60 ‐ Flashing the firmware

Note

Press the programming cable firmly into the radio

This is an example where this is NOT the case

Make an eeprom-backup (once)

Just to be sure.

Important

First: Did you make two backups from the EEPROM ?

Make this backup (once) of your radio, with k5prog-win in two steps.

1. Read Configuration. And save the file.
2. Read Calibration. And save the file.

Second: Use Chirp (EGZUMER version) and make backup of the(original) channellist

Step 1 and 2 ready ? Now you can continue ....

Flash the latest firmware release

Flashing firmware is possible with a separate program, but can now be done much more easily from your web browser (Only Chromium based browsers such as Chrome, Edge, Opera).

Just goto the page with official released firmware releases.

• Use a Baofeng/Kenwood-like USB-2-Serial-cable and connect it to your computer.

• Switch off UV-K5

• Put the UV-K5 into programming mode (press and hold the PTT button and turn on the UV-K5, check that the white flashlight lights up).

• Then press the programming cable firmly into the radio

• Select the latest/desired firmware and look for 🗲FLASH WITH A BROWSER🗲 and the build-in UV-mod-programming-page start. Just wait a moment and the firmware is loaded, or select a different file from your PC.

  

• Press flash firmware and a screen pops-up.

• Select the Com-port where the programming-interface is connected.

  

• Press Connect and the firmware programming starts (White LED starts flashing) and view the progress in the browser-screen

• Just wait ... until

  

• When finished, disconnect the programming interface and enjoy a new release version ;-)