Tried connecting BCD536HP to different USB ports on 3 different PCs running Windows XP and can't get a connection on any of them. Called Uniden and after waiting on hold for 40 minutes they were of no help. Has anyone had a similar experience?
I assume you tried more than one USB cable?A friend of mine and I received our scanners the same day I received a both the 436 and 536HP and mine both connected to my windows 7 laptop and I updated the firmware on both and loaded my programming just fine. He came over the that night with his BCD536HP and it would not connect at all. I tried formatting the SD card with no change. He sent it back to the store for an exchange. Maybe they had a couple of bad ones. It was like the mini-usb port was not connected inside the scanner. When you plugged in the USB cable the scanner just kept scanning never came up with the prompt to select the mass storage mode like both of mine did. Nothine came up in the control panel under hardware device manager to even see what port it found if any.
Mike
By "ground noise" do you mean a low frequency "hum"?Love my new BCD536HP. I connected the speaker out to the microphone input on the back of my PC. I hear ground noise when I first touch the USB connector to the scanner and lose audio after disconnecting the USB after a program download. I switch the scanner off and back on and hear ground noise for a second and then it clears up. Neither the unit or the PC are grounded.
Speaker out to microphone in..Ouch! This is not a good idea on several fronts. If you want to connect your 536 to your computer I would suggest using the headphone jack on the 536 and connect it to a line input on your sound card, and keep the volume on the scanner set VERY low. Even this is not a great arrangement as you can easily overload the input, but given that the 536 does not have a line out jack your kind of stuck.Love my new BCD536HP. I connected the speaker out to the microphone input on the back of my PC. I hear ground noise when I first touch the USB connector to the scanner and lose audio after disconnecting the USB after a program download. I switch the scanner off and back on and hear ground noise for a second and then it clears up. Neither the unit or the PC are grounded.
Yes I tried my cable and his cable and all of my USB ports. Called the store and they suggested formatting the SD card so I did that too but I had to pull the card and put it in my SD slot on my laptop as I cannot connect to the scanner. Put the SD card back in after it was formatted and setup my file and still no connection. It can be programmed by removing the SD card but I don't like the idea of not being able to connect directly to the scanner. The scanner is on the way back to the store for an exchange.I assume you tried more than one USB cable?