New Legacy Scanner Upgrade Program

[Wackyracer]

If your scanner was hacked and no longer receives DMR you can thank whistler for their zero day code that has what whistler considers "LOCKED" your scanner from being updated or rolled back to RS firmware. They are offering to sell you a new trx-1 for your trouble, you can thank them by not buying any whistler products until they agree to UNLOCK and upgrade those scanners under the current program price of $60.

You can contact them via this link and let them know what you think of their zero day code here: https://whistlergroup.com/pages/contact-us-2

 

[Fasteddy2]

PRO-668 upgrade

If your scanner was hacked and no longer receives DMR you can thank whistler for their zero day code that has what whistler considers "LOCKED" your scanner from being updated or rolled back to RS firmware. They are offering to sell you a new trx-1 for your trouble, you can thank them by not buying any whistler products until they agree to UNLOCK and upgrade those scanners under the current program price of $60.

You can contact them via this link and let them know what you think of their zero day code here: https://whistlergroup.com/pages/contact-us-2

Thanks @wackyracer for posting this.

 

[fredva]

Fortunately, I chose not to apply the hack. My expectation is that DMR will work; I haven't had a good opportunity to try DMR since my scanner was returned. I know P2 works.

 

[MaximusTheGreat]

Why bother wasting an email for them to un$uck themselves! Right now they are getting tons of bad press on these forums and also on Facebook. This type of corporate greed is why I support those that love to reverse engineer technology and use it for the greater good. The greater good being, you and I.

Personally, I was going to pay for the upgrade. But now, forget them. I'll keep my money in my pocket.

This is an open call to those that enjoy circumventing code, please come up with a fix for the disaster Whistler decided to screw us 668 holders.

 

[Hamradiostuffing]

Why bother wasting an email for them to un$uck themselves! Right now they are getting tons of bad press on these forums and also on Facebook. This type of corporate greed is why I support those that love to reverse engineer technology and use it for the greater good. The greater good being, you and I.

Personally, I was going to pay for the upgrade. But now, forget them. I'll keep my money in my pocket.

This is an open call to those that enjoy circumventing code, please come up with a fix for the disaster Whistler decided to screw us 668 holders.

Also tell all your friends that are scanner buffs who are not on this list about this also. Word of Mouth advertising is the best way to get the word around. And really it works the same way for the negative.

 

[TAbirdman]

So let me understand this, some are pissed because they used unauthorized "hacked" code, use of that code caused the hacked dmr function to stop working and your blaming whistler? Really? it didnt brick the unit, its still a 668 or 800 or 18. From what I've read the radio is better now than what it was in its stock form. You choose to use the hacked code. Whistler has warnings of using software on other models it wasnt set up for. You took the risk.

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[IAmSixNine]

So let me understand this, some are pissed because they used unauthorized "hacked" code, use of that code caused the hacked dmr function to stop working and your blaming whistler? Really? it didnt brick the unit, its still a 668 or 800 or 18. From what I've read the radio is better now than what it was in its stock form. You choose to use the hacked code. Whistler has warnings of using software on other models it wasnt set up for. You took the risk.

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Not quite, Your missing an important key element.
Whistler enabled code to lock up the device permanently. This disables the update they offered us for $60 to legacy users.
Thats the part that is bothering me.
Prior to that it was people experimenting and then happy when we were offered an official update. I like many others are wanting to pay to have a unit updated to have the official software, now we cant.

 

[shajen]

Hack? No

I agree. I always new I had the ability to "hack" my PRO-668, but in the back of mind I suspected
that somewhere down the road I would have some type of issues with my scanner. I also was hoping that
Radio Shack would eventually come through with updates for the scanner. But, finally Whistler picked up
the ball and supplied the upgrades. I am glad I waited.

 

[scan18]

Yeah, let's not go down that road again. There is a whole locked thread with the varying viewpoints.

I feel exactly the same as IamSixNine. I have no problem with the DMR function being disabled. I'm still not convinced that the "lock" code was intentional to prevent an official upgrade. I suspect it was an unintentional byproduct and now they have to just deal with it. I find it hard to believe they would intentionally cause something that would prevent users from giving them money just for spite.

 

[MaximusTheGreat]

Not quite, Your missing an important key element.
Whistler enabled code to lock up the device permanently. This disables the update they offered us for $60 to legacy users.
Thats the part that is bothering me.
Prior to that it was people experimenting and then happy when we were offered an official update. I like many others are wanting to pay to have a unit updated to have the official software, now we cant.

