Any electronic device made today in all probability has firmware that is buggy. As a matter of fact I will tell you it is all buggy. Depending on your use, or lack of use of a particular feature you may not ever notice the bugs....yet for another individual he will use the feature that is buggy and he gets really ticked. Some bugs will affect everyone. My advice on sonar units is if your unit is working to your liking leave it alone. The new firmware I can guarantee you will be buggy too. It may fix a known bug in the unit but you have now added more bugs which may....or may not show up in use depending how you use the unit. Plus when you update the firmware there is a chance you could "brick" your unit.......meaning it is the same as a brick...just a piece of concrete...because it will never work again. If you want to upgrade the unit I suggest keeping a copy of the old firmware in case the new firmware makes the unit worse than before....then if you want you can go back to the old version. I am no guru on this but was in the missile/radar field for 38 years. In 1980 I had to learn to program in machine language.....I hated it. But it is the basis for all software. No one writes code in machine language anymore as code is written in much higher languages now but then is eventually translated back to machine language for the unit to use. Software is our friend...but it is also our enemy. When a sonar unit is considered obsolete by the company that made it no matter how many bugs are left in that unit there will be no more updates. My HB 899 became obsolete in less than 2 years. I installed latest update but it was more buggy than the update before it...so I put the next to last version back in it. I hope I haven't confused you more...LOL.
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