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PR860 Programming problems

Posted: Fri Aug 13, 2010 9:38 am
by kyparamedic
I bought the CPS for the PR860 from Motorola. It's Revision R01.03. I purchased an aftermarket USB cable from Wiscomm.com. I'm having trouble reading from the radios. I keep getting error #512. It wasn't working, then it was, now it's not again. There's not a special programming mode for this radio is there? Does this sound like an issue with the cable? I have the proper COM port set up in the software.

Thanks!

Re: PR860 Programming problems

Posted: Sun Aug 15, 2010 9:34 pm
by HLA
get rid of the usb cable and get a real rib and cable, they can say it works all they want but you see now that usb is very un-reliable. motorola never made a usb cable for those radios and the cps don't have any usb support, you are having to use a 3rd party driver and taking the chance of bricking your radio if that usb port decides to stop working correctly while you are writing to the radio