How to Upgrade EdgeTX 2.x.x to 2.8.0 on a Radiomaster TX16s 

If you're updating to 2.9 make sure you delete the sounds folder as he does in the video before copying over the new one. Otherwise you'll have a full sd card most likely. Thanks for the great video! Helped me get it done quickly so I can get back to flying.

Amazing, THANK YOU!! Went from 2.7.1 to the 2.10.1 PERFECTLY!! Thanks again!!

Hi from Prague in Czech Republic. Thank you for your educative videos. You are very inspirating for me. Sorry for my english.

Unbelievably competent guide to getting the latest software on your tx16. This has to be THE ddefinitive guide to recovering a bricked radio. The only possible improvement would be to show your mouse movements on screen a bit more slowly for those of us who are by this time in unfamiliar terrirory. But hey, this is why we have pause and repeated playback available eh? Well done and thanks a million. You have a new subscriber - RESPECT !

Today I uploaded 2.8.0 PL. Without problems. The radio works very well. Thank you for videos showing how to perform migrations.

As always, very helpful content. Thank you very much for taking the time and effort of creating these videos, so the rest of us don't struggle as much with EdgeTX 🙂

Thanks for all the thorough info. I'm moving from Spektrum to Radiomaster TX16S and your videos are very helpful.

Thank you so much making this so easy, clear & fun. always appreciate your time you spend on these videos and the amount of info you share👍

Awesome tutorial!! I would not have been able to update without it. Thanks for taking time to do this. It means a lot!!

I was hesitant to update from 2.7 since I just got my TX16S but following this video made it super easy and I was successful. Many thanks, earned a sub from me!

Fantastic. Looking forward to use this. Thanks John for another great video. You make it so easy for us.

Thanks for producing this, I just followed you step by step and updated my TX16S without any problems. A very useful video.

I followed your tutorial and everything worked perfectly. Awesome man, great work and thanks for all your input and work to make it simple for us. Cheers.

Exactly what I need. Liked first then I'll watch and follow your guide. Thanks for the sharing!

Just flashed my tx16s with 2.8 Absolutely fantastic. You made it so easy John. Thanks you very much 😊

Thanks John, another indepth quality video. Edge TX 2.8, great improvement over previous versions, become even more intuitive.

Very clean and sharp hands on tutorial. And love the practice of deleting the stuff right away once you transferred. Big up!!!!

Thanks for the good guide. I'm familiar with PCs and RC stuff - but still it's helpful to have someone talk you thru the process! greets, Mario

Very professionally structured contribution. Have followed it 1:1, and it works, thank you!

John, thank you so much, I just updated to 2.9 using this guide and just substituted the version numbers. I can say it worked flawlessly.

You are the absolute best resource for learning about this stuff. I had 3 years of hell, courtesy of OpenTX, and the lack of good tutorials. I successfully updated my TX16S from 2.7 to 2.8 using your video. I am so grateful there is someone smart enough to teach this. Many, many thanks!!

John, great work! I don't know what I would do without your help-THX

this video helped me recover a bricked radio. You are one million times better than joshula beardwall

just few seconds before updated my new TX16S to v2.8.3 by your instructions! Thank you!

Just want to say thanks for all you did in your videos to make this possible. I followed your steps to a T, and it worked out perfectly, so far lol. Now updated to the 2.8. It may have been mentioned and may have not been. But what I did was made a copy to my desktop of the 2.7 sd card just in case something was to go wrong, then followed your video and put all the new contents to a new separate sd card and used that card to write the new firmware. So not only do I have a copy on my desktop, also have the original sd put in a safe place. Either way, it worked and I appreciate it.

This is an excellent guide, and I followed step by step. Unless it's me, and I missed something. It didn't include how to update the bootloader itself to 2.8. Besides that, it's great. For anyone wondering To flash the bootloader Hit SYS, select your firmware folder, select the same firmware you flashed in the Bootloader mode, and Flash Bootloader. Thanks for making the videos!

just moved over to 2.8.5. - This was an exceptional tutorial (as ever!!!!) clear and concise- and worked as described. will be heading over to 2.9 soon enough but super happy as this fixed all of my current issues (including your superb tip about my mpm) time to go fly :)

Oh my goodness finally lol after tinkering with it for 2 nights finally updated. Only had the Tx16 a week and my computer is like 15-20yrs old so made it more difficult 😅

I had no issues following your guide with my mark2. Thank you.

Another great video, I´ve learned so much about EdgeTx from them, thank you, Cheers!

Hi from Australia. Tyvm for instructional video. Helped me out immensely and now have edge tx all setup on my Radiomaster tx16s and works flawlessly. Greatly appreciated the very easy to follow instructions..

Awesome video, so easy to follow, thanks for these tutorial videos has helped me out now end in updating edgetx and firmware. Keep up the great work.

