as a back story, our county requires ASKs to get on to the trunk system. We went through the vendor they asked, and the vendor said that the radios are not supported for a flash upgrade. Has anyone else had this happen to them?
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Motorola APX7000s not supported anymore.
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Yikes that’s an issue! County is being very firm about requiring ASKs…
Time for the 8000 then.
They want total control, so they want the ASK enabled box to be ticked unfourtanalately
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They just cut off flash upgrades for the AN series 6000/7000 portables and some mobiles 12/31/2023. You may could beg your rep to push one through. I am not sure if they will process or not, the worst they can tell you is heck no. I do agree that if they would just write protect the ASK then its really close to the same thing as ASK required.
All AN models
MTS2000des
5B2_BEE00 Czar
That's right boys and girls! All these Ebay ripoff artists wanting four figures are scammers. The AN 6000s are kicked to the curb. No depot service. No parts like control tops. No more flash upgrades. Nada. I wouldn't be surprised if future firmware packages aren't backported either.
Your ANs have been sent to die and put out of their misery. Pony up for a BN or APX N series. The days of keeping subscriber radios for 10 years or more are over.
Your ANs have been sent to die and put out of their misery. Pony up for a BN or APX N series. The days of keeping subscriber radios for 10 years or more are over.
That makes zero sense, they can write protect the radio just for their system and can also control the range of EID's and TG's you would be able to program. Requiring the check box in CPS adds no value to you and actually removes your ability to program another system that might just have soft keys (yes they are still out there). I was setting limits on users programming permissions as far back as our MTS2000's when ASK's first came out.
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R14 for life!!
Oh no, so the APX7000Rs we bought in 2010 that still do everything we ask of them and are working fine on fw29 were expected to stop working 4 years ago? Whatever will we do? /s
Not sure what your vendor is exactly referring to (who knows what he/she asked for), but you can still get flash kits for APX7000 XE's. I would guess non XE models as well.
