July 26, 2025 • 19 mins
Learn how to update the firmware on your Yaesu FTX-1 ham radio with this step-by-step guide! Boost performance, unlock new features, and ensure your radio is up-to-date with the latest software. Perfect for ham radio enthusiasts looking to optimize their Yaesu FTX-1 experience. Watch now for expert tips and easy instructions! #YaesuFTX1 #HamRadio
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Today, we're gonna update the firmware on this Yazoo FTX one. Now.
You can find these instructions on the Yazoo website. They're
fairly simple to do. I wanted to walk through them
and do them on video just because I've been doing
a lot of videos about this radio. I'm actually recording
about three videos today about this radio. Jesu's already got
a firmware version update ever since this Uh. This radio
(00:23):
was released around the time of Daton, which was three
weeks ago at the time of this recording, and this
firmware update has been out for about a week, so
it was pretty quick, and I expect more firmware updates.
We'll talk about that a little bit later. But these
steps should work for any version of firmware, regardless of
where you're starting and where you're upgrading too. So let's
take a look right now, all right, this is directly
(00:47):
from the Yazoo website. This is this is the website
right here. Go to yazu dot com, scroll down to
products VHF A I'm sorry, HF Radios and FTX one
series is right there in at the at the top,
and then you click on up. Once you get on
the ftx one series page which includes the field and
Optima versions you can see right there at the top.
(01:10):
You get there and you click on updates here, and
these are the files that you want right here. So
the bottom link is the actual firmware ftx one USA firmware.
This is this top link here in English's firmer update information.
This is basically the stuff that they've fixed or this
(01:31):
is extra. No, that's not even a change log. Really,
it's tell you a little bit about what the file.
This file contains, and I've already downloaded the file. And
then these are the instructions. So all of this is
located right here. I'm not sure what the purpose of
this is. Actually, this is just telling you that basically,
please read the ft x one series firm or upgrade Manual,
which is this right here, and it says implements improvements
(01:54):
as of May of twenty twenty five, that was last month,
improved operation problems. That's not very much. That's not a
very good change log. Okay, after installing firmwork completely, the
ftx one must be reset. Referred to the ftx one
Series Operating Manual, page seventy nine, or refer to the
firmware manual, which it tells you over here, so you
have to reset it. So if you've saved any memory channels,
(02:15):
it is probably gonna wipe them out. FYI, this should
be more of a change log. It's what that should be,
is just not so whatever. Okay, that's fine. So we're
gonna start here. Okay, and again this will work for
any series. And right here, so I've read through all
this and I've done a couple of these steps already.
Right here it says format the micro SD card in
advance with the transceiver. So we're gonna do that in
(02:37):
these steps here just a minute. It doesn't tell you
how to do that. It does tell you to look
in the manual under using micro SD card in the
uh described in the Owner's Operation Manual, and I can
tell you right now that's on page sixty four. So
the first thing I did was I tried to format
I've got I've got a few micro SD cards for
some of my cameras. I've got micro SD cards for
(02:59):
my drone, and I don't have very many small micro
SD cards. So I took a sixty four gig and
tried it, and it gave me a formatting error. Okay,
so I opened the manual. I refer back here. I
opened the manual. Page sixty four says that you can
use a two gigabyte micro SD card or a four, eight, sixteen,
(03:22):
or thirty two gigabyte micro SDHC card. Okay, I think
the HC is just a faster read. I'm not sure
what the difference is. I don't really care for the
purposes of this. So I dug through my micro SD
card holder here that I keep in my camera bag.
I found an eight gig and it worked fine. So
I got an eight gig micro SD card in here
(03:45):
and it works fine. And I'm gonna show you what
to do on that right now, because the manual here
tells you to format the card, but it doesn't tell
you how to do it. But it does tell you
how to do it if you scroll down right here,
like on page whatever page this is page six, page
six to you how to format the micro SD card.
So we start here at the main menu, and we
(04:05):
long press this button here and that takes us into
the regular deep menu. Okay, And you've got three pages
in here, page one, page two, and page three over here.
