Armel [F4HWN] Talks About the limitations of the Quansheng radios with Version 2 installed and how they can't be upgraded with new firmware. Watch at the following link. Video is in French. I would have embedded it here, but watching the video on other sites has been disabled by the video owner for some reason. If you don't understand French, the translate function on YouTube works well at subtitling [CC] this video. So basically, if you are wanting to buy a Quansheng K5 / K6 or UV 5R Plus to upgrade with modded firmware like IJV, F4HWN or Egzumer, do not buy a version 2 model radio. The microcontroller is different. It went from V1: MCU DP32G030 to the new V2: PY32F030.
There is also a version 3 available now which I believe is also OK to install firmware on. So if buying to flash, get either V1 or V3. If you're not bothered about upgrading, buy any version you want. Some rumours say that Quansheng have adding this unpopular feature with V2's because some people have been returning their radios that are V1 because they bricked [broke] them trying to flash them and the return rate was high. I'm not sure this is true. I think its just someone's opinion to be honest. There's never been a problem before with this, not even when the modding of these radios, which has now been going on for years was at its absolute peak. So who knows.
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