Thank you for FULLY explaining the story. It seems that people that posts are not fully aware as to what Whistler did in response is extremely shady....

I'll even break it down even further for those that are Whistler fan boys....

You purchased an iPhone or iPad.. You decide to jailbreak it. You now have a functional device that works to your liking. You've customized it to your needs. Then Apple creates an update that is sent out. You load that update without knowing the change log. All of sudden your shiny working device no longer works. Why you may ask? Later you find out that Apple pushed an update that cripples the device. Is that kosher? I think not....

Did or does Apple give a rats a$$ about jailbreaking and unlocking these devices? NOPE....

Did or does Apple care that you can get free Apps while jailbreaking? Nope....

And why don't they care? Simple.... They are selling a huge amount of devices, while only a small amount of consumers actually jailbreak the devices. Did anyone go after Cydia and it's creators? Nope...

Perhaps people should see the big picture and not be fanboys of these companies that pull these stunts that truly are negatively affecting there own companies source of revenue. Let's be honest, WE ARE THAT SOURCE OF REVENUE!

 

[Fasteddy2]

Thank you for FULLY explaining the story. It seems that people that posts are not fully aware as to what Whistler did in response is extremely shady....

I'll even break it down even further for those that are Whistler fan boys....

You purchased an iPhone or iPad.. You decide to jailbreak it. You now have a functional device that works to your liking. You've customized it to your needs. Then Apple creates an update that is sent out. You load that update without knowing the change log. All of sudden your shiny working device no longer works. Why you may ask? Later you find out that Apple pushed an update that cripples the device. Is that kosher? I think not....

Did or does Apple give a rats a$$ about jailbreaking and unlocking these devices? NOPE....

Did or does Apple care that you can get free Apps while jailbreaking? Nope....

And why don't they care? Simple.... They are selling a huge amount of devices, while only a small amount of consumers actually jailbreak the devices. Did anyone go after Cydia and it's creators? Nope...

Perhaps people should see the big picture and not be fanboys of these companies that pull these stunts that truly are negatively affecting there own companies source of revenue. Let's be honest, WE ARE THAT SOURCE OF REVENUE!

Guess our money is not good enough.

 

[IAmSixNine]

I too am looking forward to what Whistler is going to do to try to fix this issue. I will hold my whistler bashing for a big longer and hope they are working on a solution.
I do believe its possible that PR and Engineering arent on the same page and this may have been an unintended side affect of them trying to discourage us playing with old scanners.

 

[MaximusTheGreat]

I'm a realist.... I've praised Whistler in the past, especially Wendy. At the same time, I'll bash them when they do something not cool. I give credit where credit is due. I just can't stand behind them on this latest stunt. Once and IF they correct this, then I will leave an updated response and praise them once again. Until then, they get a big Fat F for Ducking over their own customers.

 

[rgchristy]

This is my complaint:

Regardless of your opinion of whether "you're on your own, you shouldn't have done it, it's stealing", etc., there should have been an official, sticky topic and posting from Whistler on RR.com and also an email sent to every one of their customers that said "If you do not revert back to firmware X and DSP X by xx/xx/2017, your scanner radio will be locked up and you will not be able to utilize our legacy upgrade program".

 

[APX8000]

What's ironic is I've seen some images in which "Whistler Wendy" uses the trademark of a certain burger chain. I'm sure they didn't get
permission to use it to promote their products.....I think I'll send legal a little email.


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[willtorres918]

What's ironic is I've seen some images in which "Whistler Wendy" uses the trademark of a certain burger chain. I'm sure they didn't get
permission to use it to promote their products.....I think I'll send legal a little email.


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I noticed that too. A modified version of the logo as well. Hmmmm.

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[MaximusTheGreat]

I noticed that too. A modified version of the logo as well. Hmmmm.

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Can you guys or anyone post that image? I would like to see it... Or PM it to me and I'll post it!

 

[BrianG61UK]

Not quite, Your missing an important key element.
Whistler enabled code to lock up the device permanently.

So that it's completely bricked?

Which update was that?

Was eric claiming that update was supported by his hack?

I doubt it.

So why did people try it?

 

[willtorres918]

Can you guys or anyone post that image? I would like to see it... Or PM it to me and I'll post it!

There ya go. [emoji1]

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[MaximusTheGreat]

There ya go. [emoji1]

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But how did she use that?