Page three gives you these options down at the bottom
right here, and we want to choose extension settings there
and then it'll probably start at the top right there.
(04:27):
But then you can you can use the touchscreen or
you can use this indicator knob right here, the top
right knob, and we choose SD card and you can
see it's on format. It's going to start at the
top of the menu there. Come down to format, click
on done. I don't know why it says done, but
this is what this is how you do it. You
click on done and then it says format card okay
(04:49):
or cancel. We choose okay, and we're going to see
new format progress. It only takes a few seconds. There
we go format completed and then we just back out
of that. So that's all you got to do to
format the SD card. There's really nothing else to it.
So let's go here and start again at the top
of this page. So so we formatted the SD card
(05:11):
and it wants us to look and see what it says.
Going to the extension menu, touch forward two times to
page three, which is where we just were, and touch
soft version. That's going to be the software version that
is currently on the radio. So we're going to go
here back into that menu. Yeah, extension setting, that's correct
(05:34):
soft version, and you can see we are on display
version of zero one dash zero one. Main is zero
one dash zero zero, and you can you can see
all those here. SDR is zero one dash zero three.
District is USA. So that's the software version that we're
on right now that we're going to be updating from.
(05:55):
So it talks about downloading the firmware, and I've already
got this ZIP file. I'll grab this zip file here
in a minute. I've got this downloaded to my hard
drive on a Windows box. Apologize to some of you
who don't like Windows. Not really my problem, but uh,
you know, so we're going to extract that to I
know you guys can't see what I'm doing right now.
(06:16):
So I downloaded the zip file. I extracted it to
my desktop. Here it says unzipped the downloaded file using
a PC or Windows OS. Right click on the downloaded
zip extract all the firmware file. Extension extension is sfl
Sierra Foxtrot LIMA in the folder. So I've got the
folder and it's currently titled FTX one USA Firmware Update
(06:41):
twenty twenty five five, so it's just named twenty twenty
five O five. And then inside of the folder we
see these files right here, there's four files inside of
the folder. This manual that I've been reading to you
from the website is also included in here. You can
open up that manual and it's the same manual that
is listed that you download from the website. And then
(07:03):
you've got these SFL files here, and you can see
the bottom one says main, this one says display, and
this one says dispboot display boot. I assume that means so.
And they're all about three megabytes. Look at two and
a half to three megabytes something like that. Not very
large at all. So we're gonna go back over here,
and it says copy the Furware two and micro SD card.
(07:25):
It should be to a micro SD card. I don't know.
I'm a sticker for things like that. Copy the file
directly under the ftx one folder. So somehow I'm gonna
have to get this micro SD card. I hope that
now that I've formatted the micro SD card in the
Yazu radio, I hope that that Windows will read it.
That's gonna be the trick. I haven't tried this yet,
(07:47):
so let's try that. I'm put this in my fancy
little USB connector there. We're gonna see if that comes out.
It does, Okay, that comes up right there, So let
me bring that window up so you guys can see
it that. It's see ftx one folder from the formatted
SD card that I just took out of the radio,
and you can see right here it's got capture, memalist,
(08:08):
menu and playlist. And according to these instructions right here,
I need to put the firmware in this location under
the ftx one folder. So QSO log is not something
I have because I haven't logged any QSOs yet. So
we're going to bring this over here, and I gotta
find there it is, okay, so I gotta find that,
(08:28):
and I got to find these three files. Okay, So
those are the three firmware files there, copy to this location.
That's where we put them. Okay, how to update the firmware.
Turn the transceiver off. Let me take this out here,
and I got to put the micro est card back in.
By the way, here's something that's useful. If you haven't
(08:50):
seen this yet, you put you insert the micro SD
card this direction, not this direction. I mean, you'll figure
it out, because as long as you don't force it,
you won't be able to put it in this way.
