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APX NEED CLEAN/DEFAULT CODEPLUG FOR APX 7000
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clbsquared
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Let me guess. You bought it on eBay and it is ASK protected. I’m not sure if a default codeplug is going to help you.
And even if it's not ASK protected and you do find a codeplug, it needs to match the model (I, II or III) and flashcode of the one you bought. That's one of my gripes about Motorola. . .
Send it back to the seller and get your money back.
ElroyJetson
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Mike's advice is probably the best. Unless you can get someone to provide you with some....special tools....that'll be your lowest effort path to success.
Really, Motorola was absolutely STUPID when they came up with ASK. "Hey, let's make it so that a radio can't be deprogrammed or repurposed, FOREVER, if it leaves the customer's control without being deprogrammed first!"
Really, Motorola was absolutely STUPID when they came up with ASK. "Hey, let's make it so that a radio can't be deprogrammed or repurposed, FOREVER, if it leaves the customer's control without being deprogrammed first!"
Not really a bad decision when it comes to trunking systems. A system key is important because it keeps people from screwing around on a system they don't need to be on. Scanning is fine, if you do it with a scanner. Some people on here only know enough to be dangerous and a system key is a good barrier to preventing them from really screwing up on somebody else's system. It would be nice if APX cps had two versions. One for the public without a recovery process and one for dealers with a recovery process that is strictly controlled.
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Because Motorola software control processes are flawless. What are you smoking? The whole Motorola subscriber "security" model around codeplugs, flashcodes, system keys, advanced system keys, and trunking systems has been broken since the start and continues to be broken to this day. It's all security through obscurity and nothing more.
ElroyJetson
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The problem is that a radio, once programmed with the ASK, can't be DEPROGRAMMED without it. And that creates its own suite of security risks, because MOST radios that are retired from service are NEVER deprogrammed before they end up in the box of electronic surplus that gets sold at public auction. If that radio is still functional, or made to be functional, and nobody bothered to inhibit it, then it's a live radio on a live system if it's still in range. Do you fail to see that problem?
Additionally, if the radio is of a type that still has significant aftermarket value, that value is destroyed by the fact that it's locked and can't be programmed. It can't even be DEprogrammed without the matching ASK in the programming loop.
It would NOT have killed Motorola to make allowances that permit a programmer to DELETE all trunked personalities without an ASK. In fact, set it up so that the only thing you can do to an ASK radio is delete the associated, ASK protected trunking personalities, or leave its contents exactly as they are, no changes.
To have radios locked down that are no longer even owned by the department that they were set up for originally is nothing short of monumental stupidity, the kind of which is rarely seen outside of a Presidential election in the USA!
Yes, there are ways to deprogram an ASK enabled radio. But we don't speak of them here.
Additionally, if the radio is of a type that still has significant aftermarket value, that value is destroyed by the fact that it's locked and can't be programmed. It can't even be DEprogrammed without the matching ASK in the programming loop.
It would NOT have killed Motorola to make allowances that permit a programmer to DELETE all trunked personalities without an ASK. In fact, set it up so that the only thing you can do to an ASK radio is delete the associated, ASK protected trunking personalities, or leave its contents exactly as they are, no changes.
To have radios locked down that are no longer even owned by the department that they were set up for originally is nothing short of monumental stupidity, the kind of which is rarely seen outside of a Presidential election in the USA!
Yes, there are ways to deprogram an ASK enabled radio. But we don't speak of them here.
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