YaesuSystemFusion: New firmware update for FT2DR/DE available

I don't think they fixed anything that folks have been reporting. Here are the issues I reported in August - apparently, none were addressed in the new update. The text in red is the Yaesu rep's response back in August. The blue text are my notes after installing the firmware updates:

This one is very annoying - probably the most annoying of all. Even though APRS is set to mute, the audio of the transmitted status beacon comes through the speaker. It can be controlled with the volume control, but doing so lowers the volume of the Band A frequency. So essentially, if I want to quietly monitor my local repeater, I have to deal with listening to an annoying packet from the FT2DR that I should not have to hear. Others have commented on this as well. This has been confirmed and reported to the engineers for study.

No change. Audio of the transmitted beacon comes through the speaker at the level that the volume control is set to.

A/a (shift key) on the virtual keyboards does not work. If they couldn’t get it working, they should remove it. This has been confirmed and reported to the engineers for study.

No change. A/a shift key still does not function.

  
The WX Alert feature does not appear to function. The frequency is properly set, but it would not engage during the weekly Wednesday test this week, nor during another alert on Thursday. The weather alert does function, however the weather alert feature needs to be turned on and the radio in scan mode (either VFO or memory scan) to function.

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The charging status bar resets if the radio is turned on and then off again no matter how far along it was in the charge cycle. This has been confirmed and reported to the engineers for study.

No change. Charging bar still resets to start even if there is a half charge on the batteries.

The LED does not light when charging. This is annoying as it is a visual indicator that the charging is taking place and a change of color when it is complete. Since the screen is not lit when the unit is off and charging, viewing the display is inconvenient. Also, when the charging is complete, the screen goes blank which to me, from a usability perspective, does not tell me that charging is complete. This is a real problem, since if I turn on the radio to see if it is charged and turn it off again, it appears that the charging did not take place and its starting up as per my previous bug report. This is a misprint in the manual, when charging the LED will not light. Current production radios have been like this since 2013 to be in compliance with the California Energy Commission guidelines.

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There appears to be no indicator on the panel of an incoming message. There should be. Someone mentioned that the LED flashes, but between local repeater activity and APRS the LED is flashing often and the screen is the best place to put a message indicator - again, like the FTM-400DR has.

Still no indicator that a message is waiting.