So you put it in with the fate what I
would call the face of the card facing down or
facing towards the back of the radio. So I'm gonna
go ahead and turn the transceiver off because that's the
(09:11):
first step after putting the card back in anyway. And
if I were to put this card in now, it
would pop up a menu that says proceed to update
or something like that. But we're not going to do
that right now. So here's what we're gonna do. Turn
the transceiver off when updating, remove the battery, which I've
already done that, and connect it to an external power source.
(09:32):
Now I've got another video. I'm going to talk about
this battery and what I think about the battery, and
some drawbacks about the battery. The battery is USB C chargeable,
but it requires a fifteen volt power source with I
think two hundred and fifty wants or FO hundred fifty wants,
I can't remember what it is. It requires more of
a power source than what your standard USBC connector is
(09:54):
going to give you I'm going to talk about that
another video. But one thing I have learned is that
the USB the gigaparts, the latest Gigabarts battery box with
the upgraded USBC charger does charge the battery on this radio. Okay,
you can save five percent on that box with the
coupon code of KC five HWB, and they put them
(10:16):
on sale periodically. I suspect they'll have them on sale
next month or in a couple months for Huntsville Hamfest,
but we'll see. Anyway, I've got this plugged in via
this cable right now. Here's the battery batteries off the radio.
I've got this plugged in via this cable, and it's
actually running down to the same Gigabarts battery box plugged
into power poles direct twelve direct to twelve volts. Okay,
(10:36):
so that's what I've got plugged in right now. So
it says to take the battery out and plug in
directly to twelve volts. That's the first step. Turn the
transceiver off. I did that. Connect to a power source,
insert the Mike Gorest card. Okay, good. Important, do not
skip this section if the current main firmware is zero
one zero zero, proceed to step four. That's what it was, right, yes, yeah,
(11:01):
so if the current so once you update from this,
you probably haven't wanted to do this again. If the
current version is different from zero one zero zero, proceed
to step eleven. I had to go look again because
there were several numbers in there. Main is zero one
zero zero, as you saw earlier in this video. I
should have rebound my own video, but I didn't. Okay,
so we're gonna start at step four. Okay, So if
(11:21):
you once you update the main past zero one zero zero,
which is I think is what we're about to do,
then you won't have to do these steps four, five, six, seven, eight, nine,
and ten. You'll proceed directly to step eleven. Okay. If
the current main firm reversion is different than V zero
one dot zero zero, start from step eleven. Okay, so
we're gonna do this whole thing. So while pressing the
(11:43):
Q and B, the VM, and the MV buttons simultaneously,
all three buttons simultaneously turn on the transceiver. So that
is I think that's all three of these at the top,
Q and B, that's this one MV, so this one here,
this one here, and this one here, so one, two,
(12:05):
and three, and we're gonna power this on. Okay, it
says on the screen right there, I know that's small.
In the window, it says firmware update at the very
top right there, and it says insert latest version firmware
sd card. Touch the screen to continue, but the manual says,
do not touch the screen, proceed to next step. Okay, okay,
(12:29):
turn the function knob clockwise five clicks or more. The
Yazu bootloader screen appears. Okay, turn the function knob five
clicks or more. There we go. Okay, there we go.
Make sure that the display mark that the display shows
(12:50):
the check mark, then touch update. Do not mark anything
other than display. So it wants us to do the
display first. And that's exactly what came up. What came
up was display is checked here, Maine is not checked.
It's got a checkbox there. Both of them say ready,
and then DSP and SDR say no such file. So
(13:12):
there's no update for those today. So there's your there's
your update display, Maine. And it wants us to do
only the display update at first. Okay, make sure the display,
then touch update, touch update right here, Do not turn
off power. You can see the indicator going right there.
It says, skipped on Maine. So we're just updating to
(13:35):
display right now, which is exactly what it wants us
to do. Again, I think this is an initial update
because this is factory firmware. Okay, so the display turned off.
It says, the update prey indicator is displayed when the
firm or transfer begins. Please wait until the progress is completed.
