Unlocking/Hacking The Rigol DS2000A Series Scope - THE SHORT POST

[tv84]

v3.06

[staze]

Had a previously hacked 2072 hw 2.0 that I just updated to this firmware (3.06), kept all the options and bandwidth.

[listowka]

Hello,

I want to ask if I buy a DS2072A now ... I guess it will come with the latest version of the software.
https://www.rigolna.com/firmware/             -        I see that it is   03.06.00.00

Will it be possible to unlock as described above?

[tv84]

Will it be possible to unlock as described above?

Yes.

[listowka]

Thanks for the reply. I ordered .... I expect it to arrive :-)

p.s I want to thank you all. The oscilloscope has arrived ..... and it's already DS2302А :-).
I first uploaded the latest version of firmware. Then I did everything as described.

[thegentdev]

Hello everyone,

I bought a new ds2072a and I want to upgrade it. On this page, http://gotroot.ca/rigol/ should I go through the pdf and do the installation with these two files DS2000-03_06_00_00.7z , rigup-0.4.2.zip

[from_the_north]

Hi everyone

I have a DS2072A that does not have the hack

Ive read through and tried each hack listed here and have no luck

Ive updated the scope to firmware 00.03.06 hardware ver 2.0

I installed the latest NI software and Ultra Sigma links up with the scope just fine over USB cable

I could only find a copy of RigolBildschirmkopie from march 2016...but when I run that it does not see the scope over
the USB cable connection even thou Ultra Sigma and Ultra Scope see the Scope over the cable just fine

If anyone has any advice to give im all ears...

Thanks in advance

[from_the_north]

If anyone has any advice to give im all ears...

The 'RigolBildschirmkopie' only works with the WinUSB driver, which can be installed with e.g. Zadig. Otherwise you can use the LAN connection, which does not need a driver.

An archive of the website is here:
https://www.dreisiebner.at/temp/rigol-bildschirmkopie.zip

Peter

Thank you for the quick reply...after many hours of messing around....Success

I tried to install new usb drivers but it was still not seeing the scope....probbaly something I was doing wrong or missed

I gave up on trying to get it to connect over usb and hooked it up over the lan and bildschirmkopie saw it right away...was able to download the memory dump and save it in the same folder as rigup

ran rigup using windows CMD command line .......look at the rigup read me file it was very helpful..also another post on here with complete instructions was very helpful
using rigup

Thanks to all who posted I would not have been able to do this without the help of 10 other people who poated in this and other threads on this topic

[stewart.nz]

Hi folks, successfully upgraded my DS2072A to a DS2302A today, all options shown as "official version" and the BW -3dB point went from 110 MHz to 390 MHz. Tested with a calibrated Antritsu S412E GPS locked. Scope set to 50 Ω input. Winner winner 😊.

BUT I then went to upgrade the firmware from 03.00.SP1 to 03.06.00.00 from here... https://www.rigolna.com/firmware/ (no login and no serial number required) and it's stuck FFS! The progress bar is about 10% along its way and it's been like that for 2 hours! 😥

HELP; What to do?

best regards
Stewart

[stewart.nz]

It’s all good now; I eventually found a couple of ancient treads on EEVblog from 2013 which described the firmware update procedure using the help button for another model scope; so fingers crossed that it would work for this model and it did...
I put the same USB drive in the scope with the same 3.06 firmware file, powered on the scope while hitting the help button.
Only the CH1 light came on (which was a change from previous; YA! 😊) so I left it a while, eventually a whole lot more lights came on so I left it a while longer.
There was never anything displayed on the screen the whole time (well not that I saw anyways); which was concerning!
Anyway, eventually I powered it down and took out the USB drive and turned it back on; expecting for it to be still stuck!
But to my surprise and huge relief it actually booted and is working fine now; all options and frequency upgrade are reporting for duty 100%.
AND even better it’s reporting software version: 00.03.06. So, I am very happy about that. 😊
Screenshot of 300 MHz sinewave from Anritsu. The sinewave starts to get pretty ugly above 300 MHz TBH but 300 MHz it's all good given it was a 70 MHz scope a few days ago.
I'm so inspired by all of this I might just splash out on another RIGOL scope; a lot of things work better than my other "K" brand scope and it's a 1/4 of the price.

[ause]

Hi All, successfully upgraded my DS2072A to a DS2302A today, software 3.05, Hardware 2.0. Only real problem was finding the 'RigolBildschirmkopie', as I needed to get the 32Mb bin download, the other methods only seemed to get ~16Mb so the rigup complained of not finding any keys.

