[chirp_users] Recovery

Jim Unroe
Wed Aug 21 12:13:08 PDT 2019


On Wed, Aug 21, 2019 at 2:55 PM Dennis Wage <dwage at dwage.com> wrote:
>
> In other words a total reset will work to restore
>
> On Wed, Aug 21, 2019 at 11:19 Jim Unroe <rock.unroe at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > Greetings,

Hi Dennis,

No. RESET will not perform a "restore". The RESET menu only resets the
128 memories, the 2 VFO and the 40 menus to the FIRMWARE defaults. The
FIRMWARE defaults are not the same as what they were at when the radio
came from the factory. For example from the factory menu 14 (VOICE) is
set to ENG (English). After a RESET, menu 14 is set to CHI (Chinese).
Many other menu settings are different after a RESET from what they
were from the factory. And a RESET does nothing to "reset" any other
areas of memory beyond what I mentioned above (the areas of memory
that get messed up when overwritten by a foreign image). The only way
you can "total reset" a Baofeng like radio back to its original
"factory" settings is to upload a backup CHIRP image that was saved
from the radio immediately after installation of the battery and
before pressing any buttons. It doesn't sound like this was done in
your case, though. Sorry.

Jim KC9HI



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