Did you Successfully Upgrade your firmware?
Did you Successfully Upgrade your firmware? | |
| Tatum Ansaldo 04.11.2010 |
Originally Posted by Ponke
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| Leeanna Ayla 04.11.2010 |
Originally Posted by Ponke
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| Freeda Chinnis 04.11.2010 | So the chip won't stay inside after upgrading? Silly question |
| Tatum Ansaldo 03.11.2010 | you can use any VCI upgrade chip, they're all the same. |
| Freeda Chinnis 03.11.2010 | My only question is that can I use my friends upgrade kit? Thanks in advance! |
| Chu Sukalski 29.10.2010 | Upgraded successful with a standard serial-cable (vivanco bought at mediamarkt in germany) and windows xp prof sp2. everything goes fine. thanks! |
| Leeanna Ayla 14.10.2010 |
Originally Posted by dnbaddict
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| Fredia Sullens 14.10.2010 | I fixed it! Stange things happen sometimes... Photojojo: I tried your recommendation with the advancedsetup. Changed the delay to 1000 - still the same problem. Then I played with some values, increasing and decreasing incrementally - for almost half an hour. But, unfortunately to no avail. Then I noticed that the green message (which I always saw only for a tenth of a second every time) does not say "upgrade successful", but instead: "connection successful". Briefly after, Renasas just crashed each and every time. Out of pure desparation I went for one more try, choosing COM3 (although I knew that I was on COM1 and COM3 could not possibly work since it is used by Bluetooth on my machine). As expected, the connection wasn't successful. Still eager to succeed, I switched it back to COM1 and...it worked. Mysteriously. I can only speculate: maybe the software needed one "complete" (yet not successful) run via COM3 to end one run regularly (without abnormal termination). Then, the system was apparently ready to grant me a successful run with COM1. w00t! And thanks both of you for the support. |
| Leeanna Ayla 14.10.2010 | Did you make the changes suggested in the advancedsetup.exe? I had crashing problems on mine and that's what seemed to fix it. |
| Fredia Sullens 14.10.2010 | Agreed fullenglishpint, I also have the feeling that this abnormal behaviour of the flash utility is a sign of an incomplete installation of the new firmware. I'm asking myself however why the internal routines and the parsed output of the utility announce a successful "upgrade complete" message (in green), and one tenth of a second later cause Renesas to terminate itself. Is there any finalization of the flashing done by the utility after official completion which I am missing? Could I experiment with different settings within the utility? All opinions are more than welcome, thx! |
| Tatum Ansaldo 14.10.2010 |
Originally Posted by dnbaddict
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| Fredia Sullens 13.10.2010 | Guys, I own a black VCI-100, standard model shipped by Vestax. So no SE, and no FW1.3 installed. I guess it was 1.2 or even 1.1 (I never checked). Now I got my firmware upgrade kit, a serial-serial cable and the 1.4 FW. After following the video instructions (the cable harness is really a tough one!!), everything worked fine on my XP SP3 machine. Through COM1, the 1.4 FW was written correctly, but after the success message in the end the software terminated itself. Is this normal behaviour? The current status is that my VCI does not power up anymore. Suggestions, anyone? I found that another user faced a similar problem:
Originally Posted by allystrachan
Originally Posted by allystrachan
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| Laronda Hemmen 10.10.2010 | Was finally successful after a lot of trouble with a cheap USB to serial cable based on the Prolific chipset and driver. Used a mate's desktop running WinXP SP3, hooked the VCI up with a standard serial cable instead, and the flashing process zipped through on the default port (COM1)! As serial ports aren't supposed to be hot plug technology (I believe), I restarted the computer after doing the physical connections. Not sure if it was needed though. Some comments have noted that turning the VCI on into boot mode is difficult if the buttons or jog wheels are in contact with something. I realised that if you place the top part of the VCI on top on the bottom plate like this: (___________________) <- top plate, upside down and PCBs facing up [__________________] <- bottom plate The buttons and jog wheels are suspended perfectly! Turning the sensitivity knobs way down might help too, just in case. Hope that helps |
