Successful repair of  Owon SDS5032E oscilloscope - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / repair

author: Arek_R
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: March 30, 2018, 06:35:24 pm
content: Hello everyone, I'm new here and I decided to post this as it can help a lot of people with their oscilloscope as it seems to be a common manufacturing issue which has no official solution as this chinese company doesn't care about their customers.I got mine from ebay as faulty(customer return), once I received it, it was in perfect physical condition, so description was 100% true.What was wrong, unit boots up, display turns on with "welcome image", dimms it slightly, then goes black and repeats boot sequence over and over.Of course decided to crack it open, after hours of measuring and inspecting, I couldn't find any hardware issue, conclusion - software issue.This issue was basically the same as Dave's Siglent function generator(EEVblog2 "Siglent Signal Generator FAIL") which he then later repaired by uploading new firmware with help from siglent in next video "Siglent Signal Generator Fix"So I knew what to do, was extremly sure that I have to do same thing, so I rushed to Owon's website and sent them an email where I very nicely asked to help me with this, of course they didn't...No way to fix it without their software and firmware.Month later decided to google this again, and then I found video where some guy was going to review this device and had same problem, he contacted Owon and got all necessary files, and he shared them!:You can see the issue at his vid:https://youtu.be/AIiIOXBt0M0?t=490So I downloaded these files from his link, connected scope to my PC, installed drivers, run the software, did what it said, andIT WORKS!!!Here are these files:https://drive.google.com/open?id=14li4fleK4quQmkfdSUdyOzy2bOYdJrJHBig thanks to Aviprink from YouTube, if not him it would never be fixed!

author: dalmatian
author_rank: Newbie
timestamp: September 25, 2018, 02:27:50 pm
content: Hi, could you share some detail on how to use the patch? I tried the patch but did not work. At first I thought it might be good to update to the latest firmware, because I think I found some bugs with the SCPI commands. After updating using the patch until the second step, the oscilloscope just keeps restarting so it becomes unusable. I am wondering if I need to tinker with the ini or xml files in the patch. Thanks

author: Arek_R
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: November 10, 2018, 05:15:04 pm
content: Wait, you mean that your oscilloscope was working and after using this patch program it doesnt?

author: Aviprink
author_rank: Newbie
timestamp: November 20, 2021, 09:47:25 am
content: Hi, oscilloscope are working after patch.. please ensure to complete all stepsThank you.Repair video link :-https://youtu.be/bH9mGzSkhpEReview or Problem :-https://youtu.be/AIiIOXBt0M0

author: sail-enthusiast
author_rank: Newbie
timestamp: January 06, 2022, 12:24:37 am
content: HiI recently purchased a used Owon SDS5032E scope.The existing firmware is version 2.1, so I thought it would be good to update it.I sent Owon the serial number of the scope.They indicated that there was no new version of the firmware for this version of the hardware.So it looks like a good idea to check with Owon before you apply any firmware patches.

author: tntiago
author_rank: Newbie
timestamp: November 02, 2023, 09:04:08 pm
content: Does anyone have the complete Firmware for this oscilloscope?In this link is how to download the firmware from the oscilloscope using OpenOCD (same process like SDS5032E )https://blog.weinigel.se/2016/05/06/sds7102-hacking-2.html