This was a very good video. Now I have upgraded my tX16 to 2.8.0 👍

ahh .. Finaly found the page, i fell down the stairs the medication is messin me a bit. thanx for all you do for us its Great. and thank you once again for helping me setup my radio and i might even have companion working but i cant sit here anymore .i shall continue tomorrow cheers mate. still wish had that 10x speed dial :) ox

Thanks John! Great video to make this upgrade easy and simple!!

That sure is easy to upgrade EdgeTX. Even I can do this with no trouble. Good job John.

You are probably the best tutor, while having the latest info for the RM TS16S radio programming on YT. Simple, perfect, direct, epically informative and without drama and no wasting of anyone's time. Thanks for this yet again.

Just used this to upgrade RM TX16S (with internal ELRS module) from EdgeTX 2.7.1 (the version it came with) to 2.8.5, the video was very very helpful. Thanks!

Great instructional Video, it was the best I've seen, very detailed and slow enough for a newbie to follow. Mine would not update the Multi4in1 version, failed during the update. I thought my TX16S had Multiprotocol on it, but I guess it didn't. When I selected the option to check the version the and selected Modules/RX Version it showed Internal Module -Module Off, External Module - Module Off.

You are a Zen master my friend. You must do this for a living because that was the tightest how-to video I've ever watched. Thank you so much.

Works perfectly! Thanks so much for the videos you produce!

I agree with so many others. Best way to learn Radiomaster on YT is right here. Without question. Great job.

Awesome , much thanks. Just upgraded from 2.6 to 2.8.4 on my Jumper T18.

fantastic Video. I was able to upgrade with absolutely zero issues! Thank you.

Great Video. I can't believe I made it. You made this rocket science very simple. THANK YOU.

Excellent, just successfully updated my brand new Radiomaster TX16s Mark II

That was so freaking helpful, thanks bro it’s really appreciate 👍🏻👍🏻

Thanks mate for this. All my EdgeTX models had disappeared. Had backed them up though. I had downloaded the latest Companion but not updated firmware on the radio. Did all of the housekeeping suggested in your video. Models are back and parked in their proper hangars. Cheers from Oz.

Thank you very much, did the update, worked great. Very easy to follow video

Yep agree with all comments below and above. As much as I love JB content, and he is very thorough - but sometimes its just too confusing and convoluted. Sorry Joshy....sometimes lol. But this VIDEO straight to the point - easy done and dusted....pure brevity. Thankyou!

Thank you very much for your help! it's very detailed and easy to understand tutorial.

This video was a lot of help updating to 2.8

wish i had 10x speed :P 7mins later, Thanks for sharing, awesome video as usual.I'll be waiting for the new one 2.9.0

Once again, thank you so much for helping me!!!!

Awesome video and information, thanks so much!

Hi John, I'm really late to the RadioMaster party and purchased a TX16S MkII 4in1 a couple months ago from Grayson Hobby GA. I was able to pick it up in person and when they were giving me the run down. They mentioned you and your RC Video Reviews being the best most comprehensive info out there! Well, IMO they were right because you walked me through Companion and upgrading EdgeTX to Flying Dutchman with not one error. I setup my 1st airplane using your video configuring the S6R w/ 3-axis stabilization. It took a little bit to get to the right menu places in the EdgeTX vs the OpenTX videos, but it worked out find. I'm finding my way around much easier now and have been tweaking the radio with some of your snippets so, I feel better having my 1st successful Airplane flight a couple weeks later. All that being said; I can not find the video where you mentioned A Volume boost "loader" by dropping another sound file into the SD folder. I thought it was mentioned during the Companion install or the EdgeTX update, but I went back to review and can not find it.... Appreciate the help and enjoy your coffee! Regards - Keith aka Simages

Just bought a tx16s installed with edgetx 2.6. Watched your video "Edge TX 2.6 : How to set up a plane" It was awesome and have used it as a basis in plane setups. Now I am watching/learning this instructional video. Thank you for your time and expertise. I can't help but notice that you have been successful by including the model name on the home screen. That is a feature that I am struggling to figure out. If you can pass on advice on how to include model names, that would be fantastic. Thanks for all you time and help you give to help us understand this radio system. Cheers !

Great video, thanks for the help!

Update done, Just an Excellent tutorial!

Another fantastic video.

Thank you for this - very helpful

Great video Bro

Fantastic tutorial thank you 🎉

Thank you for this. I've looked high and low to find this info. Your teaching actually worked with this old newby brain. In my old age, I was hoping to get into this hobby, but it sure is overwhelming. I've gone crazy and bought the Apprentice STS and another used one that was crashed, the first 1.5m Timber from Horizon. I also bought a few used/wrecked Trex 450 helicopters, and after repairing them, I realize I need to sell them. lol Now I need to learn about putting a new model on the transmitter and binding the receiver to that plane. Sure seems like a lot of work, but what else do I have to do. lol Anyway, thanks again.

