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Thanks for buying your HackRF+PortaPack device. That is what I would say if I was actually the one selling them as the intro line for the documentation, but I am not. I am just trying to document the great work of a lot of people involved in this project, listed here.

The following documentation is split in two parts. The User manual intends to emulate a typical instruction manual for the end user, while the Developer manual documents all the apis available in order to write custom apps.

Enjoy!

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User FAQ:

• Q: My device never boot/ white screen/ black screen after upgrade firmware/ reset/ coin battery dead/ took out sdcard.

  A: Check Won't boot and Config Menu

• Q: Something is abnormal/ crashed/ not working/ behaving unexpected/ Guru Meditation

  A: Try Completely reset, if not helps, try Updating the Xilinx CPLD on hackrf board, if still not helps, report an issue on GitHub.

• Q: no splash screen displayed/No time & date displayed/ touchscreen not working/ status bar icon disappeared/ backlight timeout abnormal/ encoder dial abnormal

  A: It's an option in settings, go check settings.

• Q: It says xxx missing/ can't find xxx/ xxx read error/ xxx is outdated or you can't see xxx

  A: Make sure you correctly put the sdcard contents matching your firmware version.

• Q: There's an unexpected spike on my waterfall/ IQ/ spectrum

  A: It's either a DC offset or noise from power. For noise you can try to use inner battery to reduce. For DC offset you can do nothing with it.

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