BigEvil
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I'm thrilled to have purchased two of these wonderful new scanners (one to replace my dedicated scanner for my LAPD live feed and the other which will eventually serve as a remote scanner to monitor on my iPhone wherever I go.)
Unfortunately I'm having some major issues which has resulted in the inability for one of my scanners to function at all.
I've narrowed the problem down one of the SD cards. Since I bought two 536HPs I was able to try switching out the the SD card from one to the other(one works perfectly in both scanners, the other has issues in both scanners). Both were working before originally writing data to them from sentinel so I'm assuming something got corrupted along the way.
This leave one of my scanners bricked(as seen in the picture below) because its useless without the SD card. Very frustrating to say the least after the hefty investment. Any ideas and help greatly appreciated.
Originally no matter what I did I couldn't get Sentinel to recognize this particular scanner/sd card properly.
At one point it showed up as A:/ESNXXXXXXXXXXXXXX or something and gives me the following when trying to read/write etc.
Finally I performed the following steps
1) I formatted the card via a computer, which did nothing.
2) performed a all clear reset of the scanner which kept the same sd card error message up.
3) I connected/disconnected the scanner a few times after the all clear to the computer and noticed FINALLY in sentinel that it was showing up (this time as E:/XXXXXXXXXX)
4) For the first time ever I was able to do a "clear user data" from sentinel which appeared to take (the software gave me a successful dialog).
5) unfortunately the scanner is STILL giving me the dialog on the front panel
I'm a bit at my frustrations peak at the moment since I've spend a few hours troubleshooting and can't get it to take so any help is incredible!!
Unfortunately I'm having some major issues which has resulted in the inability for one of my scanners to function at all.
I've narrowed the problem down one of the SD cards. Since I bought two 536HPs I was able to try switching out the the SD card from one to the other(one works perfectly in both scanners, the other has issues in both scanners). Both were working before originally writing data to them from sentinel so I'm assuming something got corrupted along the way.
This leave one of my scanners bricked(as seen in the picture below) because its useless without the SD card. Very frustrating to say the least after the hefty investment. Any ideas and help greatly appreciated.
Originally no matter what I did I couldn't get Sentinel to recognize this particular scanner/sd card properly.
At one point it showed up as A:/ESNXXXXXXXXXXXXXX or something and gives me the following when trying to read/write etc.
Finally I performed the following steps
1) I formatted the card via a computer, which did nothing.
2) performed a all clear reset of the scanner which kept the same sd card error message up.
3) I connected/disconnected the scanner a few times after the all clear to the computer and noticed FINALLY in sentinel that it was showing up (this time as E:/XXXXXXXXXX)
4) For the first time ever I was able to do a "clear user data" from sentinel which appeared to take (the software gave me a successful dialog).
5) unfortunately the scanner is STILL giving me the dialog on the front panel
I'm a bit at my frustrations peak at the moment since I've spend a few hours troubleshooting and can't get it to take so any help is incredible!!
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