An archive of the website is here for'RigolBildschirmkopie' :
https://www.dreisiebner.at/temp/rigol-bildschirmkopie.zip

Many thanks to those who blazed this trail and it seems to work better on the menus as well, as they were way too sensitive before the upgrade.

[BTO]

Hi Guys,
Firstly my apologies for my long absence (A Lot of has happened, Family Issues, People passing away etc) Sometimes life just deals you a really crap hand that lasts for a very long time.
What do you do.

ANYWAY, I'M BACK! (And happy to help anyone who needs a hand through the upgrade process)

Moving forward...
I've read the entire topic over again to catch up and seen that some of you needed my help, Again apologies, but i'm glad you guys ended up upgrading your scope.

I think it's been 10 years since my DS2000A Purchase .

I WANT TO TRY AND UPGRADE MY SCOPE FROM MY SCOPES CURRENT VERSION 00.02.01 TO THE LATEST VERSION 03.06.00.00


I can confirm that
- My scope was unlocked 1 year ago with the full options and 300MHz Bandwidth Successfully (as per the first post on this topic).
- Currently my scope is on the following version (Same as 1 year ago)

                     SYSTEM INFORMATION
   -------------------------------------------------------
     Manufacturer:               Rigol Technologies
     Model:                          DS2302A
     Serial:                          DS2D160000000
     Software Version:          00.02.01
     Hardware Version:         2.0
   -------------------------------------------------------


I am currently planning on updating through 11 Versions to see if they all retain the software unlock options.
I plan to go through all the versions 1 by 1 (The idea is to the confirm that they can all be upgraded without losing the options)
NOTE : I do not know if you can upgrade straight from 00.02.01 to 03_06_00_00, I'm going through them incrementally 1 by 1.

I OBTAINED THE FILES FROM THIS URL.
https://www.gotroot.ca/rigol/[/color]]https://www.gotroot.ca/rigol/

I Plan to update through the following versions.
the name of the left is the file name , the name on the right is what actually appears in your scope after the update


       FILE NAME           -  ACTUAL VERSION NAME
DS2000-03_00_00_00 - 00.03.00
DS2000-03_00_01_03 - 00.03.00.SP1
DS2000-03_01_00_04 - 00.03.01
DS2000-03_03_01_00 - 00.03.03.SP1
DS2000-03_03_02_06 - 00.03.03.SP2
DS2000-03_04_01_00 - 00.03.04.SP1
DS2000-03_04_02_01 - 00.03.04.SP2
DS2000-03_05_00_01 - 00.03.05
DS2000-03_05_03_03 - 00.03.05.SP3
DS2000-03_05_04_00 - 00.03.05.SP4
DS2000-03_06_00_00 - 00.03.06

At the bottom of this post i will post the release notes for each version (if you're interested).
And i have attached instructions on how to factory default the scope (should you need it to downgrade)

HERE WE GO...

UPGRADE   1 - FROM 00.02.01       TO 00.03.00       - SUCCESSFULLY UPGRADED, ALL OPTIONS INTACT AND PRESERVED
UPGRADE   2 - FROM 00.03.00       TO 00.03.00.SP1 - SUCCESSFULLY UPGRADED, ALL OPTIONS INTACT AND PRESERVED
UPGRADE   3 - FROM 00.03.00.SP1TO 00.03.01        - SUCCESSFULLY UPGRADED, ALL OPTIONS INTACT AND PRESERVED
UPGRADE   4 - FROM 00.03.01       TO 00.03.03.SP1 - SUCCESSFULLY UPGRADED, ALL OPTIONS INTACT AND PRESERVED
UPGRADE   5 - FROM 00.03.03.SP1 TO 00.03.03.SP2 - SUCCESSFULLY UPGRADED, ALL OPTIONS INTACT AND PRESERVED
UPGRADE   6 - FROM 00.03.03.SP2 TO 00.03.04.SP1 - SUCCESSFULLY UPGRADED, ALL OPTIONS INTACT AND PRESERVED
UPGRADE   7 - FROM 00.03.04.SP1 TO 00.03.04.SP2 - SUCCESSFULLY UPGRADED, ALL OPTIONS INTACT AND PRESERVED
UPGRADE   8 - FROM 00.03.04.SP2 TO 00.03.05       - SUCCESSFULLY UPGRADED, ALL OPTIONS INTACT AND PRESERVED
UPGRADE   9 - FROM 00.03.05       TO 00.03.05.SP3 - SUCCESSFULLY UPGRADED, ALL OPTIONS INTACT AND PRESERVED
UPGRADE 10 - FROM 00.03.05.SP3 TO 00.03.05.SP4 - SUCCESSFULLY UPGRADED, ALL OPTIONS INTACT AND PRESERVED
UPGRADE 11 - FROM 00.03.05.SP4 TO 00.03.06       - SUCCESSFULLY UPGRADED, ALL OPTIONS INTACT AND PRESERVED

