================================================================ Motorola - GTX - Radio Service Software (RSS), RVN-4150, has been updated as follows; Part #......................... RVN-4150-H includes 3.5" installation diskette RSS User's Manual #....... 68P0-2948C70-C Software Version............... R04.00.01 Software Date.................. 06-OCT-00 ================================================================ !! CAUTION !! THIS RSS VERSION -NOT- BACKWARD-COMPATIBLE WITH RSS VERSIONS B02.06.04 ( 06-OCT-98 ) AND EARLIER. ================================================================ This Version of the Radio Service Software (RSS) incorporates CHANGES made to the GTX Radio CODEPLUG with regard to additions to the GTX Radio Model Family (GTX "Basic" and "High-Power" Models now added). These changes are -NOT- BACKWARD-COMPATIBLE with -previous- Versions (B02.06.04 06-OCT-99 and earlier) of the GTX RSS. This RSS will properly READ all current Codeplug Archive Files and Radio Codeplugs. However, Codeplugs which are WRITTEN with this RSS Version will -NOT- be "readable" by prior RSS Versions ( B02.06.04 and earlier ). The changes are "transparent" to the Radio's Firmware, so the changes -ARE- COMPATIBLE with all current/prior Radio Firmware Versions. USE CAUTION, if you are distibuting this RSS Version among several Service Locations, to ensure that -all- Locations begin use of this Version at the same time. ================================================================ INSTALLATION: Motorola GTX Radio Service Software (RSS): Insert the Installation Diskette into the A: -or- B: diskette drive, then Enter A: -or- B: at the DOS command prompt, to change to that drive as the "current working" drive. Then Enter "INSTALL". Select the proper Disk Drive and SubDirectory for installation. !! CAUTION !! You cannot place the RSS SubDirectory in your DOS "PATH". YOU MUST BE IN the RSS WORKING SubDirectory to properly execute the RSS (due to overlay loading). The dummy batch file GTX.BAX is installed with the RSS during the RSS installation, and "points to" the TARGET Installation disk drive and directory. This file is then copied to the root directory of your "C:" disk as file GTX.BAT IF YOU INSTALL THE RSS ON A NON-DEFAULT DRIVE and/or DIRECTORY, please EXAMINE this file for proper "path" drive/directory. If you install to non-default disk, add "C:\" to the DOS "SET PATH=" in your AUTOEXEC.BAT file, so the GTX.BAT file is found by DOS. ================================================================ USER NOTES: 1. - !! CAUTION !! Attempting to use an un-formatted FLOPPY DISKETTE for archiving codeplugs will result in a fatal (RSS) DOS error #31. See file DOS_INFO.DOC for using floppy diskettes for archiving, and for DOS error codes. 2. - !! IMPORTANT !! Please see file DOS_INFO.DOC for RSS/DOS/PC setup and trouble-shooting information. 3. - !! IMPORTANT !! The STACK size of this RSS has been increased, to enhance stability in a normal DOS environment (this does NOT affect execution memory requirements). If your environment includes elements which create abnormal quantities of hardware/software interrupts, then we STRONGLY recommend the following statement be inserted into your CONFIG.SYS file (DOS 3.2, 3.3, 4.x, 5.x, 6.x): STACKS=9,512 This tells DOS to furnish stack space to hardware interrupts which occur during RSS execution, thereby reducing the RSS stack loading, and avoiding errant DOS/application behaviours. This statement MAY reduce the amount of conventional memory available by approximately 4 Kb. The number of stacks (9) can be increased to max. 64, if problems persist. 4. - This RSS requires approximately 520 KB of free CONVENTIONAL memory for INITIAL execution. However, more memory is dynamically allocated for functions such as codeplug and system-key reads (more files = more memory required), and if the RSS cannot allocate enough memory, an error message is given. Make more memory available by using DOS "HIMEM.SYS" and "DOS=HIGH", and using DOS 5x/6x "MEM /C" to list memory allocations from CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT, removing unnecessary items from those files. This RSS does -NOT- require EXTENDED nor EXPANDED memory. 5. - The "noems" argument to EMM386.EXE can prevent THIS RSS from executing properly on some PCs and versions of DOS. EMM386 can be used to free some CONVENTIONAL memory by allowing other drivers to be loaded into UPPER memory. You can use the "ram" -or- "noems" switch to access UPPER memory. Using the EMM386 "ram 64" switch to allocate the smallest-possible amount of EXPANDED memory (instead of using "noems") will allow THIS RSS to execute, when EMM386 is used only to load other drivers into UPPER memory. Please consult DOS 'help emm386.exe' for information. 