After sending my Radio back, I waited a while, found they dropped the
ball, and after telling Logitech Support the ball was in their court,
they replied:
-
I see the order and the approval for sending your replacement radio. The
replacement order dates December 13. Looks like we are out of stock for
this unit. I can order your unit to be replaced with a UE Smart Radio.
The hardware is the same except the Smart Radio includes a battery
package. Please note the firmware is different.-

After a few exchanges I called them and told them I didn't want a UE
Smart Radio.  I wanted a Radio that works with Server 7.5.x.  They
repeated that they could not send me such a Radio because they were no
longer made.  I asked for a refund and they arranged it.  I asked them
again:  Did I get a defective model or are newer Radios incapable of
downgrading the firmware?  The tech said I got a defective Radio and
that all devices except the UE downgrade the firmware.  I got
confirmation that my refund is on its way.  I must say that the Logitech
-phone- support was very good.

Then I turned around and bought another Radio from Amazon.  I received
it today and configured it successfully with these steps:
1. I disconnected my Internet connection from my router
2. I connected the new Radio to the wireless
3. It tried to connect to mysqueezebox.com and failed because of step
1.
4. I connected the Radio to my server, and it downloaded the firmware
(YES!), installed it and rebooted.
5. Once again it tried and failed to connect to mysqueezeserver.com
6. I tested the Radio and it worked fine
7. I reconnected my router to the Internet, restarted the Radio and it
still works

Perhaps steps 1 & 7 above are not necessary, but I suspect that my
troubles with my "defective" Radio happened because I signed in to
mysqueezebox.com before attempting to downgrade the firmware, and I know
it downloaded -something- and rebooted at that time. Although Logitech
Support said otherwise, I wonder if the download from mysqueezebox.com
installed some type of UE irreversible setting which prevented the
downgrade.

Regardless, I now have a working Radio and can enjoy awesome music
classic Squeeze devices.


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