I have attached
- A Photo of the options After the first upgrade to version 00.03.00 to show they have been preserved
- A Photo of the upgrade screen at version 00.03.00

I have not bothered to upload each and every version picture , However

- A Photo of the last Upgrade , The Options list has been preserved at Version 00.03.06
- A Photo of the upgrade screen at Version 00.03.06


IN SUMMARY - So long as the scope is unlocked , it appears that you can upgrade through all the upgrade versions without losing the installed Options.
I didn't have any problems other than 1.

Initially i used a USB Stick that was 16GB and formatted FAT32,  this didn't detect.
I then changed to a USB Stick that was 8GB and formatted FAT32 and this worked without a problem

So Guys, Feel free to upgrade to the latest version

Lastly, of course i did a restart
and i did a system calibration

========================================================
                                    HERE ARE THE RELEASE NOTES
========================================================


[Supported Model]    All the MSO/DS2000A Series Digital Oscilloscopes
[Latest Revision Date]  2019/01/29

[Updated Contents]
--------------------

v00.03.06.00.00  2019/01/29
     - Fixed the bug of wave displaying after AUTO

[History]
-------------
v00.03.05.04.00  2018/04/02
     - Inproved the wave updating

v00.03.05.03.03  2017/06/26
     - Add new models of DS2102E and DS2202E
     - Fixed the error of some Traditional Chinese menu
     - Fixed the bug of EDU version
     - Fixed the bug of wave stop updating

v00.03.05.00.01  2016/07/20
     - Modified the naming rule for saving screen snap
     - Fixed the bug of the wave stop updating
     - Fixed the bug of Math expression

v00.03.04.02.01  2015/12/14
     - Fixed the sensitivity in EXT trigger mode

v00.03.04.01.00  2015/10/10
     - Supporting the EDU models for education market
     - Standard with 28/56M memory depth and advance triggers options in EDU
       models
     - Opening the interface for replacing the Logo by AE in EDU models

     - Fixed the scope freeze when changing the timebase in high-resolution mode

v00.03.03.02.06  2015/06/17
     - Added the persistence of XY wave
     - Added the French language menu
     - Supporting the license file installed by U DISK
     - Supporting the installation of bandle option
     - Optimized the SCPI command system
     - Supporting the remote access to decoded data

     - Fixed the bugs of waveform reading
     - Fixed image storage
     - Improve the stability the LAN interface communication

v00.03.03.01.00  2014/12/25
     - Only Setups data can be saved without UDISK inserted
     - Update the library of PictBridge
     - Update the library of LXI

     - Modified some SCPI commands
     - Fixed the bugs of picture data saving in the SINGLE trigger mode

v00.03.02.00.00  2014/09/03
     - Fixed the invalid measurement when the trigger status is Wait
 
v00.03.01.00.04  2014/08/22
     - The Ultra Station can't download the wave table data
     - Fixed the crash issue of using "AUTO" function in decode mode
 
v00.03.01.00.03  2014/04/15
     - Added phase and delay measure of different edge
     - Added the setting of power status
     - Upgrade LXI driver

     - Optimized the storage menu operation

v00.02.01.00.03  2013/11/04
     - Added the AUTO disable command
     - Added multi-language (German/Korean/Poland/Janpa etc.)

     - Fixed offset error when the amplitude of source is over 1.6v
     - Fixed the bugs in trigger when it is Pass/Fail mode
     - Fixed the bugs in waveform reading
     - Optimized the AUTO trigger mode in every horizontal scale
     - Fixed bugs in FFT operation

v00.01.01.00.02  2013/06/06
     - Added file name when printing screen
     - Optimized source setting for DS2000-S series

     - Fixed trigger delay in 500uV/div
     - Fixed trial license lost when do self-calibration

v00.01.00.00.03  2013/04/01
     - Added SCPI command for decoding data
     - Optimized the sampling rate in AC or Ext trigger
     - Optimized the speed of PNG file storage
     - Increased the sampling rate in ROLL mode
     - Support DS2000-S series

     - Fixed the cursor window error when change cursor mode
     - Switched the position of channel in XY mode