DP1400s Password protected, Need to recover them... Help

[AVEmoss]

So our radios used for our organisation, of which we have a licensce to use and operate, are password locked on CPS and we need to get past this.

now the smart thing would be to go to the person who set them up to get the password, however, unfortunately the person who did our radios has passed away and we do not know what it is!

The reason why we need to do this is that we have new radios we need to put on the same frequencies, so ideally would want to read the old ones to then clone the plug and whack it on to the new ones.

anyone who has ideas or can help would be great.

 

[nokones]

Good luck in getting pass the password protection especially with the Motorola CPS. I even had a computer software specialist try hex editing and he was unsuccessful in unlocking the CPS password in the software. I have heard many stories whereas some shops CPS password protect the radios and the technician either left the shop employment or died and no one had a clue what was the password, or the shop is no longer in business.

Some time ago, I ended up discarding about 25 perfectly good working radios and 4 multi-pocket chargers to electronic waste because of the CPS password protection.

 

[K2NEC]

Good luck in getting pass the password protection especially with the Motorola CPS. I even had a computer software specialist try hex editing and he was unsuccessful in unlocking the CPS password in the software. I have heard many stories whereas some shops CPS password protect the radios and the technician either left the shop employment or died and no one had a clue what was the password, or the shop is no longer in business.

Some time ago, I ended up discarding about 25 perfectly good working radios and 4 multi-pocket chargers to electronic waste because of the CPS password protection.

Skill issue

 

[K4EET]

The MOTOTRBO™ DP1400 HT is a discontinued, entry level, 32 channel analog/digital HT. It sounds like you all might be using these radios to talk simplex and not through a repeater. Regardless, if all you want to do is figure out the frequencies by channel number and any respective PL/DPL assignments, that should be easy enough done by a radio shop. They will not be able to clone the radios until they make a new template but that effort shouldn’t be hard. As for any channel options, that shouldn’t be too difficult to figure out. You all should be able to get the non-password protected radios programmed like the existing radios. Now if you want to change what is in the password protected HTs, then that is another story.

 

[RadioGuy7268]

Many times a radio will be set with a read-only password, protecting the information in the radio from being read/stolen, but allowing the customer to re-write or reprogram the radio.

To repeat the advice K4EET gave you above, take one or two of the radios to a competent local radio shop. They should be able to at least figure out the frequency/channel alignment in the radios, and/or determine the PL codes (analog) or the (digital) Color Codes in use. From there, you may have enough information to match up new radios, or reprogram your fleet. Older Motorola Digital radios did have some pretty wide gaps in the password security that were easily bypassed. Might want to take along any older radios that were originally set up to work on the system.

When a local radio guy died suddenly, we reached out to a previous employee of his, and were able to figure out most of the common passcodes that he had been using. Not always possible, but usually there's someone else who knows the codes.

 

[K4EET]

@AVEmoss, forgive me for not noticing that you just joined the best place to get RF related information. Welcome to Radio Reference!