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Bricked my Flex-6300 after Upgrading to 4.01

DL2KBQ
DL2KBQ Member ✭✭
in SmartSDR for Windows

Hello Community, today I upgraded my FLEX-6300 from SmartSDR v.2.12.1 to V 4.01.

I should better havent done this!

At the beginning upgrade seems to work, but very fast I mentioned that band changes via CAT causes a hard crash of the radio, only 8 second power button pressing gives a new start. After this the same issue. Using the band change from slice menu does not work even. It closes the slice but does not change the band or frequency. So I decided to downgrad this new software to Smart SDR v.2.12.1 that worked well for many months. The downgrade went to the end of the yellow indicator bar, but the radio came not available. The IP address gave a ping answer. After this try I downgraded to Smart SDRv2.7.6. The downgrade came to an end and the radio seems to be available. After starting SmartSDR, the Slices looked up for 1 second, than the radio crashed again. So I decidedes to go again to V2.12.1. The upgrade does not work, the radio seems to stuck in Boot Mode with blinking power button. No IP answer on his old address, no lookup for further upgrade trys. The radio is bricked now! Thanks very much!

Wat can I do to bring it alive again? All suggestions are welcome. Best 73 de very unlucky DL2KBQ

Comments

  • KD0RC
    KD0RC Member, Super Elmer Moderator

    After downgrading, you need to do a factory reset.

  • DL2KBQ
    DL2KBQ Member ✭✭

    Hello Len, thanks very much for this hint, this helped me out this issue!

    Best 73 DL2KBQ

    The next issue is there: I have a Problem with Hardware ALC Window, I will make a extra Post.

  • Asher - K0AU
    Asher - K0AU Member ✭✭✭

    I am also seeing a crash on my 6300 on the 4.01 software. Crash happens when I select 80M or just tune SCU into the 3.5MHz to 4MHz range. Strange. Other bands seems fine.

    I also found my PGXL was not putting out full power with SSDR 4.01 until I upgraded the PGXL to the latest software. No idea if it was real or just a side effect of resetting everything.

  • KD0RC
    KD0RC Member, Super Elmer Moderator

    Hi Asher, you might want to try a factory reset. If that doesn't help, submit a help desk ticket.

  • N1AI
    N1AI Member ✭✭

    (1a) upgrade seems to work, but very fast I mentioned that band changes via CAT causes a hard crash of the radio

    (1b) I am also seeing a crash on my 6300 on the 4.01 software. Crash happens when I select 80M or just tune SCU into the 3.5MHz to 4MHz range.

    (2)     you might want to try a factory reset

    For what it's worth, I saw the same sequence of events. I upgraded to v4.0.1 and saw band changes did not work well at all, then a random sequence of band changes caused the radio to crash. Since I'd never seen the radio crash I was quite surprised. The crash is what made me decide to do the cold boot to factory reset to cold boot sequence and now all is well.


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