HELP!!! M1225 Software with RIBless USB Cable

[lfguard10]

I have a UHF & VHF M1225 with Software. I have a USB RIBless cable. When I attempt to read the radio an error occurs and says to check the RIB to ensure a good connection and make sure the radio is turned on. I am running XP.

[HLA]

see if you can borrow a real rib & cable to try first to make shure your software and computer are working correctly. and i'm not positive on the compatibility of the 1225 stuff on a ntfs system, maybe somebody else has tried it but you may have to go back to a 98 or ME os.

[Batwings21]

The newest version of 1225 series rss, version 4 contains install files for win95 and xp both, only the xp version works with xp, older versions do not, but I don't remember the exact error. Also, like HLA said, you may want to try a real rib, as the usb knock offs will not always work.

[lfguard10]

I forgot to mention.....when I go to Computer Configuration and click CommTest, my radio will turn off and reset, and turn back on. So the cable itself has good connections. Also, I did install the XP version.

[Batwings21]

Okay. with that info, I would suspect the ribless cable. I have had problems with 1225's and the Motorola ribless cable, so it would not surprise me if that one would not work. I have had very little luck with any usb to serial adapter and programming, and that is what your able is made out of.

[motorola_otaku]

M1225s are oddly picky about what hardware you use to program them. I had a Polaris PA-II RIB that would program anything and everything all the way from STXes to XTS3000s, but all of a sudden one day it quit talking to M1225s. It would still read/write to every other radio I had handy to try on it, but it wouldn't touch a 1225.

+1 for get a genuine RLN4008B Motorola RIB.

[junior23]

I have been unable to program the M1225 with conventional usb programming cables as well. Most Cables contain the Prolific PL-2303 chipset and all of the configurations and adaptations i have tried have failed. I have been able to make a working usb cable out of an FTDI 5V TTL cable available from http://WWW.FTDICHIP.COM for about $20. The pinouts are the same as a generic serial cable and when done you have a basic programming rib.