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Help with LPE-200, radio died

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GILMOORE

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I have an LPE-200 radio that just went dead. No audio, and no display. Stuck on Channel 2. When I shut it off, and turn it back on, it just goes back to the same channel. Can someone please help, or has anybody had this issue before?

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your radio has been disabled or "bricked" as some say. The system administrator saw your LID pop up in the CSD and it is probably not a valid LID so they sent a command to your radio which makes it dead. If your radio is an authorized radio, contact the system administrator and they will re-enable it.
 

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DO NOT ASK ME FOR HELP PROGRAMMING YOUR RADIO. NO.
Reprogram it and make VERY sure that auto-affiliation is turned off, if that feature is present in the sofware for LPEs (I don't know if it is or not.) But be sure that TX and calls are turned off for every talkgroup you're not authorized to transmit on.

Elroy
 

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Help for LPE-200

While I am incredibly appreciative for you taking the time to reply to me and give me extremely useful info, I have another request of you if you don't mind. I bought the radio that way not knowing the auto was activated. I am not familiar with the programming side of this model. I do have the program, but I'm not sure how to shut that feature you referred to, off. I can get it into program mode, but after that, I'm stuck. Thank you SO much for your help, as I have no support.
 

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I can vouch for GILMOORE he is a good friend and would help anyone else if they were in his shoes. He is a True scanner Buff. So if there is anyone that can help him please do. He does appreciate it.
 

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Read the radio and then save the personality.

Then open the personality and save it as something else, like "LPE 06APR08" so you know it's the most recent.

Now open that new pers file and click on the "SETS" tab. Next, double click the "Group Sets" selection. When the window pops up, make sure that under the "Group Options" area that the "Transmit" box is not checked on any of the talk groups.

Also, under the "Options" tab, scroll down to the "Power Up Options" selection and double click it. Make sure that "EDACS/EDACS IP Login" is not checked.

Other than this, I'd look at changing the LID.
 
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JungleJim said:
your radio has been disabled or "bricked" as some say. The system administrator saw your LID pop up in the CSD and it is probably not a valid LID so they sent a command to your radio which makes it dead. If your radio is an authorized radio, contact the system administrator and they will re-enable it.

When I have diasbaled radios on my system, all buttons / keys are disabled and the radio is not able to be placed into program mode. It first has to be re-activated. If I have overlooked something, please let me know so I may learn something that I though I knew but was wrong.
 

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Can someone please help with programming my LPE-200? I had been given some instructions on how to reprogram my radio, but I'm not very familiar with the program that I'm using for it. My radio has been disabled lately.
 

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Scott posted step-by-step instructions on how to fix the radio. Did you follow them?? If so, what was the outcome? If you're not familiar enough with programming to follow his instructions, then you should not be programming radios.

GILMOORE said:
Can someone please help with programming my LPE-200? I had been given some instructions on how to reprogram my radio, but I'm not very familiar with the program that I'm using for it. My radio has been disabled lately.
 

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I bought the radio already programmed and I was given the software. I'm not entirely confident so I was looking for some support, that's all. This radio is a new experience, very high-end compared to what I've programmed and modified before...
 

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The only way I can read the radio is using radio maintenance. It gives me all relevant info but then when I want to save the personality I can't. I don't know if the program is garbage that was given to me. Everything should work together, but doesn't.
 

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GILMOORE said:
The only way I can read the radio is using radio maintenance. It gives me all relevant info but then when I want to save the personality I can't. I don't know if the program is garbage that was given to me. Everything should work together, but doesn't.

NO! Do not use Radio Maintenance at all - for ANYTHING. Once you start messing around with Radio Maintenance, you'll have to re-align the radio and if you don't have the right tools (service monitor, etc), it'll cost you some bills to get it back to normal.

Only use "ProGrammer" to read/write the radio.
 

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rescue161 said:
NO! Do not use Radio Maintenance at all - for ANYTHING. Once you start messing around with Radio Maintenance, you'll have to re-align the radio and if you don't have the right tools (service monitor, etc), it'll cost you some bills to get it back to normal.

Only use "ProGrammer" to read/write the radio.
when i use the programmer it never seem to work right i be more then happy to pay some one to program it i payed to much just to have it sit there please let me no scott thank you
 

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when the radio in program how do read what in the radio nothing seems to work wheni try to read the radio or reprogram it.
 

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DO NOT ASK ME FOR HELP PROGRAMMING YOUR RADIO. NO.
With ProGrammer, one thing you HAVE to do is know exactly what type of radio you're reading. If you don't get that right, the software will report "wrong radio type" so be sure you get it right.

What you CAN do with the Radio Maintenance Tools is to click on the MRK/LPE/Orion etc. tab, and then click on the icon of the blue magnifying glass. This is "get status" and the resulting data displayed will tell you exactly what kind of radio you have.

Of course, to use this feature, you must first place the radio into programming mode
before getting the status.

I would advise using radio maintenance for NOTHING except for getting the status to ID
the correct radio model. Once you've read that info, disconnect the radio from the
cable, remember the radio type, close the radio maintenance tools and forget you've ever
seen it. So as to avoid possibly bricking your radio for good.

Elroy
 

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I HAVE ALL THE IFORMATION ON THE MAKE OF THE RADIO THE FLASH ID ROM GROUP NUMBER ROM VERSION ROM REVSION ICP GROUP NUMBER ICP VERSION CONTROLLER TYPE NAME I HAVE IT PRINTED OUT THE RADIO TYPE NUMBER IS 99 PRISM HP/LPE-200 THE PROGRAM VERSION BYTE=0x12 i dont no were to start or were to end iam down over this. just had it for 2or3 months that it
 

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Okay, do you have the programming cable? Can you put the radio into program mode? If you don't have the cable or can't get the radio into program mode, you are out of luck.
 

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I Have The Program Cable I Have The Rib Cable And I Read The Radio Informaion I Printed A Copy .
 
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