gibersop
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Please help! I bought a bcd396xt off eBay, came with nothing. It does work and was previously programmed. So I bought the programming cable also off ebay. The description said it was a Uniden programming cable for the bcd396xt. I downloaded freescan, Followed all of the instructions, plug the usb cable in the computer, plug the cable into the scanner and hit tranfer. And.... get an error message that freescan can not connect.
So I do some reading on forums and such and decide to download the (PL2303 Prolific Driver V1.8.0). That doesn't work either! I try another computer it doesn't work there either. So a friend of mine, who has programmed 6, BCD996P2 a couple other Uniden scanners, tries to program mine. That doesn't work either.
The problem with all the attempts are the computers aren't "seeing" that the device is plugged in. It does not show up in device manager and when you plug it in, there no notifications that something is plugged in and need a driver installed, like normal. I did a hard reset of the scanner and tried again, with no success. Does anyone have any advice? I am leaning toward a crappy, off-brand cable.
So I do some reading on forums and such and decide to download the (PL2303 Prolific Driver V1.8.0). That doesn't work either! I try another computer it doesn't work there either. So a friend of mine, who has programmed 6, BCD996P2 a couple other Uniden scanners, tries to program mine. That doesn't work either.
The problem with all the attempts are the computers aren't "seeing" that the device is plugged in. It does not show up in device manager and when you plug it in, there no notifications that something is plugged in and need a driver installed, like normal. I did a hard reset of the scanner and tried again, with no success. Does anyone have any advice? I am leaning toward a crappy, off-brand cable.