| Tatum Ansaldo 09.10.2010 |
Originally Posted by DJSuizo
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| Benton Cicinelli 09.10.2010 | The Vestax VCI-100 works with Windows 7 right? As in.. I can upgrade it from 1.3 to 1.4 via windows 7 right? I hear all you guys talking about XP! |
| Treasa Maffucci 07.10.2010 | just flashed 2 vci's to 1.4. it was a bit of a journey but well worth it. i dusted off the old pc laptop, turned it on and it wasnt lookin too good, so i gave it a fresh install of XP. next i try to download the flash kit, but of course, i only have winXP sp2, and need the sp3. so i dl the sp3 upgrade, and finally get to my first attempt. for the first flash i was getting multiple errors, but they mostly turned out to be my fault (didnt install the serial cable drivers, then forgot to power on the vci the second time, had to change the delay rate, etc etc). after about an hour i finally get the thing to flash... second vci took about 5 minutes now to fix my mappings.... but thats gonna have to wait until tomorrow. but until then.. all i can say is.... DISCOOOOO MODE!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
| Sanjuana Newburn 06.10.2010 | All is good. Used a serial to USB converter cable and my PC running XP SP3, no probs upgrading the firmware, but I do agree with Djproben and TheCurse. That cable harness was a evening mare to get off. Took me 20 mins to get that badboy outa there! Luvin the new firmware, jolly good job DaveX and DJTT. Respect. |
| Leeanna Ayla 03.10.2010 |
Originally Posted by Usualplayer
http://ranking s.myshopify.com/pages/Contact EDIT: The products page says they'll have more next week. |
| Odilia Gatica 03.10.2010 | I updated with no problems at all, i just followed the simple instructions. I use win7 64 bit.The cable inside the VCI was a bit hard to get off though i must admit. I didn't even know my new PC had a serial port until now, and i had to dig around for an old serial cable, but i found one in the end hehee |
| Arnoldo Amlong 01.10.2010 | When you will you be getting more stock of the connector chips |
| Danae Dumler 27.09.2010 |
Originally Posted by TheCurse
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| Katherin Kopchick 26.09.2010 | Hey, used a standart serial cable and connected it with the serial port no.1 on the computer. Followed the steps in the video. Only thing to notice is after the page on which you should leave everything as it is, another page appeared on which i also left everything as it was, which than worked fine for me. But i didnt see that page in the youtube video where you went through all the steps. Another "probem" was to pull off the cable to connect the firmware updater. that thing was really hard to pull off. I guess i was close to break it.. Good work though! Cheers |
| Gilma Marchini 25.09.2010 | Successful. Will admit that using a serial is a pain in the butt... It took a few tries to get the app to connect correctly, but other than that it went well. Will admit that you guys cleaned up well on the Arcade mod. |
| Danae Dumler 25.09.2010 | Finally successful in upgrading to 1.4. This took the better part of two days. Honestly the most frustrating part was dealing with Windows. I'm a Mac guy and don't have a windows machine; finally got windows installed on the mac via parallels. I don't know how you windows people deal with that os lol... even running it in a separate window it managed to be annoying as hell ... Anyway here are some of the problems I had: - I had an old Keyspan Serial/USB adapter. It was broken. Took a couple hours of fiddling to figure that one out. Found a cheap Chinese one for $11 and it worked though I had a lot of trouble. The main thing I got stuck on was a timeout error 15005 -- the fix on this page http://www.djranking s.com/community /sho...?t=872&page=10 from alex.ketch solved