How to Upgrade ICOM Next Firmware

Before starting our topic “How to Upgrade ICOM Next Firmware?”, let’s have an overview of one user’s feedback: when powered up the unit, immediately the COMM LED light RED !  Other LEDs light blue. When connected the unit to my laptop with ISTA D v4.24, LAN LED lights blue and IToolRadar recognized the unit. But ISTA does not connect to the ICOM”.

Look at the screenshot of error:

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Possible reason and solution:

Need to update your ICOM Next firmware.. yours is on v100. latest is v141

The method to update ICOM next firmware:

By obdii365.com engineer: Open “vx manager” to click on “Firmware upgrade”.

Browse http://www.vxdiag.net/

Click on “Download”

Click on “VX Manager”.

Run VX Manager.exe to setup

Click on [Next]

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Select Components.

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Installing…

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Complete the VX Manager Setup Wizard.

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Connection ICOM NEXT device and run VX Manager, and you will have the information of device in “Device Manager”.

Click on “Firmware” to upgrade.

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