Bug #8197
closedH-777 (as BF-888) failed to send to radio during upload (partial - stops at various locations) - downloads fine
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I recently purchased 6x Retevis H-777s in a kit from Amazon to expand a set we are already using at our church.
1) Upgraded my CHIRP to the 20200807 daily.
1a) Using a Baofeng Tech FTDI cable - same cable I've used for years to program these types of radios with CHIRP.
2) Used BF-888 profile in CHIRP (as previously, and still what is instructed for the H-777).
3) Downloaded CFG from radio -> no problems (I always do this to confirm connectivity to the radio via the cable).
4) Loaded the same CFG file I've been using for years (literally 2016) into CHIRP - reviewed settings (no changes needed)
5) When I tried to Upload to Radio, it stopped about halfway through with an "error failed to send block xxxx" message.
6) I could download from that same radio, and it was obvious that it had written part of the config - Channels 1-10 or so were the new config, but the rest were still the default config.
7) I repeated steps 2-6 on a second radio with similar results (the xxxx location where the upload stopped varied)
I found Bug #7607 while searching for a solution. During the discussion of that bug, they recommended downgrading CHIRP to a 2019 version. Unfortunately, that version wasn't on the CHIRP website, so I downgraded to a VERY old version that I had used previously "chirp-daily-20160717-installer.exe". This worked with no problems - I was able to upload the config to all 6 radios.
I've attached the CFG for reference, but I don't think there is anything strange with it.
Maybe related to Bug #7067 (sounds like similar symptoms, and fix was similar)
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