I followed your steps and it worked perfectly. One added item, when you get to that last YES, I want to start the upgrade, you must press and hold for about 1 second to start the process. Just tapping will not start. I guess they are worried you might not really mean it. I watched Kevin L’s channel yesterday in an episode in which he installed the firmware upgrade to his ICOM 705. It has the same features as the 7300 upgrade. Happy landings.
Great instructions. Upgrade all done. Thanks Dave. I notice one more slight variation (7:24) to the steps. To get to the "information" page, you need to select "Others". The video led me to think it was the "SD Card" that I needed to select. Just FYI. Unmount in computer terms actually means to flush all the buffers to the output device, in case the SD card. When a computer writes it actually writes to an internal buffer. It later flushes the buffer onto the output device. Writing to an internal buffer is always faster than writing to an external device. If you pull the card before the buffers completely writes the data out, you may only have part of your information on the SD card. The card is then corrupted. When the write completes, it also finalizes the internal file/directory structure.
One thing that caught me out is that you have to hold your finger on the second "Yes" button to apply the firmware for a couple seconds. Just tapping it does nothing.
I noted the same thing; I tapped "YES" (multiple times) which worked on every other screen but nothing happened. I got a little scared that I'd "broken" the radio and would have to ship it to Japan! I re-ran the video and repeated each step to no avail, then I read down and found your comment. All is well....whew!
Thanks Dave, have shared your video with the folks who have 7300's in our club; Icom updates can be "exciting" the first couple of times! 73 - Dino KLØS
Hi,good informative video, I did mine yesterday, took me 4 attempts, mostly my fault,but try and try again,,,,,there are some useful new features,,the multi switch, great improvement,,,,thanks from Rotterdam 73..
Wow! Beautifully done video, masterful instructions that cover every nuance. The process is intimidating if you are not accustomed to a procedure that has so many steps. (Surely ICOM could automate the firmware update! Think: iPhone.) But until they do, thank you Dave for such a clear, confidence-boosting video. ICOM oughta pay you for making it!
Thanks Dave! Really appreciate this video. I was having trouble updating my 7300 and I was missing a key component. The firmware file needs to be in the 7300 folder on the SD card.
At minute 7.00 - 7.30 you indicate that you go to menu item "SD Card" to get to the "Information" menu item. That is incorrect you want to select "Others" at that point. Also as Jonathan Burchmore mentions, and it is in the full manual in the firmware update chapter, you must hold the "yes" icon for a full second to get the update to begin. That one caught me until I reviewed the manual.
as this video is viewed by my on turkey day 2021 there is all ready a ver 1.41 out... were does this insanity stop? i once had a laptop computer and micro-carp, kept down loading (without my consent) and bricked it by loading up all the memory, so i could not even do a de-frag. but the worst part was this computer was less than a year old. now i am to brick my new ic7300 by constantly down loading fixes for problems i do not even know i have? great down load a "up-date". gets bricked and have to dump in more money for shipping (both ways) insurance, (taxes, fees?) maybe even a cost to fix it? on a brand new radio. maybe get it back in a year or two. with "other" damage. btw: i do love your u-tube channel, i watch as much as i can. please keep up the great work.
Thanks! Your post was the first I'd heard of this and provided everything I needed to accomplish the firmware upgrade. I subscribed to your channel! 73 WA7JB
Hi Dave, Great video. The Icom 9700 also has a new update that came out recently. I bought both radios last year and am in the process of putting up my HF antenna. Still have to wait for the snow to melt. We just got our general tickets two weeks ago. We finally got our ham shack the way we want it. I will be putting in new SD cards so I will have to format them before I begin the update. I will follow your video step by step. Thank you Sir. KD9NGU
Thank you Mr. Dave. Oh how I hate computers. Updating Firmware is a necessary evil of modern day electronics. I guess I’ll have to bite the bullet and tackle this update. Your tutorial will help. I’m Guessing the radio menu stuff you did first was to prepare the radio and SD card. Then pull the SD card and load the 1.4 update to it. Then put the SD card back in the radio and load 1.4 into it. 👍🏻. 🙏🙏🙏
I was getting frustrated when prompted to start the update and it would not start. Don't click on YES. One has to hold the YES button down until the update starts.
Great video! But can you do a follow up one on what exactly changed? You touched upon something to do with FT8. Did you experience any new features to this mode?
Quick and easy right? Thanks for this. I just noticed you have an old Hallicrafters S-20R on the shelf. I have one too, a relic for sure, but a cool one.
My first real radio as a child was an S-20R a doting aunt gave me. I was fascinated by what I heard. I lost track of it during my college years when I became a Novice, but decided I wanted another a few years ago. I advertised in the Wanted section of Electric Radio and picked this one up. It doesn't work very well (supposedly it has been restored) but it's a cool conversation piece.
@@Gator_Bait_Motorsports I fixed it by reformatting the SD card (after saving its contents), adding the dat fil to the "clean" card, smooth firmware upgrade; replaced my "today" settings file onto the card, and loaded them without issue!
:( ... my 7300 is still in the box, waiting for my antenna to go up. I have no settings to save. Can I skip some steps in the firmware upgrade process?
I guess I waste a radio. I wanted one because of the computer in it. I have a 590 ken wood. and I would love some kine of yaesu I came off a 706 and all this new radio stuff is new to me. and I wonder what kind of card it wuse. is it like the one that I use in my camera.
I will have to watch this a couple times. my problem is I don't have a computer that would do it. there is not a window one computer in this house. I just dis like windows.