<html><head></head><body><div class="yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><div><div>Well ya'll, I finally got it working. Besides CHIRP, I had a couple of old BF-888s Chinese programs that would normally change it to English, but these would not, and I still don't know why. These radios definitely have a bug in the software!<br><br>I assume ya'll have enough original factory images from the Baofeng BF-888s so I don't have to supply any and you can reference them.<br><br>I took care to test for English or Chinese as I ran these tests.<br><br>Test 1 - I entered all FRS frequencies and removed the Chinese Frequencies. I noticed as I installed the FRS frequencies, all of the characters in the other colums went away and I never lost the English from the radio. (the characters in the original image columns).<br><br>Test 2 - Removed all Tone Modes.<br><br>Test 3 - Changed the mode from NM to NFM<br><br>Test 4 - Removed all skipped channels.<br><br>So now I have 2 new working BF-888s that Amazon dropped off at lunch. I can't think of anything better to do on this cold wet rainy day... it took me 3 hours to get it to work. I'll leave the technical aspect why they didn't work to the pros & programmers.</div><div><br></div><div>I could have given you an already working image but I put a lot of work into this. Here's the working image. I know there's more info to add into the lists & columns, so someone may encounter the Chinese again.</div><div><br></div><div>I didn't fix it, I got the radios so I could program the FRS channels in them, and it started working.<br></div></div></div></body></html>