Do not remove the SD card until or turn off
the transceiver while updating. If the update is interrupted, transceiver
(13:58):
will not operate properly. When and the update is complete.
The power is automatically turned off, it says. Right here,
unplug the DC power chord, then reconnect the powers automatically
turned on. Proceed to step twelve. Okay. So that's one
thing about this radio that I find a little bit
I don't know if annoying is the right word, but strange. Okay.
(14:19):
So we're turned off right now. There's no lights, no anything.
Every time you apply power to the radio, it comes automatically,
and that's what it's selling me to do. It says,
to remove this, put the power back in right there.
It didn't come back on. Okay, my power did not
(14:40):
come back on. It said, unplug the DC power cord,
reconnect and the power is automatically turned on. Proceed to
step twelve. That's what it says right here. This did
not happen. I had to press my power button for
it to come on. Okay, So okay, well it's on now.
Proceed to step twelve, press the funk press and hold
(15:03):
the function knob. Go back into the main media. In
other words, okay, touch the extension setting forward two screens.
That's where we're already at for two screens. If you're
not at the extension setting, okay, touch SD card and
then touch done on the firmware updates. So it wants
you to go in here, touch SD card and touch
(15:24):
done on the firmware update, and then it's checking. Right there,
a list of firmware stored on the micro SD card
is displayed, it says right here in this screenshot, check
mark indicates firmware to be updated. Ready indicates updateable files,
No such file, there's no target, and broken file indicates
(15:44):
there's some kind of corrupted version. So we have got clearly,
we've got a display update and a main update. So
the display is VO one dash show two and the
main is VO one das Show four. That's the firmware
that we're about to apply to this radio, and it
says this one this time. It says it's okay to
(16:06):
do both at the same time, because it says to
go ahead and touch the main and put the checkbox
in that one. So that's what we're gonna do. There,
there we go. Now both of those are ready, and
it says touch update to update the confirmation screen to cancel,
click cancel, touch okay. After if we click update, it'll
(16:28):
say update and click okay. So we're plugged into power
and it says something about do not turn off power,
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Meszi and plenty for supporting the channel. All right, that
one is still go. Okay, so the display finished. You
can see it's got a green check mark here. Now
that one says finished. The main is going taken a
little bit longer than the first one. Still, yeah, it's moving. Okay.
That took about two minutes, maybe two and a half
something like that. And then the radio rebooted and it
(17:33):
comes back to this screen. Now we're gonna go back
over here. When the update is complete, the power is
automatically turned off and then on. That's what it did.
Reset the transceiver see below. Okay, while pressing back and
find fast turn the transceiver on. Okay, so it doesn't
tell you to turn the transceiver off, but obviously that's
(17:53):
what you have to do. So we're gonna go back
over here. We're gonna turn it off right there. We're
gonna press these two buttons at the same time, and
we're gonna turn the transceiver on and then that's what
it says should have the frequency display. We'll return to
one forty four dot zero on the subside and seven
(18:14):
dot zero on the main side. That's exactly what happened. Okay,
this completes the firmware upgrading process according to the manual.
So we're gonna go over here and look it's I'm
gonna put I've saved one memory channel in here, so
not a big deal to me. The three d uhs
waterfowl is on. I don't have an antenna hook connected
right now, obviously, Okay, so we're gonna go back in
(18:35):
here and look, go here stension and we're gonna scroll
down to software version. Now we're on display version v
OH one dash Show two, Maine is v OH one,
DAS Show four, DSP is OH one dash Show one.
There wasn't an update on that one, and SDR is
OH one dash Show three wasn't an update on those two.
So this was a firmware update for the display and
(18:55):
the main not the DSP or the SDR. That's what
we did. All successful, working as intended, and we can
change back and I can go back into the repeater
that I had this program down. So once again, this
is the first firmware update that Yezu has released since
this radio was debuted last month. I'm sure there will
be more Firmer updates. I'm looking forward to seeing how
(19:16):
well this one works and what they actually fixed. Because
there wasn't it said operating problems. I don't really know
what that means, so check the links in the description
below for everything. This should work for every version of
Firmer update from now forward. Put a comment below let
me know what other types of videos you'd like to
see about this radio. Seventy three
Today, we're gonna update the firmware on this Yazoo FTX one. Now.
