Performing the Owon SDS7102 Firmware Upgrade
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The attachments on this post came straight from the Owon Firmware upgrade installation instructions. The only thing I'm adding is some Chinglish translation to try to help explain what's meant and some comments on what's going on as I understand it.
Attachment #1 - Here you are asked to turn on the scope and connect it via USB cable to the PC. If the USB driver has been previously installed you could confirm it's status at this point by opening "Device Manager" (see my previous post). If that's not the case skip checking the driver and allow the installation software to try to install it automatically.
Next you need to launch the "Patch" software that was installed by the SDS_UpgradeX.X_Setup.exe extracted from the RAR file. This should yield the screen that you see on this attachment. I'm not sure at what point the software attempts to install the USB driver automatically, but I believe that either it has already been done at this point or it gets done when you click "Start".
OK, there is nothing else you can do at this screen, either click "Start" or wait for another rainy day to do it!
Attachment #2 - This screen should appear shortly after you click "Start". Note that the screen contains two text areas, the upper one has a single line and is used to tell the user what to do next (prompts). The lower one is a multiple text line scroll area that displays events as well as previous and current prompts. At this point the lower area should display the serial number of your scope. That means that the installation software was able to communicate via USB with the scope and retrieve the serial number from its memory. I'm not sure what happens if the USB driver isn't working, but I'm pretty certain that you won't see your scope's serial number!
OK, at this point the installation software is waiting for you to reboot the scope, that means to turn it OFF and then back ON. If you don't do this in a timely manner the installation software will timeout and give you an error. Otherwise it will detect the reboot and at some point it will enter the "USB download model". Don't get too impatient, if everything goes well you should see the screen of attachment #3.
Attachment #3 - This is just an information screen showing the upgrade process. The display will continue to update until you reach the end of the upgrade. At that point you should see the screen of Attachment #4.
Attachment #4 - Here the prompt text area indicates that the Firmware Upgrade has completed (patching is done), and that the installation software is attempting to reboot the scope. If for some reason the scope fails to reboot automatically at this point, the user should turn it OFF and then back ON.
Attachment #5 - After the scope finishes rebooting (or after the user turns it OFF and ON), the normal scope screen shown here is displayed. Only problem is that all the labels are in Chinese, but never fear, if you know what buttons to push the English labels will again magically appear!
Start out by pressing the "Utility" key, that will yield the screen of attachment #6.
Attachment #6 - Here we need to press H2, that's the key below the light blue label on the bottom. Pressing this key will cause the language selection list on the left of the screen to pop-up. Now use the Multipurpose knob to move the highlight from Chinese to English (or to the language you prefer) as illustrated on attachment #7.
Attachment #7 - That's it, you can read the labels again and your scope's firmware has been upgraded. If you want to see the new firmware version press H5 (About).