd210 wrote:
Sat Mar 14, 2020 10:39 pm
Follow up--it did not run on the windows 10 64bit computer but ran fine on the windows 10 32 bit laptop--????
Lots of people are running it on W10 x64. The problem does not seem to be related to W10, either 32 or 64 bit.

Some people find they have to use a different USB port, so the problem is possibly in the driver that does not support some newer USB hardware.

I didn't write the driver. Its from a project called LibWDI

https://github.com/pbatard/libwdi

The installer I'm using was compiled ages ago by someone else, and I guess I should attempt to rebuild it, but its not top of my very long To Do list as it works for 99% of people

Re: Code plug read/write error

Posted: Sun Mar 15, 2020 3:13 pm
by jrd210
Thx for all your excellent work BTW and the comment----I kind of figured it was not likely to be just that difference of 32 to 64, so back to strange port choices!!

Re: Code plug read/write error

Posted: Sat Sep 26, 2020 11:06 am
by VK3KYY