You can find these instructions on the Yazoo website. They're
fairly simple to do. I wanted to walk through them
and do them on video just because I've been doing
a lot of videos about this radio. I'm actually recording
about three videos today about this radio. Jesu's already got
a firmware version update ever since this Uh. This radio
(00:23):
was released around the time of Daton, which was three
weeks ago at the time of this recording, and this
firmware update has been out for about a week, so
it was pretty quick, and I expect more firmware updates.
We'll talk about that a little bit later. But these
steps should work for any version of firmware, regardless of
where you're starting and where you're upgrading too. So let's
take a look right now, all right, this is directly
(00:47):
from the Yazoo website. This is this is the website
right here. Go to yazu dot com, scroll down to
products VHF A I'm sorry, HF Radios and FTX one
series is right there in at the at the top,
and then you click on up. Once you get on
the ftx one series page which includes the field and
Optima versions you can see right there at the top.
(01:10):
You get there and you click on updates here, and
these are the files that you want right here. So
the bottom link is the actual firmware ftx one USA firmware.
This is this top link here in English's firmer update information.
This is basically the stuff that they've fixed or this
(01:31):
is extra. No, that's not even a change log. Really,
it's tell you a little bit about what the file.
This file contains, and I've already downloaded the file. And
then these are the instructions. So all of this is
located right here. I'm not sure what the purpose of
this is. Actually, this is just telling you that basically,
please read the ft x one series firm or upgrade Manual,
which is this right here, and it says implements improvements
(01:54):
as of May of twenty twenty five, that was last month,
improved operation problems. That's not very much. That's not a
very good change log. Okay, after installing firmwork completely, the
ftx one must be reset. Referred to the ftx one
Series Operating Manual, page seventy nine, or refer to the
firmware manual, which it tells you over here, so you
have to reset it. So if you've saved any memory channels,
(02:15):
it is probably gonna wipe them out. FYI, this should
be more of a change log. It's what that should be,
is just not so whatever. Okay, that's fine. So we're
gonna start here. Okay, and again this will work for
any series. And right here, so I've read through all
this and I've done a couple of these steps already.
Right here it says format the micro SD card in
advance with the transceiver. So we're gonna do that in
(02:37):
these steps here just a minute. It doesn't tell you
how to do that. It does tell you to look
in the manual under using micro SD card in the
uh described in the Owner's Operation Manual, and I can
tell you right now that's on page sixty four. So
the first thing I did was I tried to format
I've got I've got a few micro SD cards for
some of my cameras. I've got micro SD cards for
(02:59):
my drone, and I don't have very many small micro
SD cards. So I took a sixty four gig and
tried it, and it gave me a formatting error. Okay,
so I opened the manual. I refer back here. I
opened the manual. Page sixty four says that you can
use a two gigabyte micro SD card or a four, eight, sixteen,
(03:22):
or thirty two gigabyte micro SDHC card. Okay, I think
the HC is just a faster read. I'm not sure
what the difference is. I don't really care for the
purposes of this. So I dug through my micro SD
card holder here that I keep in my camera bag.
I found an eight gig and it worked fine. So
I got an eight gig micro SD card in here
(03:45):
and it works fine. And I'm gonna show you what
to do on that right now, because the manual here
tells you to format the card, but it doesn't tell
you how to do it. But it does tell you
how to do it if you scroll down right here,
like on page whatever page this is page six, page
six to you how to format the micro SD card.
So we start here at the main menu, and we
(04:05):
long press this button here and that takes us into
the regular deep menu. Okay, And you've got three pages
in here, page one, page two, and page three over here.
Page three gives you these options down at the bottom
right here, and we want to choose extension settings there
and then it'll probably start at the top right there.
