Problem with USB mini jack.

[kwd57]

I had the same thought but you need a male to male usb cable and it not something you have lying around to test with. Amazon basics dont even sell that type of cable you have use another vendor

Try monoprice.com they may have what you want

 

[andybutler]

I didnt want to spend 20 bucks inc shipping to get a cable which might not work and cant use anywhere else.

Sent from my Transformer Prime TF201 using Tapatalk

 

[kwd57]

I didnt want to spend 20 bucks inc shipping to get a cable which might not work and cant use anywhere else.

Sent from my Transformer Prime TF201 using Tapatalk

Have you checked their prices. If they were any cheaper, they would have to give them away. Most cables I have got from them are about $2.00 to $3.00 and get next day shipping for about $5.00 But I do live within about 30 miles from them. I am not sure what exactly you want, but I looked on their site and most USB cables are about $1.00

 

[nr2d]

I suspect the that it is. I don't think Uniden would have changed the jack as part of their repair, but who knows?. Plus there are scores of people over in the ARC536 forum that are plagued with connectivity issues while in serial mode.

I think the mini USB jack is poorly made as it has a loose/sloppy fit when the cable is inserted. The two radios I sent in where that way but the ones I got back seem to be worse.

I have set my BCD536HP up so that I am not plugging and unplugging the mini-USB connector when ever I want to use VC in ARC536 beta. I do all of the plugging and unplugging on the computer side. I have not sent mine back yet for the headphone recall. Until this last update of ACR536 beta 0.89 build 11 I would still have disconnects 3 or 4 times over a several hour period where the scanner went back into the USB Mass Storage mode. I ran ARC536 beta 0.89 build 11 for about 4 hours last night without 1 instance of reverting to USB Mass Storage mode.

It didn't even bother ARC536 when I was adding unit IDs in Sentinal with ARC536 running in the background.

BTW I am using a new USB cable between my computer and scanner. The fit of the mini-USB with this new cable seems identical to the fit with the Uniden provided USB cable.

The only computer problem I had last night was trying to download IOS 7.1 from Apple on my iMac. I kept getting knocked off of the server.

I'll be running ARC536 and Sentinal together tonight as I update more unit IDs.

 

[an39511]

nr2d : Good to hear that things are working better. I do not know what causes the radio to fall into mass storage, but I do know that it can happen using other software such as RadioFeed, so I am not convinced that the problem is attributable to ARC536 alone, but as long as everything is working that is good news.