CHIRP

Include the debug.log file. The "How to report issues":http://chirp.danplanet.com/projects/chirp/wiki/How_to_report_issues page shows you how to find it.

To make a "clean" debug.log file, start CHIRP, cause the error, close CHIRP.

Jim

Kat,

Unfortunately the debug.log didn't capture the "identification string" that was returned. Please attach your CHIRP Radio Images (*.img) file.

Jim

To clarify: I upload the Default image to radio. It appears to be successful. When I turn it on, it is in Chinese. So I download the file to see what the image file looks like, and that is the error image file.

It appears that the memory layout may have changed dramatically. Do you have a radio that you have not uploaded to yet?

Jim

Do you have a factory software that works with these latest radios?

Jim

So this was from one of the new radios that hasn't been uploaded to yet, right?

That is correct. That is the downloaded file off the radio from the box. No alterations have been made.

It looks like Baofeng may have reduced the size of the BF-888s' memory. Reading beyond the new, smaller size causes the memory to partially wrap around. Writing beyond the new, smaller size seems to overwrite the new memory map putting bogus values in the settings (which causes the voice prompts to be Chinese).

I think I might know where the new memory areas are, but I need you to perform some tests to confirm what I am thinking. Here is what I need you to do:

Don't use any of your new radios that are still "factory". Use one that speaks Chinese.

1. Download from your radio to get me a baseline image and save it to an "image".
2. Change the Voice Prompt to English (with the power OFF, set radio to channel 15 and power on with the PTT and MONI buttons pressed)
3. Download from your radio to get me an image with the Voice Prompt set to English.

Attach both saved "images" to this issue so I can review them.

Thanks,
Jim

I usually see the language setting in the "Settings" tab under the "Memories" tab. That "Settings" tab is blank with the Chinese voice. I have to go to View>Change Language>(drop down menu set to "Auto") and select "English" to change the language settings.

Kat Russ wrote:

I usually see the language setting in the "Settings" tab under the "Memories" tab. That "Settings" tab is blank with the Chinese voice. I have to go to View>Change Language>(drop down menu set to "Auto") and select "English" to change the language settings.

Kat,

Do not pay any attention to the Settings tab. The settings tab for this new crop of radios is meaningless. The settings don't appear to be in the same memory location so CHIRP does not read from or write to the proper location in memory. With your help, I am trying to determine where the settings might have been relocated to.

The "View>Change Language> ..." is for the CHIRP user interface, not the radio. I need you to change the language from Chinese to English using the radio's interface for doing so. Then I might be able to determine the new location by comparing before and after CHIRP images.

Jim

Jim,

I now understand that. However, when I followed your instructions the voice changed from Chinese to English and that is the image that I previously provided.

Unfortunately it wasn't clear which byte contained the change (there was too many changes). Do it again but this time change it to English, grab an image, then change it back to Chinese and grab another image. Hopefully that will narrow the change down to a dingle byte.

Jim

Hi Kat,

Both of these files are identical. Did you actually hear the voice prompt change?

Jim

Hi both,

I am also having this issue. Is there anything I can do to assist with debugging?

I am also having the same problem. Is there any update to this?

Ch 15, Press / Hold both PTT and MONI, and Power ON
Change Language (CHI / ENG)

Hi, I just ran across this issue now.

I had previously programmed the older BF-888 without issue, but a recently purchased machine presented exactly the same issues as reported above.

To give a little more info FWIW - after programming with chirp the 'original' Baofeng software could not change the language (nor any of the other features). Regretably I'm not sure if it could before using chirp, but I've no reason to assume that it couldn't.

It's a shame that the full menu options aren't available through chirp's interface, and although it's possible to reset the language via the 'manual' method described by Dieter Preiser I expect it would be desirable to sort this out if possible?

To this end, while these later radios were for someone else, meaning I don't have ready access to them (and mine are the earlier machines), I'd be happy to purchase a couple more and do whatever's needed to assist with resolving the issue, if that helped...

Hi, I have the same issue.
What I have to add is that next to the language issue, the channels don't work correct either. I can talk from the new one to the old one, but not the other way around. Also not from a new one to another new one.
I really hope you can find a solution, the new ones are useless this way.
Thank you in advance.

Erwin van den Broek wrote:

Hi, I have the same issue.
What I have to add is that next to the language issue, the channels don't work correct either. I can talk from the new one to the old one, but not the other way around. Also not from a new one to another new one.
I really hope you can find a solution, the new ones are useless this way.
Thank you in advance.

Oh and if you need someone to test a solution, I am available. I have two units with the problem, 4 new ones that I didn't program yet and a few that are older so they work fine.

Btw, I get "Radio returned unknown identification string" when trying to write to the radio after it was bricked.

I wonder if the Radioddity GA-2S is also affected? There are certain settings that CHIRP can't program correctly for the GA-2S such as language, voice on/off, vox, scan on/off.

The GA-2S uses the same *.py driver file to upload/download the image.