(04:27):
But then you can you can use the touchscreen or
you can use this indicator knob right here, the top
right knob, and we choose SD card and you can
see it's on format. It's going to start at the
top of the menu there. Come down to format, click
on done. I don't know why it says done, but
this is what this is how you do it. You
click on done and then it says format card okay
(04:49):
or cancel. We choose okay, and we're going to see
new format progress. It only takes a few seconds. There
we go format completed and then we just back out
of that. So that's all you got to do to
format the SD card. There's really nothing else to it.
So let's go here and start again at the top
of this page. So so we formatted the SD card
(05:11):
and it wants us to look and see what it says.
Going to the extension menu, touch forward two times to
page three, which is where we just were, and touch
soft version. That's going to be the software version that
is currently on the radio. So we're going to go
here back into that menu. Yeah, extension setting, that's correct
(05:34):
soft version, and you can see we are on display
version of zero one dash zero one. Main is zero
one dash zero zero, and you can you can see
all those here. SDR is zero one dash zero three.
District is USA. So that's the software version that we're
on right now that we're going to be updating from.
(05:55):
So it talks about downloading the firmware, and I've already
got this ZIP file. I'll grab this zip file here
in a minute. I've got this downloaded to my hard
drive on a Windows box. Apologize to some of you
who don't like Windows. Not really my problem, but uh,
you know, so we're going to extract that to I
know you guys can't see what I'm doing right now.
(06:16):
So I downloaded the zip file. I extracted it to
my desktop. Here it says unzipped the downloaded file using
a PC or Windows OS. Right click on the downloaded
zip extract all the firmware file. Extension extension is sfl
Sierra Foxtrot LIMA in the folder. So I've got the
folder and it's currently titled FTX one USA Firmware Update
(06:41):
twenty twenty five five, so it's just named twenty twenty
five O five. And then inside of the folder we
see these files right here, there's four files inside of
the folder. This manual that I've been reading to you
from the website is also included in here. You can
open up that manual and it's the same manual that
is listed that you download from the website. And then
(07:03):
you've got these SFL files here, and you can see
the bottom one says main, this one says display, and
this one says dispboot display boot. I assume that means so.
And they're all about three megabytes. Look at two and
a half to three megabytes something like that. Not very
large at all. So we're gonna go back over here,
and it says copy the Furware two and micro SD card.
(07:25):
It should be to a micro SD card. I don't know.
I'm a sticker for things like that. Copy the file
directly under the ftx one folder. So somehow I'm gonna
have to get this micro SD card. I hope that
now that I've formatted the micro SD card in the
Yazu radio, I hope that that Windows will read it.
That's gonna be the trick. I haven't tried this yet,
(07:47):
so let's try that. I'm put this in my fancy
little USB connector there. We're gonna see if that comes out.
It does, Okay, that comes up right there, So let
me bring that window up so you guys can see
it that. It's see ftx one folder from the formatted
SD card that I just took out of the radio,
and you can see right here it's got capture, memalist,
(08:08):
menu and playlist. And according to these instructions right here,
I need to put the firmware in this location under
the ftx one folder. So QSO log is not something
I have because I haven't logged any QSOs yet. So
we're going to bring this over here, and I gotta
find there it is, okay, so I gotta find that,
(08:28):
and I got to find these three files. Okay, So
those are the three firmware files there, copy to this location.
That's where we put them. Okay, how to update the firmware.
Turn the transceiver off. Let me take this out here,
and I got to put the micro est card back in.
By the way, here's something that's useful. If you haven't
(08:50):
seen this yet, you put you insert the micro SD
card this direction, not this direction. I mean, you'll figure
it out, because as long as you don't force it,
you won't be able to put it in this way.
So you put it in with the fate what I
would call the face of the card facing down or
facing towards the back of the radio. So I'm gonna
go ahead and turn the transceiver off because that's the
(09:11):
first step after putting the card back in anyway. And
if I were to put this card in now, it
would pop up a menu that says proceed to update
or something like that. But we're not going to do
that right now. So here's what we're gonna do. Turn
the transceiver off when updating, remove the battery, which I've
already done that, and connect it to an external power source.
