Uv390 Firmware

[Andrew Schiavo]

Ifyou were one of the earlier adopters of the MD-UV380, its now worth updating your radio to this latest firmware which supposedly fixes something with the DTMF, channel write faults and contact database related functions, but nothing in 17.05 is a major upgrade.

After updating from FW 16.05 and 16.06, there is no easily visualized changes when moving to FW 17.05. It is very important to use the right firmware or your radio may not function properly and you will then need to re-install the correct version. TYT website is here:

Downloading From TYT Website

Sometimes the TYT website can be slow, but not too slow. If you would like a slightly reorganized set of files related to this article, here is a link to download everything you need to upgrade to FW 17.05 along with CPS 1.07 and 1.08 hosted on the HVDN web-server.

Tried this with V18.03.bin on my TYT MD-UV380 purchased from Amazon Dec 2018). When download was finished I turned radio off, unplugged usb cable, turned back on and it's stuck at the splash screen. Been 15 minutes now, Any ideas? Thanks.

My TYT MD-UV390 handheld came by FedEx from China direct. It cost me US$126 plus $25 shipping. Everything was in the box, including radio, battery, charger, cradle, belt clip, two antennas and programming cable. So far, so good. Since you cannot actually do anything with a DMR radio until you program it, I thought I should start by reading the manual.

Without doubt, I found the enclosed English manual to be totally useless, and I mean totally. I doubt it even made sense in the original Chinese. Sigh. Most commercial users of these radios get them pre-programmed from their technical support folks, so I doubt anyone actually every sees or uses this manual, which is appropriate. Leave it in the box.

Fortunately, there is tons of information online about this radio, which is also quite similar to the original MD390 single band version. So, you can actually get started quite quickly. Here is a very good introductory video.

Attaching the battery and belt clip is straightforward. Inserting either the stubby or longer whip antenna, and doing an initial charge works fine. You can then install the enclosed CPS (customer programming software) on your Windows PC. Then, I got stuck.

First, the enclosed programming cable refused to work. At one end you plug this into the two-prong microphone jack on the radio, and the other end into USB on your computer. No response. After some puzzling, I discovered that the USB plug was loose in its plastic holder and did not seat properly into the USB jack on the PC. Holding the plug with some needle nose pliers, I was able to get a connection. You may have faced this problem with other USB dongles.

Second, still nothing. Windows Device Manager indicated it could not find a proper driver and there was none provided with the radio. Fortunately, I found the USB Driver for Digital Radio on the TYT web site and installed it. This is a STMicroelectronics Virtual COM Port operating in DFU mode. Device Firmware Upgrade is a vendor- and device-independent mechanism for upgrading the firmware of USB devices. Now, we are in business.

Hi again. I did finally get a code plug and I ended up getting a jumbo hotspot so I can use it since I only have one dmr repeater within 75 miles of my location. Luckily I can now get into the same room as my semi-local repeater. I have the MD-UV380 like your video above and I have another question. Have you tried any after-market firmware on this radio? I tried but I could not get it to boot up after it loaded successfully. (It would not come out of programming mode when I would turn it off and back on, it would just flash red-green.) Any ideas there? I was able to downgrade my firmware to v17 from v18 to get the radio to work again. v18 is not even available on the tyt website. Well, thanks again for any help or insight you may be able to give me.

Hello I bought a tyt md-380 from someone I no they have programmed it themself but if I try reprogram the radio it asks for a password and idk how to get passed this is there any other way to bypass this

I have an MD-UV380 that I just bought. I flashed using the 18.11 bin file, now all I have is lines of gibberish (look like some kind of pattern instead of letters) on all screens, anyway to get this back to a useable form?

4. Programming cable for easier Computer/PC (Microsoft Window 7/8/10 ONLY, No Mac supported) programming, Useful Tips on MIKLOR or FB Group, Free Driver/Firmware/Programming Software available on manufacturer TYT official website or download from our link, Mess of video tutorials on YouTube (KEY: MD380Tools firmware & Codeplug from DMR-MARC site)

Our company was founded in 1997, when we started paragliding and fell in love with it. Few years later we created the pilots team and started importing the equipment (for us at first, later we also started supplying other pilots). At the begging we had only operated in a small office space, now we own a spacious complex and offer products from brands such as Gin, U-Turn, Independence, Icario, Woody Valley and many more.

The advent of digital modes radically changed the way we experience ham radio, the digital transport of voice allows to interconnect stations from all over the world through the internet. If on one hand the physical distance between places is no more a limit, the correct configuration of the radio has become a true challenge. In particular, the commercial nature of the most common digital modes, the technical complexity combined with a lack of information, and the legal and patent restrictions on the voice encoding technology hampered the experimentation on digital modes, constraining it to either simple use or limited interconnection experiments.

However, this landscape will soon change, the rising M17 protocol is estabilishing itself as an open source and community driven alternative to pre-existing digital modes. M17 is developed by hams for hams, it's transparent and well-documented, and embodies the open source vocoder codec2. Corrently, however, there are no commercial radios able to module the M17 protocol, even if there are many community-developed alternatives such as TNC3, M17Client and Module 17, notwithstanding the possibility of modulating and demodulating usinng a PC and an SDR.

The availability of infrastructure creates a strong drive to the adoption of new technologies. Curently the last firmware release of the MMDVM platform natively supports M17, this allows to easily create M17-enabled repeaters, or to make pre-exising repeaters M17-capable, in fact M17 is expected to be correctly modulated by MMDVM system already capable of modulating DMR.

The protocol, however, is still is its initial growth phase, where few people have access to a compatible device, thus few repeater operators invest in repeaters and hotspots supporting M17.

OpenRTX allows then to use a radio which costs less than a hundred euros, to modulate a protocol which the radio was not originally built to modulate. This allows, in theory, to implement any other potocol which fits the modulation bandwidth of the original baseband, everything implemented in software in the radio's own microcontroller. It will be thus possible to implement the transmission and reception of various protocols, such as: APRS, SSTV and P25.

The availability of a low-cost portable radio on which you can run your own code, enables a new way to enjoy ham radio, in which it is no more necessary to possess the latest radio model to be able to experiment. A way in which ideas and work from the individual can be shared to the whole community. An example of a community-sourced feature is the Low Earth Orbit (LEO) tracking with doppler correction, available in OpenRTX, implemented by Mike McGinty.

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