This is why I became one of your Patreons ! ALL GOOD ! Except, Amber is still telling me "Welcome to open TX" even though I thought I flashed Michelle English US. Why ? TY!

So much help, thank you.

Thanks for this got mine all setup

Thanks for another great video John Wish I knew someone good with computers to do the update for me ! I'm not very computer savvy

Great work ...cheers

Fantastic congratulations

thx so much. worked perfectly.

Wooo I thought I bricked it. Followed this exactly. It froze up about 80% into writing firmware. It wouldn’t respond to anything. I gave it a half hour. So I disconnected the battery. When pressing power it cycled the 1-6 flight mode lights several times and then nothing. So I used the boot loader log in method and it took me into the write menu. Followed the steps again and it worked the second time. 😂 I’m calling it a night and I’ll pick this back up in the morning. I see I have the Dutchman on board v2.8.4 - the firmware file name changes and by this version it’s name is ; TX16s-da28e35.bin Once again , thank you so much. I use your videos exclusively. They’re absolutely the best on RU-vid for the TX16s

Once again Thank you so much.

Excellent! Thank you, this was a lot of steps. I had an odd experience, when I was changing the labels the radio locked up. I couldn't do anything including turn it off, I had to pull the battery. When it came back up it said EMERGENCY MODE. I rebooted and it seems ok now.

V helpful video John - just thought I'd share this - in my case, following the upgrade to 2.8.0, my TX16S radio defaulted to Mode 1 having previously been in Mode 2 - change mode back to 2 in Radio Settings. A clue to this having happened is 'Throttle Warning' at power up .... the mode change changes order only of Output channels as far as I can tell...

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Out of a bind again.. thanks Models wasn't showing up and this fixed it

THX the best toutorial!!!

Thanks so much!

Huge contribution of work, thank you, but I'm waiting for the PL version. I am from Poland.

Wow! Thank you !!

Thank you so much!!!

many thanks

Thank you sir

Very nice video. By the way, I'd like you to make a video on how to resize and import pictures of airplanes into the Radiomaster TX16 mkII. Thank you.

Thank you 👍

Thanks!

Thank you.

Thanks 🙏

I would like to say Thank You for this video! this is super helpful. Is there any chance you could do a video on how to setup TBS Crossfire with EdgeTX, i'm having a hard time getting my to work at all.

John: I have several Radiomaster & Jumper transmitters that have never been exposed to Edge Tx, but I have decided it is time to install this software on them for the first time. My question is, can I follow your instructions in this video verbatim to fully install Edge Tx ver 2.8 and expect it to run on them without special steps or instructions? Your inciteful, clear, and logical videos are phenomenally useful to everyone in this hobby, especially those of us without your wonderful talent for understanding everything you provide training on like this video. Please keep up what you are doing. Now I'm looking forward to exploring Edge Tx on my Radiomaster and Jumper radios! Respectfully, - Jim Eastep

thanks a lot!

Awesome tutorial as always. 👍 Do you lose any settings that were previously done on the tx16s after the upgrade?

I assume most of this process applies to the latest updates also? Edit: 2. 9. 2 successfully installed and flashed. - Thanks to this great video. 👍

Takk!

Thank you, John, another successful update! Your help is invaluable. 💯Do you have any recommendations for a theme that is visible in bright sunlight, or is there an adjustment in the theme settings to improve the visibility in bright light?

thanks John. I know you have a lot of followers, but you may recall I asked you why my TX16s radio lost touch screen. You gave me several causes. Here is my dilemma. For months after I upgraded to EdgeTX, I had touch screen. Radiomaster did a great job of repairing some problems I had. One thing they did was install a new SD card and all of it's contents. When I got it back, is when I lost touch screen. I checked and RM installed EdgeTX 2.7. Would it return my touch screen if I upgraded to 2.9? Sorry for the lengthy comment.

So good, so confidence inspiring. Thank you! Say, is there a 'best practice' way of updating the radio? As you mentioned in the description, this is the 'old school, manual way' (the way I've always done it) but now it seems it can be done through 'Buddy' and even EdgeTX Companion. Almost too many options. Are the developers pushing towards one preferred way - for example 'Buddy'? Would love your thoughts on that if you get a chance. Thanks again!!

Hi, great tutorial. Is it ok to use this method, step for step, to upgrade to the latest 2.9.4 or is there something else I need to know. Thanks for the anticipated reply. Tony in UK

Thank you for your video im a spektrun user I just purchased R.M tx16s settings up my first quad can't seem to locate travel adjust or subtrim so I can be at the correct min. center .max maybe you can shed some light thank you radio came with the previous version of edge tx