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Experience in upgrading CPU 1214C V3.0 to V4.0

Created by: Zvonko1952 at: 6/24/2016 11:53 PM (8 Replies)

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6/24/2016 11:53 PM	Rate (0)
Zvonko1952 Posts: 5 Rating: (0)	Does anybody have ( positive) experience in upgrading CPU 1214C V3.0 to V4.0? Thanks Zvonimir Stojanovich ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Split from TIA V13 does not support cpu 1214c v3.0.2 firmware version.
Zvonko1952 Posts: 5 Rating: (0)	Last edited by: Min_Moderator at: 6/27/2016 9:31:54 AM New subject after splitting
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6/25/2016 5:35 AM	Rate (0)
grrrrrroooo Platinum Member Joined: 3/16/2015 Last visit: 10/10/2021 Posts: 1250 Rating: (174)	Upgrading V3.x to 4.x is not possible.

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6/25/2016 12:14 PM	Rate (0)
William_B Posts: 5225 Rating: (1203)	Dear friend Kal.A.... careful with you answer. Kal.A Upgrading V3.x to 4.x is not possible. It is depending what was asked by the question - (a) Updating firmware in the physical PLC from FW3 to FW4 - OR - (b) Taking a project that has been developed for FW3.x and change the software to work for FW4.0 or FW4.1 In case of (a) - - - totally correct. In case of (b) - - - this is possible. Dear Zvonko1952, Zvonko1952 Does anybody have ( positive) experience in upgrading CPU 1214C V3.0 to V4.0? I have upgraded with success a software program developed for FW3.0 to be able to work on FW4.1. What made it tricky is that there were HSC and Motion Control that required upgrading too. Please come back and explain in more detail what your problems are and let us see if our community can help you through it. Screen captures and explanation of the symptoms / error messages will be most helpful to us. Hear from you again (?) w
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6/27/2016 2:13 AM	Rate (0)
Zvonko1952 Posts: 5 Rating: (0)	Thank you for finding the time to answer my post: the actual situation is that I have a program written for FW version V4.0 which I cannot install on PLC 1214C DC/DC/DC with FW3.02. I have tried to follow some limited instructions on updating the FW from 3 to 4 using PLC's web server but all attempts so far failed with reporting error of incorrect updating file(s) which are copied from official Siemens site! Regards to all!
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ChristophD Grandmaster Joined: 5/12/2006 Last visit: 4/17/2025 Posts: 22620 Rating: (3060)	Zvonko1952 Thank you for finding the time to answer my post: the actual situation is that I have a program written for FW version V4.0 which I cannot install on PLC 1214C DC/DC/DC with FW3.02. I have tried to follow some limited instructions on updating the FW from 3 to 4 using PLC's web server but all attempts so far failed with reporting error of incorrect updating file(s) which are copied from official Siemens site! Regards to all!1 because V3 can't be updated to V4! But xou can downgrade the FW of the projected PLC and load it to the V3 PLC.

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6/27/2016 10:00 AM	Rate (0)
Towome Platinum Expert Joined: 7/9/2015 Last visit: 4/17/2025 Posts: 4249 Rating: (631)	Hi, a firmware upgrade of the S7-1200 CPU modules is only possible from V.1x to V2.x. There is no way the FW upgrade from V2.x to V3.x and not of V3.x to V4.x. The firmware V2, V3 and V4 each require corresponding CPU hardware. Regards, Towome
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6/27/2016 4:11 PM	Rate (0)
Zvonko1952 Posts: 5 Rating: (0)	Thank you all! It seems that my interpretation of entry ID 67190848 and attempt to utilize files from Entry ID 107539750 were incorrect! Nevertheless, let me make a comment on CristopherD's suggestion, because, out of pure despair, I have already downgraded project from V4.0 to V3.0 ,which I was hesitant to implement yet for several reasons and they are all customer related and therefore beyond this post.There were two issues with this solution: a) you are going to lose the program, completely; I overcome this problem by copying blocks to Project Library BEFORE the PLC switch! If you know of more elegant solution please let me know. b) You (might) loose some compatibility with existing project components, in my case, HMI! Regards, Zvonko
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0_Einstein Diamond Expert Joined: 7/7/2010 Last visit: 4/17/2025 Posts: 15809 Rating: (2496)	You right click on the plc in the device view, select change device, and select the 3.0 firmware version. Compile hardware. Download hardware to PLC. Check for all green lights on all hardware and no new blinky lights. (This is a sanity check). Compile/rebuild all software. If you have communications other than HMI and profinet/profibus, you may need to adjust the instruction block version level down one (or more). This may require you re enter some interface tags to pick up the version changes to the data types hidden within. Once you get successful compile, download and start. Should be pretty close to working right there. Zvonko1952 Thank you all! It seems that my interpretation of entry ID 67190848 and attempt to utilize files from Entry ID 107539750 were incorrect! Nevertheless, let me make a comment on CristopherD's suggestion, because, out of pure despair, I have already downgraded project from V4.0 to V3.0 ,which I was hesitant to implement yet for several reasons and they are all customer related and therefore beyond this post.There were two issues with this solution: a) you are going to lose the program, completely; I overcome this problem by copying blocks to Project Library BEFORE the PLC switch! If you know of more elegant solution please let me know. b) You (might) loose some compatibility with existing project components, in my case, HMI! Regards, Zvonko
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Jen_Moderator Diamond Member Joined: 6/19/2017 Last visit: 9/6/2024 Posts: 8175 Rating: (174)	New question published by FilipTermovent is split to a separate thread with the subject Can't use the function blocks from SIEMENS Ident package which is needed for RF120C module. Best regards Jen_Moderator

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