(09:32):
Now I've got another video. I'm going to talk about
this battery and what I think about the battery, and
some drawbacks about the battery. The battery is USB C chargeable,
but it requires a fifteen volt power source with I
think two hundred and fifty wants or FO hundred fifty wants,
I can't remember what it is. It requires more of
a power source than what your standard USBC connector is
(09:54):
going to give you I'm going to talk about that
another video. But one thing I have learned is that
the USB the gigaparts, the latest Gigabarts battery box with
the upgraded USBC charger does charge the battery on this radio. Okay,
you can save five percent on that box with the
coupon code of KC five HWB, and they put them
(10:16):
on sale periodically. I suspect they'll have them on sale
next month or in a couple months for Huntsville Hamfest,
but we'll see. Anyway, I've got this plugged in via
this cable right now. Here's the battery batteries off the radio.
I've got this plugged in via this cable, and it's
actually running down to the same Gigabarts battery box plugged
into power poles direct twelve direct to twelve volts. Okay,
(10:36):
so that's what I've got plugged in right now. So
it says to take the battery out and plug in
directly to twelve volts. That's the first step. Turn the
transceiver off. I did that. Connect to a power source,
insert the Mike Gorest card. Okay, good. Important, do not
skip this section if the current main firmware is zero
one zero zero, proceed to step four. That's what it was, right, yes, yeah,
(11:01):
so if the current so once you update from this,
you probably haven't wanted to do this again. If the
current version is different from zero one zero zero, proceed
to step eleven. I had to go look again because
there were several numbers in there. Main is zero one
zero zero, as you saw earlier in this video. I
should have rebound my own video, but I didn't. Okay,
so we're gonna start at step four. Okay, So if
(11:21):
you once you update the main past zero one zero zero,
which is I think is what we're about to do,
then you won't have to do these steps four, five, six, seven, eight, nine,
and ten. You'll proceed directly to step eleven. Okay. If
the current main firm reversion is different than V zero
one dot zero zero, start from step eleven. Okay, so
we're gonna do this whole thing. So while pressing the
(11:43):
Q and B, the VM, and the MV buttons simultaneously,
all three buttons simultaneously turn on the transceiver. So that
is I think that's all three of these at the top,
Q and B, that's this one MV, so this one here,
this one here, and this one here, so one, two,
(12:05):
and three, and we're gonna power this on. Okay, it
says on the screen right there, I know that's small.
In the window, it says firmware update at the very
top right there, and it says insert latest version firmware
sd card. Touch the screen to continue, but the manual says,
do not touch the screen, proceed to next step. Okay, okay,
(12:29):
turn the function knob clockwise five clicks or more. The
Yazu bootloader screen appears. Okay, turn the function knob five
clicks or more. There we go. Okay, there we go.
Make sure that the display mark that the display shows
(12:50):
the check mark, then touch update. Do not mark anything
other than display. So it wants us to do the
display first. And that's exactly what came up. What came
up was display is checked here, Maine is not checked.
It's got a checkbox there. Both of them say ready,
and then DSP and SDR say no such file. So
(13:12):
there's no update for those today. So there's your there's
your update display, Maine. And it wants us to do
only the display update at first. Okay, make sure the display,
then touch update, touch update right here, Do not turn
off power. You can see the indicator going right there.
It says, skipped on Maine. So we're just updating to
(13:35):
display right now, which is exactly what it wants us
to do. Again, I think this is an initial update
because this is factory firmware. Okay, so the display turned off.
It says, the update prey indicator is displayed when the
firm or transfer begins. Please wait until the progress is completed.
Do not remove the SD card until or turn off
the transceiver while updating. If the update is interrupted, transceiver
(13:58):
will not operate properly. When and the update is complete.