it, so glory be! - Note if you've put on an overlay you might have to cut around the screws depending how perfectly it fit. I had a hard time getting a couple screws out until I realized they were being held down by a tiny bit of the overlay, I used an exacto knife to cut around it. - the right jog wheel was messed up after I put everything back together. Both pitch bend and scratch were happening at the same time, and the effects buttons slice/echo didn't work at all because the jog wheel was still moving the track around. I had to get a tiny flat screwdriver and mess with the touch sensor level on the back of the unit; that fixed it perfectly. - the "key" knob no longer works. This sucks because I like using that knob... hoping this is just a problem in the mapping as the filter knobs work fine, but shift+filter no longer adjusts the key appropriately. It sounds like others have this problem too? Otherwise, I'm good to go. USB-serial adapter cords are a pain in the ass but they will work with the right coaxing. If someone develops a Mac version of the flash program I'll be much happier next time I have to flash |
| Laquita Coduto 24.09.2010 | Just did the upgrade to firmware 1.4. Pretty painless. The shift + filter = key bug is present for me with the specs listed below. Otherwise....brilliant. post a fix if you have one! Thanks JT |
| Lauretta Ehrhorn 24.09.2010 | Borrowed a mates PC and flashed with no problems. Brilliant job DaveX and DJTT. Forever in your debt. |
| Peg Yant 13.09.2010 | i was using windows vista at mines with a usb- serial. but that wasnt working... so i went to my mates who has windows XP with a serial-serial. just tried again today, re installed renesas, went through the procedure as described and it still crashed. im now believeing that maybe its my mates computer, because its pretty old and full of programmes and random crap. im guessing this would be a reason for renesas to crash after saying 'process complete'? im going to email the IT department in work today and see if they will let me try it in work. i'd just do it without letting them know but i need to get renesas installed on a comp and dont get admin rights in work. boo! |
| Janyce Henningson 12.09.2010 | What operating system you using? |
| Peg Yant 11.09.2010 | http://www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?ModuleNo=97735 < thats the cable i used the second time. seemed like the cable was fine because it ran through the flash... just as soon as it completed it said renesas had a problem and shut down. would the cable cause that? |
| Leeanna Ayla 11.09.2010 | I believe you need to try a different cable. |
| Peg Yant 11.09.2010 | another failure on my part here.anyone got any advice? firstly tried usb-serial with time delay, in all different usb ports and no luck, i was either gettign timeouts or did not boot errors. so i sacked that idea, went and got a serial-serial and used a friends computer. when i ran renesas it seemed to work.... went through the process, said process complete in green writing (or something like that) and then a pop up came up from windows saying 'renesas encountered a problem etc etc, send report, dont send report' (the one that comes up normally when a programme is not responding) so i tried to run it again.. same thing happened. put it back together to see if the firmware worked and the jog were red, but the toggle button was doing nothing. took it apart... ran the programme again and it dont the same. 'upgrade complete' 'renesas encountered a problem' and the programme closed. now when i turn the vci on there no power to it at all. does anyone have any advice that i can try next? |
| Janyce Henningson 08.09.2010 | Cool thanks |
| Leeanna Ayla 08.09.2010 |
Originally Posted by Nicky H
http://www.djranking s.com/2010/08/1...ers-jog-wheel/ I'm also currently working on one that is more detailed on the jogwheels |
| Janyce Henningson 08.09.2010 |
Originally Posted by Karlos Santos
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| Leeanna Ayla 08.09.2010 |
Originally Posted by temptension
Follow this guide http://www.djranking s.com/2008/08/1...-100-firmware/ These community threads will help http://www.djranking s.com/community /showthread.php?t=871 http://www.djranking s.com/community /showthread.php?t=846 |
