Hantek MSO5102D no USB drive recognized - Page 1
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author: dvdboost
author_rank: Newbie
timestamp: March 11, 2025, 03:22:34 am
content: Hello guys,Long time not been here and I couldn't get my old account - I believe I used an email which was closed by provider years ago and I really cannot get any known info from this siteAnyway, my name is Pavel V. ... not a newbie in electronics but I realize this is my first post under this profile :-)I have an old Hantek oscilloscope model MSO5102D.When I say old - I really mean it - I obtained it in 2014 if I remember good and until now it was not used at all.Someone will probably wonder why such an equipment was not used but the reason is pretty simple - it was just not necessary as several others were available.Anyway, I just needed to use this device recently and I found out that several things were not functioning properly:- first I was trying to capture about 20-30 screenshots from it, never trying this function before in this particular device. The USB was recognized and each time I click "Save on USB" it gave a proper orange colored message that the image was saved. What a surprise when I checked later the USB in a PC and there was absolutely nothing saved on this USB drive.- the second boot of the scope I instantly found out that the time stamp I entered on my previous boot was gone and the setup was back to 2009 or something ... The other surprise was that trying the same USB which I decided to format differently on the PC was no longer recognized when plugged in. I tried all possible USB formats (default, ...32, NTFS, etc) with no success. Also many other USB's from different "known good" brands, both new and differently custom formated ... no success on this oscilloscope anymore!Here is the system info of my device. I hope someone would properly decode these records because even these more than 120 pages in some threads about these devices from Hantek, I couldn't find any place which describes how to decode what HW version I have, what is the SN of my device, SW etc ...I need to fix this issue with the USB because I am into a project where I am testing a complex HW and many images need to be created.Best regardsPV

author: dvdboost
author_rank: Newbie
timestamp: March 11, 2025, 03:41:58 am
content: Another reason ...I also would like to upgrade the SW (FW) of the scope but need to do a backup ...I read the entireTinhead'shttps://www.eevblog.com/forum/testgear/hantek-tekway-dso-hack-get-200mhz-bw-for-free/...Unfortunately the procedure is involving using the USB device with a special created by the author upgrade script ... well, I cannot use the USB at all (my main problem from this thread).I was trying to find a solution to create a backup using the UART ... maybe I just didn't find it. Please point me to it if there is one!Not sure if and how the uC is locked/not locked to be able to use a JTAG port instead - I do have several JTAG devices (such as uLink II/Pro from Keil) ... I prefer not to discover already discovered things.Best regardsPV

author: dvdboost
author_rank: Newbie
timestamp: March 12, 2025, 03:02:48 am
content: Hope that @tinhead is checking the forums sometimes ...My wild guess is that he is the undoubted guru regarding Hantek series oscilloscopes.I based this guess on the amount of information he saved in his database, and the time he spent to reverse engineer these schematics and document them so well using Altium.Amazing effort !Thank you tinhead!Pavel

author: Aldo22
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 12, 2025, 11:02:36 am
content: I have no idea about the MSO5102D, but I can tell you what works with the DSO2000.- Try a USB drive of 4GB or less.- Try formatting the USB drive under Linux if necessary (W95 FAT32 (LBA)), or leave it as supplied. Do not format it under windows.- Disconnect the rear USB port to use the front port for the USB drive.

author: dvdboost
author_rank: Newbie
timestamp: March 12, 2025, 09:36:34 pm
content: Quote from: Aldo22 on March 12, 2025, 11:02:36 amThank you for reply Aldo22!During the years of working with all kind of digital equipment I've learned that incompatibilities exists between devices even all these maybe comply with same standards.Having this experience since early DOS-days, thru the years, I've build huge storage of different valuable devices which I do use from time to time when sh.. happen.These are all kind of interface cards, memory modules of different kind and manufacturers, Hard-drives in any interface, motherboards of known good chipsets with different processors and interfaces of all kind. I also have USB drives of all kinds since the USB became a standard at all.I do agree with you that many times devices behaves unpredictable- I said this in my first post, maybe it was not so clear - I did try ALL kind of combinations between size/manufacturer/format USB drives from 64MB up to 16GB, formated using Linux, Windows and OSX.Problem is that the oscilloscope did not want to recognize any kind of the USB drives, even the first one, which was initially recognized did not work on second attempt even prior re-formating it differently!it is definetely the MSO5102D which is the problem!Another thing, which I did not make so clear: the USB devices ARE POWERED and even kind of RECOGNIZED by the device - they do behave the same way as when connecting them to a PC - they indicated by their LED indicators that they are read. But the SW of the MSO5102D does not indicate this in any way. The "Diskette" logo on the left upper corner of the screen does remain DIMMED. I was actually thinking - OK, the LED indicated USB was recognized, I don't care the SW does not indicate the USB existence, so I press the "Save to USB" button ... but then SW clearly gives me the ERROR message!The back USB connector is not connected to a computer either ...

author: dvdboost
author_rank: Newbie
timestamp: March 12, 2025, 10:04:00 pm
content: I decided I will update the MSO5102D from the UART port ... I will forget about backup since I cannot get any help to do it the known way from the USB.I guess I have not so much to loose as tinhead explained that even bricked devices have been revived ...But I still have the question about detecting the HW I have - I am not sure which post to relate my device to ... is my device from these with SN <15000?I think my serial number is 009576, produced in 2012 ...Is there anyone who can confirm this?If this is correct - is it only me that I cannot find any firmware related to my device?The only 3 files downloadable from tinhead's database, related to MSO5102D are PC-based SW, driver and a PDF manual.I also find some different posts (and videos in YT) which state that ALL DSO5000 series share same firmware ... REALLY?is my MSO device also a DSO?