6. - Removed the "TIMING CALIBRATION VALUE" Field from the "F9/F3 - CONFIGURE COMPUTER" screen. This delay factor is no longer part of the timing for the Radio/RIB/PC Communications via the PC's Comm. Port. 7. - The PC-RIB-Radio Communications Timing has been changed, to enhance the Comm. Bus operation over a wider range of CPU speeds and Operating Systems (DOS, Windows). This version contains 2 Timers which are independent of CPU speed, and which do not conflict directly with Windows' multi-tasking Timer when the RSS is used in Windows' FULL-SCREEN DOS MODE. If Reading or Writing the Radio's Codeplug causes a consistent failure on your PC, please see the WINDOWS item below, -and- the DOS_INFO.DOC file that was installed with this RSS, -BEFORE- contacting the Motorola Customer Resources RSS Support Team. 8. - The RSS will now allow selection of Comm. Ports 1 - 4. The Comm. Port selected must have a valid address in the PC BIOS Device Data Area (40:00 - 40:07), and the UART must be 8250/16450/16550 compatible, or an error message "SELECTED PORT NOT VALID" is shown. If -no- valid port address is found in the BIOS area, the message "NO VALID PORT ADDRESS FOUND" is shown. If comm. ports are added to your PC, the proper Comm. Port I/O Addresses must be inserted into the PC BIOS Device Data Area, or the RSS will not recognize that Port as "valid". The I/O Address is a two-byte value (bytes are -reversed- in memory). Most PC BIOS Start-Up routines will only scan and insert addresses for Comm. Ports 1 and 2. To add Comm. Ports 3 and 4, use the DOS "DEBUG" command, called in your AUTOEXEC.BAT file, and an ASCII text file of DEBUG commands in your C:\ directory (which you must create with a text-editor). This will allow DOS, Windows and the RSS to "see" the new Comm. Port(s). Use DOS command "MSD" to confirm adresses of existing Comm. Ports, prior to installing new Comm. Ports. ------------------------- A) C:\AUTOEXEC.BAT file; ------------------------- rem *** call DEBUG w/Command File, set Comm. Port 3-4 Addresses debug TxHighID -and- TxInhibitLowID > TxInhibitHighID. User cannot exit the Screen until error condition is corrected. 21. - PLAsw-37009 - Tuning Operations timing changed within PC-RIB-Radio Communications Interface so that incrementing/decrementing values with PTT toggled -ON- will consistently be sent correctly to Radio. 22. - PLAsw-35363 - Removed F4/F2 Screen "hidden" dummy field; when pressed, cursor would step through all -valid- (editable) field(s), then land on a dummy "hidden" field. Next would return to valid field(s). 23. - Corrected problem with F3/F5/F8 - "FULL/COPY CLONE". When all Privacy Plus Systems on Clone List were -without- System Keys, RSS would appear to "hang" the PC. RSS now gives error panel stating that System Keys are required for all Systems on Clone List. 24. - Corrected CUSTOMER INFO Field during archive/backup of codeplug files; The backup database file's CUSTOMER ID Field is now properly updated. 25. - PLAsw-45940 =========== Corrected 900 MHz Squelch Tuning Frequency indicator field on -2- tuning screens: F2/F2/F8 and F2/F6/F2/F9. Field now shows correct frequency. 26. - PLAsw-45943 =========== Corrected: Using "F3/F8 - PROGRAM RADIO" -or- "F3/F5/F8 - FULL CLONE" -or- "F2/F6 REPLACE BOARD" when Controller Board's Codeplug is BLANKED, certain large Codeplugs were not correctly programmed by the Radio. No error was given by the Radio or the RSS after Codeplug WRITE. However, subsequent Radio READ resulted in RSS reporting checksum errors. WRITING the Codeplug to the Radio again "solved" the problem. Root cause was "data overload" in the Radio's PROGRAM CODEPLUG mode. Solution was to reduce the number of bytes per WRITE data block to 1/2 the prior value. It now takes longer to PROGRAM/WRITE the Codeplug, but no further data errors should occur. !! CAUTION !! ============= It is possible that data corruption could be embedded in Codeplug Archive Files, and this would NOT be corrected via reading the file then programming the Radio. Data discrepencies should be corrected by reading the Radio, editing erroneous data, programming the Radio, validating the Radio's operation for correctness, and then RE-SAVING the Codeplug to REPLACE THE CORRUPTED ARCHIVE FILE. 27. - PLAsw-45950 =========== RESTORED to the "F3/F5/F8 FULL CLONE" Screen: Serial Number Field, the "F2 - READ (RADIO) SERIAL NUMBER" function, and the "F7 - SAVE TO FILE" function. All have been limited to restrict illegal cloning activies, all require System Key(s) be present for any F2/.. or F7/.. activity, or to edit the Serial Number Field. 