I'm having so much trouble with my scanner lately. First the charging port is going out and I have to manually hold the cord in the right spot with pressure for it to connect for power or programming. I tried powering it with the other port (I know it won't charge with that, I just wanted power to run it) and that doesn't work at all. I got an external charger and new battery and put that battery in and am using only that for power.
Now it's shutting off randomly. Sometimes I'm in the act of setting it down and it turns off. Sometimes it's just been sitting on the table with nobody touching it and it turns off. Sometimes in the middle of a transmission. Since the screen is off when there's no transmission (I'm trying to save battery), I often don't even realize it's shut down until I notice I haven't heard anything in awhile and I try moving the dial or hitting a key. Many times it's turned itself off. It's not hot and it's working properly for scanning when it's on. It's got good battery power with the brand new battery - currently at 3.63V.
Just now it had been working fine and it happened again. I picked it up to check a setting and...it's turned off again. No warning, no saving to sd card message, nothing. Just a blank screen and I have to hit the power button to turn it back on. I just powered it back up, the lists loaded and I hit the menu key to check the setting and it shut down again before I even got the settings selected. It doesn't do or say anything, it's just suddenly off. I powered it on again, got into settings, turned off the flash w/backlight off setting and was checking the other backlight settings and it shut off again while I was in there. It's happening more and more frequently, I think.
I know I need to send it in for repair for the ports - and the dial that's not landing on options properly - but is this now another thing I need to add to the repair order? Or am I just totally missing something? This is a very new thing - but I also wasn't using battery power very much before. I'm sure that's not the issue but what is?
Now it's shutting off randomly. Sometimes I'm in the act of setting it down and it turns off. Sometimes it's just been sitting on the table with nobody touching it and it turns off. Sometimes in the middle of a transmission. Since the screen is off when there's no transmission (I'm trying to save battery), I often don't even realize it's shut down until I notice I haven't heard anything in awhile and I try moving the dial or hitting a key. Many times it's turned itself off. It's not hot and it's working properly for scanning when it's on. It's got good battery power with the brand new battery - currently at 3.63V.
Just now it had been working fine and it happened again. I picked it up to check a setting and...it's turned off again. No warning, no saving to sd card message, nothing. Just a blank screen and I have to hit the power button to turn it back on. I just powered it back up, the lists loaded and I hit the menu key to check the setting and it shut down again before I even got the settings selected. It doesn't do or say anything, it's just suddenly off. I powered it on again, got into settings, turned off the flash w/backlight off setting and was checking the other backlight settings and it shut off again while I was in there. It's happening more and more frequently, I think.
I know I need to send it in for repair for the ports - and the dial that's not landing on options properly - but is this now another thing I need to add to the repair order? Or am I just totally missing something? This is a very new thing - but I also wasn't using battery power very much before. I'm sure that's not the issue but what is?
