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DaveNF2G
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I dislike the "how long should I hold it down?" power switch, but Uniden is not the only offender. 
Is a second generation of homepatrol set to be released?
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LIScanner101
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I dislike the "how long should I hold it down?" power switch, but Uniden is not the only offender.
Agreed - my Droid is like that too - you never really know how long you need to hold down the power button before it turns on.
pgnsucks
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I dislike the "how long should I hold it down?" power switch, but Uniden is not the only offender.
What is it like a 5 second delay like a computer?
Danny37
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It's about 2-4 seconds. However has anyone else notice that it occasionally crashes and you need to pull out the batteries and data card out.
I also agree the data card could be in a more accessible place.
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DaveNF2G
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My HP has never crashed.
Danny37
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You've never got the "SD card error, please remove for one minute" I guess your one of the lucky ones.
NWI_Scanner_Guy
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I must be lucky as well. Granted, I've only had my HP-1 for about 4 months so that leaves room for the error message to still pop up, but so far it's been all good.
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I use a non-standard (32gb) card in my HPs (all three of them). The only time I've ever had the "SD card error" message was when I had a cheap, non-quality card in the device, and certain temperature conditions (usually significantly cold weather, i.e. being left in the car during sub-freezing temps) existed. My suspicion is that the card was outside the tolerances required by the specifications and not making contact with the card socket any more. Since I switched to good quality (SanDisk Ultra) class 10 cards, I have never had the error come up again.
Danny37
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Yea I was thinking that switching SD cards, sometimes between battery operation and AC operation this error pops up for me. Is there any harm in switching the SD card? Would I lose the database or is that stored somewhere else?
Danny37
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Sorry for newbie questions, I just got this unit a few days ago
Everything for the radio (database, favorites lists, etc) except the actual operating system software is stored on the SD card.
When I switched from the stock 2gb card to a larger 32gb card, what I did is this:
1. Remove the 2gb card from the HP and put into a microSD reader (most cards you buy retail come with an adaptor or reader that you can put into an open USB port on your PC).
2. Connect the reader to your PC. Open in Windows Explorer and copy everything you see on the 2gb card into a newly-created folder on the PC (can be on your desktop, in My Documents, whereever, so long as you keep all the files from the card together in one spot - this is just a temporary storage location).
3. Once done the file transfer, safely remove the 2gb card/reader (use the "safely remove USB media" function in the system tray) and then put the new SD card in the reader; reconnect the reader to the PC.
4. Copy everything back from the new folder on your PC, into the new SD card.
5. Once again safely remove the new card/reader, remove the card from the reader, and put it in the HP. At that point, you can power up the HP and continue on with life.
Danny37
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Thanks jay, I am utterly grateful!
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DaveNF2G
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Nope, never seen it, and I own two HP-1E units.
AZScanner
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I wouldn't rule SDR out just yet. There's already an Android SDR software package out there, and the Rasberry PI is catching up fast to where it would need to be to run SDR effectively. I would not be surprised to see a community designed "open source" portable SDR becoming a true reality in the next year or two. When that day comes, companies like Uniden are really going to need to step up their game. Why would I buy a $500 radio when I can by a Raspberry PI and two SDR dongles for less than $100?
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LIScanner101
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You DO make an excellent point. Things are getting smaller and smaller each day.
PS - I have an older Droid X smartphone - are you saying I could sort of "make" my phone into a scanner right now? I still feel like a moron when it comes to SDR so please understand where these more-than-likely silly questions are coming from :lol:
AZScanner
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That I'm not sure about. I think the Android SDR package only supports certain phones or tablets because it does require quite a bit of horsepower to run. Theoretically though, if your phone is supported and you have an SDR dongle and the appropriate adapter to connect it up to your phone then yes, you could turn your old android phone into a rudimentary, analog scanner. Right now it's more of a "hey isn't that neat" kind of novelty, but eventually I think the hardware and software will be out there to allow you to create a portable "digital scanner" yourself using maybe $100 or less worth of hardware. I already have successfully created a second "digital scanner" for myself by connecting one SDRDongle to a laptop computer running SDRSharp, Unitrunker and DSD for about $20 total. Sure beats paying $500 for a second scanner and the performance I get out of it on the local P25 simulcast system rivals that of my BC796D scanner. Other than the audio being about a 1/2 second behind the Uniden, it works just as well, plus now I can receive 700MHz.
There's a few things this set up can't do that my BC796D can. I can reliably hold on a talkgroup with the scanner whereas with Unitrunker I'd need a second dongle for that plus my own custom plugin for SDR Sharp. I can create a scanlist of talkgroups to monitor and reject the others - Unitrunker doesn't provide a real convenient way to do that. I can hop from system to system while scanning. Unitrunker tends to freak out if I do that in SDR. Things like that. But give it a few years and I think you'll not only be able to do everything in software that scanners can do today, but you'll also be able to stuff it all in a project box and take it on the road easily.
The big question is: Will there be anything unencrypted left to listen to? LOL...
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OK, I guess I 'll have to be "that guy". A message just popped up on the BCTool Yahoo group from "BCD536HP". Who says that the new scanner will be the "BCD536HP". No other details of course and as we know Uniden doesn't release information on upcoming models more then six months before the actual release.
I'd like to think that Uniden is taking advantage of GRE's absence from the scanner business to release a new model. It sure would be nice.
I'd like to think that Uniden is taking advantage of GRE's absence from the scanner business to release a new model. It sure would be nice.
LIScanner101
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psssstttt...I think it was sarcasm...
If it was, it was sarcasm fail.
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