SDS100/SDS200: Feature Request- How about not having to answer those prompts?

[policefreak]

So let's have a show of hands...how many of us using our Uniden SDS100's and BCD436HP models have ever hit the Replay button, listened to the recordings, gotten distracted, and realized after a few minutes that our scanner was quiet only to find it was stuck on the prompt asking us whether we want to hear the recordings again or go back to scanning. So after returning to scan mode we find we missed something good in those few minutes. Have you ever been there? Yeah, that is annoying. Is there any way that could be addressed in a future firmware upgrade? Maybe after 60 seconds of that prompt going unanswered the scanner automatically returns to scanning...or maybe even allow us to have an option where we set the time it takes for the scanner to return to scan mode after a prompt goes unanswered. Is there any way that can happen?
Ok how about this one...your SDS100 is on scan mode in your office or car or wherever and all of a sudden after a few minutes you realize it has gone quiet...only to find it is giving you the low battery warning and forcing you to acknowledge that the battery is low. So you run and grab your power adapter and plug it in and answer the prompt, only to find that you missed a good incident in the time the scanner was stuck on the low battery prompt. How many of us have had that happen? Again, is there maybe a way Uniden can make a setting where after 60 seconds or a set time the scanner reverts back to scanning? After all, we will still hear the beeps and see the battery indicator flashing to remind us the battery is low.

 

[hiegtx]

As far as replay-resume is concerned, I have not found that to be an issue (at least as far as I'm concerned). When I use replay, I'm using the scroll knob to zero in on what I want to hear again. Depending on what it is, I might see if the incident is showing online on a cad page, or maybe look up an address, or an alternate frequency that possibly should be monitored as well. Once I'm done, I go ahead and push the scanner to resume.

As far as the low battery is concerned, once it's low enough that the scanner stops with the warning on the screen, auto resuming scanning is not going to work as expected. If it's low enough to stop scanning, and showing the prompt, then trying to resume will end up causing the scanner to simply shut down due to low battery. Yeah, you might force it to try and resume, but with a battery that low, it won't run for long.