28. - PLAsw-45952: ============ Corrected: Conventional Modes, with TALK-AROUND Enabled, sometimes were not correctly setting Tx Freq. = Rx Freq., resulting in TA Mode failure. !! CAUTION !! ============= If you have Master Codeplug File(s) used for Cloning Operations, the FILES could also contain the incorrect TX Frequencies on Conventional Modes with Talk-Around Enabled. You are STRONGLY ADVISED to read these files into the RSS, review -all- Conventional Mode(s) data on the "F4/F4 Conventional Mode" screen, then re-write that Codeplug back to the File Archive. This will correct any errors within the Archive Files. 29. - Modified the "F3/F3/F2 ADD (file to) ARCHIVE" Function to accept the ASCII underscore ("_") character as part of a filename to be added to the GTX.DBF archive database file. This now allows factory default Codeplugs (e.g. Serial Number "GTX_MOB.800") to be added to an existing archive. 30. - PLAsw-45953: ============ Corrected: Recent Prior Versions -disabled- the HORN AND LIGHTS operation on Mobile Radios. Now the HORN AND LIGHTS operates properly. 31. - ADD the "F2/F6/F2/F5 - TX CURRENT LIMIT" Tuning Screen for GTX MOBILES. ADD the "F2/F6/F4 - TX CURRENT LIMIT" Tuning Screen for GTX MOBILES. This tuning procedure is applicable only to GTX High-Power Mobiles and the Enhanced Low-Power Mobiles (and replacement control/RF boards for original Low-Power Mobiles). Original Low-Power Mobiles do not have data modem capability, and they also lack the Transmit Current Limiting circuitry for this tuning adjustment. This procedure will have -no- effect on these Mobiles, and can / should be skipped/exited. 32. - On the "F3/F5/F8 - FULL CLONE" Screen; Correct the "F2 - Read Serial Number" Function to operate consistently, -and- make the Serial Number Field -editable- for LTR Radios. Correct occasional computer "lockup". 33. - CORRECTED: Problem with F3/F5/F5 PARTIAL CLONE: Now correctly copies the state of the F4/F2/F6 "SCAN TYPE" field -from- the MASTER (computer) -to- the TARGET (Radio) Codeplug. 34. - GTX "HIGH-POWER" Mobile Radio MODEL NUMBERS Changed: (A) - The RSS support file GTX.MDF has been modified to include the latest (correct) "High-Power" Model Numbers. (B) - This file, README.TXT, has had the Model Number Table, below, updated to show the latest (correct) Model Numbers for the "Standard" Full-Feature "High-Power" MOBILES: (C) - Every sub-directory (and/or floppy diskette) that contains Archive (Codeplug) files will also contain a copy of the GTX.DBF 'DataBase' File which is unique to that sub-directory. This file contains the "CUSTOMER INFO", date, serial and model number information for each Archive File, and these are displayed on the "F3/F3-Get/Save-Get File" screen. The High-Power model numbers are stored as ASCII strings within the GTX.DBF file, and will remain incorrect until those Archive files are read and re-written using this version of the RSS (which also rewrites each Archive's information within the GTX.DBF file). ===================================================================== The Motorola GTX Radio Service Software (RSS) for Privacy Plus / LTR currently supports these Models: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 10 Trunk Systems x 8 Groups/Sys (80 Trunked Modes), 10 Conv. Channels. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "Standard" Full-Feature Models; Portables have Keypad -and- Display. M11UGD6CB1_N - GTX MOBILE, 800 MHz, 15 Watt, Privacy Plus. M11WGD4CB1_N - GTX MOBILE, 900 MHz, 12 Watt, Privacy Plus. H11UCD6CB1_N - GTX PORTABLE, 800 MHz, 3 Watt, Privacy Plus. H11WCD4CB1_N - GTX PORTABLE, 900 MHz, 3 Watt, Privacy Plus. M11UGD6CU1_N - GTX MOBILE, 800 MHz, 15 Watt, LTR. M11WGD4CU1_N - GTX MOBILE, 900 MHz. 12 Watt, LTR. H11UCD6CU1_N - GTX PORTABLE, 800 MHz, 3 Watt, LTR. H11WCD4CU1_N - GTX PORTABLE, 900 MHz, 3 Watt, LTR. "Standard" Full-Feature "High-Power" MOBILES: M11URD6CB1_N - GTX MOBILE, 800 MHz, 35 Watt, Privacy Plus. M11WRD4CB1_N - GTX MOBILE, 900 MHz, 30 Watt, Privacy Plus. M11URD6CU1_N - GTX MOBILE, 800 MHz, 35 Watt, LTR. M11WRD4CU1_N - GTX MOBILE, 900 MHz, 30 Watt, LTR. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 4 Trunk Systems x 3 Groups/Sys (12 Trunked Modes), 4 Conv. Channels. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "BASIC" Models; Portables have -NO- Keypad, -NO- Display. H11UCC6DB1_N - GTX PORTABLE, 800 MHz, 3 Watt, Privacy Plus. H11WCC4DB1_N - GTX PORTABLE, 900 MHz, 3 Watt, Privacy Plus. H11UCC6DU1_N - GTX PORTABLE, 800 MHz, 3 Watt, LTR. H11WCC4DU1_N - GTX PORTABLE, 900 MHz, 3 Watt, LTR. ===================================================================== (C) Copyright MOTOROLA Inc. 1996-2000. All Rights Reserved.