| Delmy Delatorres 08.09.2010 | I 've got a simple question. I have firmware 1.1 and really want to upgrade to ver.1.3 (using ordinary VCI 100 - silver edition) Is your upgrade kit for 25 $ can help me make a jump from 1.1 to 1.3? Thanx |
| Tatum Ansaldo 11.08.2010 | Got my firmware upgrade and overlay today, took a while but got 1.3 installed and it's so good to have all the extra functions, even the fabled 4th effect button! Looks sweet with the overlay too Thanks to Alex.Ketch for your post, I had all the same issues and it saved me a lot of time. Now I'm the proud owner of a VCi-100 SE! |
| nayit ruiz jaramillo 10.08.2010 | Finally updated to FW 1.3 this week after having the kit for about a year (lazy). Used the same Maplins USB-Serial cable and it worked first time no issues. Checked the COM Port in Device Manager and that was it. Also took my jogwheels to pieces and cleaned them. All with the DJTTs tutorial videos... Cheers Guys. |
| Bailey Fergurson 01.08.2010 | Windows 7 - USB to Serial Port (Bought from Maplins |
| Kasi Kiriakos 24.07.2010 | I used win xp sp2 and the unbranded "USB Serial Converter" from Maplin electronics UK. http://www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?ModuleNo=29968 The one i bought in-store had blue connectors with a silver cable. After installing the drivers from the disk provided then restarting, it was still showing a driver error, so i went into device manager and reinstalled the driver from there, using the provided cd and it worked fine. It defaulted to com5 (i checked first in device manager), but i had to restart Renesas in order for it to show in the drop down. Once that was ok, and i very carefully followed all the video steps, it worked perfectly 1st time! After testing, all the faderfx work propperly now and it is a dream to use. There is the odd bug but thats a mapping thing. Flash Development Toolkit and flash programming components are provided without support OS: Windows XP [Admin] FCF Settings Applied: H8/3052F, (C:\Program Files\Renesas\FDT4.05\kernels\ProtB\3052\Renesas\1 _2_00\) FDT API initialised: version 4, 05, 00, 008 FCF Settings Applied: H8/3052F, (C:\Program Files\Renesas\FDT4.05\kernels\ProtB\3052\Renesas\1 _2_00\) Clock Frequency (External) = 24.0000MHz, Clock Mode = 0, CKM = 1, and CKP = N/A Connecting to device 'H8/3052F' on 'COM5' Configuration: 'BOOT Mode' connection - using emulated interface Opening port 'COM5' ... Loading Comms DLL Loaded Comms DLL Initiating BOOT SCI sequence Attempting 9600 Received immediate response from device: 0xAA Using micro-Kernel : 'C:\Program Files\Renesas\FDT4.05\kernels\ProtB\3052\Renesas\1 _2_00\uGen3052.cde' Downloading and verifying micro kernel... Device is erasing... Erase Timeout value set to 21 seconds Erase Successful micro-Kernel download successful Sending inquiry for getting line size Buffer size has been set to default (128 bytes) Sending selection of device command Selection of Device - Device selected, code 0302 Sending selection of clock mode Sending selection of clock mode Selection of Clock Mode - Clock selected, code 0 Changing baud rate to 38400 bps Set baud rate value = 38400 Downloading main kernel 'C:\Program Files\Renesas\FDT4.05\kernels\ProtB\3052\Renesas\1 _2_00\Genm3052.cde' Main kernel download complete... Connection complete Processing file :"C:\VCI-100SE_1.3_Firmware.mot" Operation on User Flash Downloaded the operation module Writing image to device... [0x00000000 - 0x000000FF] Writing image to device... [0x00000200 - 0x0000647F] Writing image to device... [0x00008000 - 0x0000807F] Writing image to device... [0x00009000 - 0x0000907F] Writing image to device... [0x00009080 - 0x0000917F] Writing image to device... [0x00009180 - 0x00009AFF] Data programmed at the following positions: 0x00000000 - 0x000000FF Length : 0x00000100 0x00000200 - 0x0000647F Length : 0x00006280 0x00008000 - 0x0000807F Length : 0x00000080 0x00009000 - 0x0000907F Length : 0x00000080 0x00009080 - 0x0000917F Length : 0x00000100 0x00009180 - 0x00009AFF Length : 0x00000980 27.75 K programmed in 36 seconds Image written to device Disconnecting Disconnected |
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