Anyone know how I can get this damn AS3 to program with something older than what it was last programmed with? The guy who sold my friend the radio is being very uncooperative and It's been sitting here, useless, for almost a week and a half. He told me it was programmed with CPS 2.0, but I have RSS 9.05 and that WONT read it. I've also got CPS 1.04 and that WONT read it either. I think it was programmed with CPS 3.0. CPS 3.0 is nowhere to be found. I give up. Is there a way to force this radio backward to read from OLDER RSS/CPS?
Thanks, Scott.
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What exactly do you mean by 'it won't read it'? Does it do the full read, then give the 'codeplug too new' error? Or does it not read it at all?
The reason I ask is because CPS 3.0 IS COMPATIBLE with RSS 9.05. The enclosed notice which came with CPS 3.0 states that it is, but future versions would not be. I tested it after your last post, and have found it to be true. I can read/write with RSS 9.05 after using CPS 3.0, no problems.
So, unless there's a newer version CPS out that I'm not aware of (which can happen, sometimes we don't receive our updates for several weeks), then it should work.
Regardless, the way to revert your radio back to an earlier version is to dump in an existing codeplug for the radio which was saved with an earlier version RSS. OR, clone in a codeplug which has the exact same model number & flashcode. LAB shouldn't be required.
Todd
The reason I ask is because CPS 3.0 IS COMPATIBLE with RSS 9.05. The enclosed notice which came with CPS 3.0 states that it is, but future versions would not be. I tested it after your last post, and have found it to be true. I can read/write with RSS 9.05 after using CPS 3.0, no problems.
So, unless there's a newer version CPS out that I'm not aware of (which can happen, sometimes we don't receive our updates for several weeks), then it should work.
Regardless, the way to revert your radio back to an earlier version is to dump in an existing codeplug for the radio which was saved with an earlier version RSS. OR, clone in a codeplug which has the exact same model number & flashcode. LAB shouldn't be required.
Todd
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My version of CPS 3.0 shows this in the readme file:
===================================================================
ASTRO SPECTRA CUSTOMER PROGRAMMING SOFTWARE R03.00.00
===================================================================
Please be aware that DOS RSS is no longer supported. Once the radio is
programmed by this version of the CPS, DOS RSS will no longer read the radio.
BTW I think there is a 3.01. Will have to check and see, since I don't install the minor fixes, only the major revisions.
Bugs
===================================================================
ASTRO SPECTRA CUSTOMER PROGRAMMING SOFTWARE R03.00.00
===================================================================
Please be aware that DOS RSS is no longer supported. Once the radio is
programmed by this version of the CPS, DOS RSS will no longer read the radio.
BTW I think there is a 3.01. Will have to check and see, since I don't install the minor fixes, only the major revisions.
Bugs
There are ways to switch the version on a codeplug so that it will read with older software.
Keep in mind that the information has to be put back into the radio in the same structure it was read out. When the radio looks in the memory for certain blocks of data, it has to find it in the same place. The only thing that restricts what version you use is the flags for the codeplug version.
There are probably some other subtle differences that are important to know, but if you can change the codeplug version, your golden.
So with CPS/RSS - you have different ways of viewing, editing, reading, and writing to the radio - but it is all in the same end format for the radio to read and understand it.
-Alex
Addition: When new software comes out there are new features - the memory structure allows for this, and the older software will ignore blocks it doesn't know how to handle.
Keep in mind that the information has to be put back into the radio in the same structure it was read out. When the radio looks in the memory for certain blocks of data, it has to find it in the same place. The only thing that restricts what version you use is the flags for the codeplug version.
There are probably some other subtle differences that are important to know, but if you can change the codeplug version, your golden.
So with CPS/RSS - you have different ways of viewing, editing, reading, and writing to the radio - but it is all in the same end format for the radio to read and understand it.
-Alex
Addition: When new software comes out there are new features - the memory structure allows for this, and the older software will ignore blocks it doesn't know how to handle.