XL glitched on powerup.

[ElroyJetson]

This is interesting. My XL185 threw this glitch on power-up. It was OK after a power cycle.

Thought I'd post it, because I want to document it for general interest. Have you seen any XL glitches?

I've got to say, I've never been impressed at the responsiveness of this radio with regard to how long it takes
to catch up to system changes. It's two full seconds, or more.

Power-up to the password screen takes about eight seconds.

 

[lbd1123]

Mine has had a few glitches but not to this extent, I switched antennas from the all band antenna to the stubby antenna and the radio dropped the power down to low power. Also on mine the blue channel color doesn’t work. All of the other colors seems to work fine when it comes to color co ordinating the talk groups for the top display.

 

[lbd1123]

Try to reload the mission plan back on the radio

 

[MTS2000des]

The XL runs on a real time operating system and like anything else that has an O/S and applications, they crash. This is one area where an OMAP based device shines. Not that they don't have bugs, but less "bloatware" is always a good thing.

 

[ElroyJetson]

No reason to reload the mission plan. It was fine after a power cycle as I mentioned originally.

 

[KK6ZTE]

Thought I'd post it, because I want to document it for general interest. Have you seen any XL glitches?

Heh, more like when do I not see any XL glitches... Mine are well documented with Harris.

Boot time, lack of STE on scanning, delayed response to user input, the horrific time between changing a channel and it actually working, etc.

It's an okay radio if you don't do anything with it (live on one channel). I'm convinced conventional anything on this radio is an afterthought. It's probably great on a trunking system where you never interact with it once it's powered on.

 

[ElroyJetson]

It does make a VERY nice trunking scanner! And with talkback capability, if needed.

 

[KevinC]

And with talkback capability, if needed.

You know...just in case.