The power is automatically turned off, it says. Right here,
unplug the DC power chord, then reconnect the powers automatically
turned on. Proceed to step twelve. Okay. So that's one
thing about this radio that I find a little bit
I don't know if annoying is the right word, but strange. Okay.
(14:19):
So we're turned off right now. There's no lights, no anything.
Every time you apply power to the radio, it comes automatically,
and that's what it's selling me to do. It says,
to remove this, put the power back in right there.
It didn't come back on. Okay, my power did not
(14:40):
come back on. It said, unplug the DC power cord,
reconnect and the power is automatically turned on. Proceed to
step twelve. That's what it says right here. This did
not happen. I had to press my power button for
it to come on. Okay, So okay, well it's on now.
Proceed to step twelve, press the funk press and hold
(15:03):
the function knob. Go back into the main media. In
other words, okay, touch the extension setting forward two screens.
That's where we're already at for two screens. If you're
not at the extension setting, okay, touch SD card and
then touch done on the firmware updates. So it wants
you to go in here, touch SD card and touch
(15:24):
done on the firmware update, and then it's checking. Right there,
a list of firmware stored on the micro SD card
is displayed, it says right here in this screenshot, check
mark indicates firmware to be updated. Ready indicates updateable files,
No such file, there's no target, and broken file indicates
(15:44):
there's some kind of corrupted version. So we have got clearly,
we've got a display update and a main update. So
the display is VO one dash show two and the
main is VO one das Show four. That's the firmware
that we're about to apply to this radio, and it
says this one this time. It says it's okay to
(16:06):
do both at the same time, because it says to
go ahead and touch the main and put the checkbox
in that one. So that's what we're gonna do. There,
there we go. Now both of those are ready, and
it says touch update to update the confirmation screen to cancel,
click cancel, touch okay. After if we click update, it'll
(16:28):
say update and click okay. So we're plugged into power
and it says something about do not turn off power,
and there we go. All right. You can see the
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(17:12):
Meszi and plenty for supporting the channel. All right, that
one is still go. Okay, so the display finished. You
can see it's got a green check mark here. Now
that one says finished. The main is going taken a
little bit longer than the first one. Still, yeah, it's moving. Okay.
That took about two minutes, maybe two and a half
something like that. And then the radio rebooted and it
(17:33):
comes back to this screen. Now we're gonna go back
over here. When the update is complete, the power is
automatically turned off and then on. That's what it did.
Reset the transceiver see below. Okay, while pressing back and
find fast turn the transceiver on. Okay, so it doesn't
tell you to turn the transceiver off, but obviously that's
(17:53):
what you have to do. So we're gonna go back
over here. We're gonna turn it off right there. We're
gonna press these two buttons at the same time, and
we're gonna turn the transceiver on and then that's what
it says should have the frequency display. We'll return to
one forty four dot zero on the subside and seven
(18:14):
dot zero on the main side. That's exactly what happened. Okay,
this completes the firmware upgrading process according to the manual.
So we're gonna go over here and look it's I'm
gonna put I've saved one memory channel in here, so
not a big deal to me. The three d uhs
waterfowl is on. I don't have an antenna hook connected
right now, obviously, Okay, so we're gonna go back in
(18:35):
here and look, go here stension and we're gonna scroll
down to software version. Now we're on display version v
OH one dash Show two, Maine is v OH one,
DAS Show four, DSP is OH one dash Show one.
There wasn't an update on that one, and SDR is
OH one dash Show three wasn't an update on those two.
So this was a firmware update for the display and
(18:55):
the main not the DSP or the SDR. That's what
we did. All successful, working as intended, and we can
change back and I can go back into the repeater
that I had this program down. So once again, this
is the first firmware update that Yezu has released since
this radio was debuted last month. I'm sure there will
be more Firmer updates. I'm looking forward to seeing how
(19:16):
well this one works and what they actually fixed. Because
there wasn't it said operating problems. I don't really know
what that means, so check the links in the description
below for everything. This should work for every version of
Firmer update from now forward. Put a comment below let
me know what other types of videos you'd like to
see about this radio. Seventy three
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