CHIRP

I just redid the test and this time it works. I think I might have run into a cable issue (I have been using a new cable from eBay lately, an "octopus" style cable w/ CH340 chip, and sometimes it has some poor connection issue, and I mistook that as not reading the radio in several instances. I used to use my old cable w/ 5 adapter cables w/ Prolific chip, and that used to work fine, but I destroyed that adapter for Kenwood style connector a while ago due to an urgency to make something out of it, sorry for the long story.

So it is working as is now w/ 5RX3. However, I swear that I did try all possible models that has 220 and related to Baofeng at the time.

As to the factory image, I forgot what I did, but it might not be real factory, as I might have written some frequencies to it and I resorted to do a factory reset and read it (only changing the language from Chinese to English in the voice prompt), and thought that was factory. Indeed it probably isn't real factory in the truest sense as I forgot to save a copy (I did using the seller's supplied Baofeng programming software, which unfortunately doesn't program 220 either, on that one, I do have a "factory image", but under their format, so I don't think it'll help to upload.).

Regardless, I am glad that it works now, and thanks again for your help.

I still am not 100% sure why I couldn't get that to work w/ 5RX3 so many times, but I blame it on the cable and bad luck, as I couldn't understand what else it could be. Please believe that I did the tests several times each time I ran them.