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@SteffenLav SteffenLav released this 23 Aug 20:25
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v1.9.3
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Updating is one decision now

The Tab5 fetches new releases quietly in the background and asks you once, when it's ready. Tap the bottom bar and you get a window in the middle of the screen with two buttons: Restart now or Later.

No long-press any more, and no cryptic line at the bottom trying to explain itself in twenty characters. While an update waits for you the bar breathes gently; choose Later and it goes quiet and stays out of your way. Tap it again whenever you're ready.

If you'd rather it didn't download by itself, turn it off under Settings → Network → Download updates automatically. Each update is about 3.3 MB, which matters if you're on a phone hotspot in a field. Nothing is ever installed without you asking — downloading and restarting are separate, and only the restart changes anything.

The spectrum, waterfall and FT8 decoding now keep running while an update downloads. Before, everything stopped until it finished.

Also in this release

  • TXCQ ANY / EVEN / ODD on the web FT8 page — choose which 15-second slot your CQ goes out in, from the browser. It's the same setting as the button on the Tab5, so the two always agree. (Randy N4OPI)
  • SSB tuning snaps to 500 Hz instead of 250. Stations that stray off an integer kHz sit at 0.5, so this lands on the ones that exist and gives you half as many stops to drag through. (Dave KX3DX)
  • The band-plan strip is much easier to hit. It's a thin strip between the waterfall and the bottom bar and was easy to miss; its touch area now reaches up into the waterfall while it still looks the same.
  • Audio is no longer dropped while a log upload is running. Uploading to QRZ, eQSL or LoTW quietly interrupted the audio feed, which could cost you FT8 decodes at the time.
  • Thanks to Don N2VGU, whose report on the old update wording is why the whole flow changed rather than just the sentence.

Installing

Already on v1.9.2? Your Tab5 will offer this update by itself — tap the bottom bar.

Otherwise download QMX-Panadapter-flasher-v1.9.3.zip below and run flash.bat (Windows) or flash.command (macOS/Linux). Your settings, QSO log, LoTW certificate and memory channels are untouched.

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