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Personality deletion
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Nope!
That would not be a wise feature to include in a radio intended for public safety uses.
I can see it now:
"Hey, Muldoon, I accidently wiped my radio out again! Can I go to the radio shop and have them reprogram it for me?"
"No way, Ross! You and I both know that you'll spend all day at the strip club right across the street from the radio shop if I let you do that, and if I ain't going, you ain't going, either!"
I can see it now:
"Hey, Muldoon, I accidently wiped my radio out again! Can I go to the radio shop and have them reprogram it for me?"
"No way, Ross! You and I both know that you'll spend all day at the strip club right across the street from the radio shop if I let you do that, and if I ain't going, you ain't going, either!"
I was thinking along the lines of if there was some kind of hidden key press sequence.Obviously it would not make sense in a public safety setting to have such a option. It just kinda sucks to have to reprogram the radio back to it's default to and remove the personality for resale 
There are worse things. Like when you encounter a bunch of XTS3000s that were programmed with an advanced system key, and they're surplus, and you can NOT reprogram them without having the same ASK that they were programmed with. You can't even delete the existing file without it, which makes the radio both USELESS for resale and DANGEROUS if whomever has them is within range of their home system, it's still active, and the radios aren't stunned, inhibited, or killed.
There is a way to render those radios clean and useful again but it's a different subject entirely...
There is a way to render those radios clean and useful again but it's a different subject entirely...
There is a factory reset key-sequence that pretty much wipes the entire radio for the XG100 series.
Are there factory reset key-sequence to wipe out all memory from older series radios, like Jaguar 700P for instance?
No idea, but our Marines would certainly find it if they had access to the radios. We didn't know that the key-sequence was there for the XG100Ps, but Marines started bringing radios in that they wiped clean by the button press sequence.
Im sure there is a key sequence for all the radios. I know you can put a lot of them into programming mode ( still need RPM to program it) by Pressing the three buttons on the side all at once while turning it on.
How about this: besides getting into programming mode.... Is there any other button pushes besides that on any of the Harris radios people would like to share. I think its useful cause it might be something to be mindful of so we don't brick our radios.
what is the sequence on the XG100?
It is programmable. We reprogrammed them to change the button press sequence to make it harder to erase in the future. I cannot remember the original sequence.
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The only "key-press-to-delete-things" I know of on the portables is holding the two side buttons in (the opt buttons not PTT) to KEY ZERO the radio. Aside from that, I dont think there is a way to intentionally brick the radio from the front panel, which is good.
The XG-100p has the reset procedure as a key hold sequence because there is no real way to communicate with the radio if it becomes locked up somehow. Older models could at least be booted into BURNAPP to do some recovery but it seems Harris doesn't want you to be able to see into the inner workings on the Unity. It does have serial in/out ports on the UDC but I haven't investigated what those do yet.
The XG-100p has the reset procedure as a key hold sequence because there is no real way to communicate with the radio if it becomes locked up somehow. Older models could at least be booted into BURNAPP to do some recovery but it seems Harris doesn't want you to be able to see into the inner workings on the Unity. It does have serial in/out ports on the UDC but I haven't investigated what those do yet.
It seems the simple solution would be to move the radio shop away from the strip club...
Or like most reputable bigger named radio support authorized dealer shops... They will come out with a good lap top and reprogram it for you right at your station house. Individual radio shops are becoming more far a few. Bigger authorized dealers have moved into the game to do the jobs for nearly the same price and most offer the service to come to you for fixing not the other way around.
Thats how I used to make my money.
Not a bad gig especially if it's a cash only jobs!!
Thought you guys might be interested in this bulletin from Harris. Yes, you can "Master Reset" the radio blowing everything out of it. The procedure on this bulletin will work on radios that have Firmware XGPRO02XXX or better installed.
If you have Firmware prior to the XGPROXXXXX versions you use the same procedure, just don't use the PTT.
Hope this helps.
If you have Firmware prior to the XGPROXXXXX versions you use the same procedure, just don't use the PTT.
Hope this helps.
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