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