CommJunkie
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upgraded firmware and now my G5 will not alert for 2-tone on VHF for one specific channel, but all 5 tone sets that I have programmed do not alert. Anyone have any ideas?
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New Firmware/PPS Release for G2-G5 Voice Pagers (V2.04 & V0.4.0.46)
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2wayfreq
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Thats what Irks me. New Firmware is supposed to just enhance features, not break existing ones!
I am about ready to invest in the Unication G5+ voice pager. Do firmware updates from Unication frequently break things or is this an unusual occurrence? Thanks in advance for your input.
2wayfreq
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I have see quite a few posts where upgrading was done and some prior features suddenly stopped working.
Sounds like Unication's Alpha and Beta test procedures are not being thorough enough with the different versions of the same series pagers. When I was doing QA tasks, the "monkey test" was also a part of the procedure where you press the right buttons in the wrong sequence and every which way to see if you could "break" the device under test.
Anyway... thanks for the comment!I have 2 G5s. One I keep at 1.35 and the other I keep fairly updated. I haven't done the latest update yet to the one I keep more current.
I don't do anything "fancy" with them only listen to our counties local simulcast and when working in other areas usually if they're trunking set up a knob position for that if I don't have it already there.
I need to do a little more comparison I guess my wife uses the newer looking one and I carry "the beater". (Was pretty worn when I got it well used).
I honestly have not seen a need to update mine from 1.35 to anything else from comparisons I've made while at home comparing the two.
I've rarely been one to jump on the latest firmware releases of firmware for most devices I own. I know guys that the minute it comes out they have to jump right on it and I've never understood that.
I don't do anything "fancy" with them only listen to our counties local simulcast and when working in other areas usually if they're trunking set up a knob position for that if I don't have it already there.
I need to do a little more comparison I guess my wife uses the newer looking one and I carry "the beater". (Was pretty worn when I got it well used).
I honestly have not seen a need to update mine from 1.35 to anything else from comparisons I've made while at home comparing the two.
I've rarely been one to jump on the latest firmware releases of firmware for most devices I own. I know guys that the minute it comes out they have to jump right on it and I've never understood that.
Some folks just gotta have the latest and greatest…
Its very frustrating!
I believe there is a problem with Bluetooth in the new firmware. I posted it above.
My G4 seems to forget my Bluetooth speaker mic because it won't connect to it and then can't find it when its searches, even though the speaker mic is powered on and next to it. Turning off Bluetooth, turning the G4 off, then back on, then turning bluetooth on and searching for it seems to work 98% of the time. There have been times that didn't work and one time I had to pull the battery for a half hour before my G4 connected to my Bluetooth speaker mic.
I did ask my dealer about it, but never got a response.
Yes I reverted from 2.04 back to 2.02. My issue involved Unit Id's. Each zone holds 1000 Id's, if you have over 1000 such as my case, you could create a dummy zone and program the extra Id's into it and the radio would display all of them just fine. I have ~1400, when I upgraded to 2.04 this went away. After a day or two I did not see any performance enhancements, and decided to go back to 2.02, life is once again good.
Thanks. Awesome to hear. Glad you could get things back again.
I haven't tried to revert back. I'm just living with the Bluetooth issue I mentioned.
I’ve been having problems with my pager staying locked on a channel and freezing the pager after the new firmware update 2.4. On P25, Pager was working fine on version 2.2 any recommendations?
Multiple users are seeing this issue on 2.4. So far I have not heard that support has a fix for this yet.
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It looked like the update had been taken down. If you click the autoup it say website not found.
https://autoup.unicationusa.com is currently not working as of 7/25/2026 @ 9:31 AM
Interesting. I had my G4 (with 2.4) lock up last Saturday for the first time while I was pressing the button to go to the menu. It also happened on Monday. It had to sit for about 10 minutes powered off before it sorted itself out and started working again.
How would one go about reverting to FW 2.02?
The USA site is working fine
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