[chirp_users] Chirp (Not Responding) before uploading or downloading radio.

[Dennis Wage]

What is there exactly to “loathe” about updating software. It takes 30
seconds.  Jeeeeze.

On Thu, May 2, 2019 at 3:41 AM Dave B via chirp_users <
chirp_users at intrepid.danplanet.com> wrote:

> On 01/05/2019 20:00, chirp_users-request at intrepid.danplanet.com wrote:
>
> Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2019 22:37:25 -0500
> From: Joshua Richardson <oilfieldradios at consultant.com> <oilfieldradios at consultant.com>
> Subject: [chirp_users] Chirp (Not Responding) before uploading or
> 	downloading radio.
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> About four days ago, my Chirp began acting strange.  It opened normally, and a profile opened normally.  But then, when I used the Alt+U command (and later using the menu options in the menu bar), Chirp went to (Not Responding) for about twenty seconds, after which the program resumed normal function.  The only time I experience this issue is when I am asking Chirp to Upload or Download a radio.
>
> I was using an older version of Chirp from December, as I loathe updating software.  I used the App menu in the Setting App to uninstall Chirp, and installed the latest version to no avail.  I then manually deleted the individual program files from its location in File Explorer and reinstalled.  I performed these two actions twice with no improvement.
> Then I used the Disk Cleanup tool in Windows, deleted temporary files, ran a Defrag, used the Microsoft Malicious Software Removal Tool, ran DISM */Online /Cleanup-Image /CheckHealth, DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /ScanHealth, DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth, sfc/* scanner, and chkdsk C: /f.
> These actions all improved Windows performance as a whole, but I am still experiencing Chirp?s (Not Responding) issue.  This is only a minor inconvenience, but after eight months of using Chirp with zero issues, it concerns me that it just decided to start having a brain fart one day.
> What further diagnosis steps can I take to prevent a complete system reset?  I?d like to not go through the process of a complete system restoration more than once a year.
>
> Any help is appreciated,
>
> Josh
>
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>
> Hi Josh.
>
> Make sure Win 10 has not done something (updates?) to block the use of any
> I/O adapters you use to connect to the radio.
>
> Also, that any such adapters "show up" to the system as the same COM port
> you expect.
>
> Check using Device Manager.
>
> If not, either tell Chirp the new assigned port, or use Windows own tools
> within Device Manager, to nail it's feet to the ground, so that the next
> time you plug it in, to the same USB hole, it'll show up the same (so long
> as nothing else got there first!)
>
> For example, (but not the only method):-
>
>
> http://www.w1hkj.com/doku/doku.php?id=howto:taming_the_wild_comport_in_windows
>
> Just identifying the current COM port the radio is attached to, and using
> "That" new info, to tell Chirp what to use, should get you going, if it
> used to work OK with that adapter+radio in the past.
>
> If not, then there are other issues, possibly device driver related.
>
> 73.
>
> Dave G0WBX.
>
> PS:    Just so it is said, Linux etc can have the same/similar issues, if
> anyone has experienced this sort of thing.  Again one needs to identify
> what /dev/ttyUSBx device was assigned to the interface.  But, in the case
> of FTDI based interfaces, you can reliably "Fix" the issue using "udev
> rules".  But that is beyond the scope of this list.  PM me if needed.  I'm
> not aware of any similar native facility in Windows.
>
> ><
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