I just received a firmware refresh for our XTL & XTS radios. Before I proceed to apply this to our radios, when I update the radio which includes new UCM firmware will it retain the existing encryption keys or will the keys need to be reloaded?
Thanks in advance for you help
XTL / XTS Firmware upgrade question
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N4DES
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Re: XTL / XTS Firmware upgrade question
You will need to reload them.
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spectragod
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Re: XTL / XTS Firmware upgrade question
You will need to reload keys, and.......if your xtl's/xts's are fw 8.xx.xx or less, they will need bumped to 8.xx.xx first, before flashing to 14.xx.xx. Just FYI.
Kilgore: Smell that? You smell that?
Lance: What?
Kilgore: Napalm, son. Nothing in the world smells like that.
Kilgore: I love the smell of napalm in the morning. You know, one time we had a hill bombed, for 12 hours. When it was all over, I walked up. We didn't find one of 'em, not one stinkin' dink body. The smell, you know that gasoline smell, the whole hill. Smelled like... victory. Someday this war's gonna end...
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Lance: What?
Kilgore: Napalm, son. Nothing in the world smells like that.
Kilgore: I love the smell of napalm in the morning. You know, one time we had a hill bombed, for 12 hours. When it was all over, I walked up. We didn't find one of 'em, not one stinkin' dink body. The smell, you know that gasoline smell, the whole hill. Smelled like... victory. Someday this war's gonna end...
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Re: XTL / XTS Firmware upgrade question
Use a serial cable. Have upgraded several radios with FW 4-6 with serial no problem but failed repeatedly with USB
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MSS-Dave
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Re: XTL / XTS Firmware upgrade question
I had the same problem with XTL2500 going from 12.xx to 14.whatever it is now with the USB cable. Ended up with the serial cable on there and it took fine then....
Dave
Dave
escomm wrote:Use a serial cable. Have upgraded several radios with FW 4-6 with serial no problem but failed repeatedly with USB
Re: XTL / XTS Firmware upgrade question
I did about 500 XTS5000s going from the problem 8 version to a 9 version using the USB cable with no failures. Never used a serial cable on a portable but on a mobile it takes over 20 min. The XTS USB is less than 3 min.
Re: XTL / XTS Firmware upgrade question
Maybe it's my horrible luck, but whenever I flash an XTL, through the O5 head, I takes multiple attempts. I stood in the hot sun last Thursday afternoon agonizing over two radios. Doing the same on a remote mount through the TIB is always a one shot success. I always use Serial but have tries USB and got similar results. Could it be my portable computer or is this normal?
Marshall
Marshall