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TK-2312 Master Reset?

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wheezy

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Hi guys, this is my first post, so please bear with me and I'll give a little background. I have been searching like crazy trying to learn as much as possible and decided I should finally join as this site comes up a lot when I'm searching google.

I am an offroad racer and we use TK-790H units in our race vehicles and support vehicles. We have a great company PCI program them. Very expensive units, and full of features so I let them handle making sure they are perfect; especially when our lives are on the line.

HOWEVER, I recently purchased a USED TK-2312 for when I'm just spectating to hear the what we call "Weatherman Feed" which is essentially emergency services for our races. So I literally bought an old pc with serial port the software and a cable to program it myself. It's something I've wanted to learn how to do for a long time but always feared I would mess up the very expensive 790s.

I finally got everything hooked up and talking to eachother, however, it tells me there is a password to either download or upload to it!!!! SO FRUSTRATED!

SO - Is there a way to master reset this unit? I contacted the people that sold it to me and they suggested taking it to a Kenwood dealer to have it reset. Seems kinda silly that I should have to pay to have it reset when I have the software and cable here.

ANY HELP is greatly appreciated.
 

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An update: I received a code from the seller - it was the READ code. Which allowed me to read from the radio. So at least I know it wasn't stolen; which is great news!

However, there was a different code for the WRITE. You gotta be kidding me. She didn't know what it was. However, a little hacker trick i used and was able to figure it out. Using an awesome little tool called "ShowPassword v2.6" simply hovering over the "data passwords WRITE password" (usually just shows the *****) it revealed the write password to me.

It WORKED!!! got my new radio all dialed in and ready for the races this weekend.

I'll have more questions in the future I'm sure. Thanks for letting me into your site. See you around!
 
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