HELP!DM-5R looks broken

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bh4rqx
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HELP!DM-5R looks broken

Post by bh4rqx » Sun Jun 11, 2023 11:58 am

:( Oh no!
My DM-5R can't enter the firmware upgrade mode after flashing the GD77 firmware. I pressed the SK1 and SK2 keys, then started up, the green light flashes 4 times, and then it enters normal use mode. Can anyone help me?

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Re: HELP!DM-5R looks broken

Post by VK3KYY » Sun Jun 11, 2023 9:19 pm

bh4rqx wrote:
Sun Jun 11, 2023 11:58 am
:( Oh no!
My DM-5R can't enter the firmware upgrade mode after flashing the GD77 firmware. I pressed the SK1 and SK2 keys, then started up, the green light flashes 4 times, and then it enters normal use mode. Can anyone help me?
Give more details

Is this the first time you tried to do a firmware update on this radio?

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Re: HELP!DM-5R looks broken

Post by F1RMB » Sun Jun 11, 2023 11:23 pm

Hi,

Smells like corruption/erasing of the MCU "protection" bytes.

Cheers.
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Daniel

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Re: HELP!DM-5R looks broken

Post by bh4rqx » Tue Jun 13, 2023 10:08 am

VK3KYY wrote:
Sun Jun 11, 2023 9:19 pm
bh4rqx wrote:
Sun Jun 11, 2023 11:58 am
:( Oh no!
My DM-5R can't enter the firmware upgrade mode after flashing the GD77 firmware. I pressed the SK1 and SK2 keys, then started up, the green light flashes 4 times, and then it enters normal use mode. Can anyone help me?
Give more details

Is this the first time you tried to do a firmware update on this radio?
This is the first time I've flashed firmware on this radio. I suspect that it may be due to flashing the wrong firmware version that has caused the current problem.
Now this radio can write frequencies normally, but it cannot enter firmware flashing mode.
Is it possible to fix?
Thank you for your reply!
Last edited by bh4rqx on Tue Jun 13, 2023 10:16 am, edited 1 time in total.

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Re: HELP!DM-5R looks broken

Post by bh4rqx » Tue Jun 13, 2023 10:11 am

F1RMB wrote:
Sun Jun 11, 2023 11:23 pm
Hi,

Smells like corruption/erasing of the MCU "protection" bytes.

Cheers.
---
Daniel
Thanks a lot!
Is it possible to restore it to its initial mode?

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