I appreciate the reply, but missing my point a little... Imagine buying a new car from GM or Ford, and every time you go to start it - it wont.. then someone suggests that changing the starter motor will fix it because they (GM/Ford) use ****ty cheap ones instead of good quality ones... OK so this problem goes ON and On and ON and not one consumer actually does anything about it but simply suggests go out and buy a new starter motor at your own expense...?? This is the same cycle I see over and over with Whistler products... every one who owns one that faults, realises how crap they are then makes lame excuses to justify the poor build quality and product development and design. It's about time that Whistler 'lifts it's game', fixes the issues - fires whoever is responsible in product development and hires someone who is actually interested in Scanners and willing to sort out all the problems and make a good quality product...
Whistler, if your reading these post's don't screw up a potentially fantastic product with continued problems.. even your software is slow, backward, and full of glitches.. it's 2018 and its like something developed in 1990. There are two major Scanner manufacturers in the world, why piss away your chance at creating something that consumers would be proud to own.... what does your president want to do? Make America great again? Not with this crap you won't....
These scanners are not for the noobs not willing to learn,
ONE size doesn't fit all, and if you use computers long enough you would know that,
Yes the stock generic cards suck,
The majority of usb connection problems are user errors or created by Microsoft windows security and its updates or bad usb cables, or incompatible USB chipsets in your pc, Microsoft refuses to recognize the 3rd party driver for the comport on whistler scanners...it is not whistlers chip, it's one they sourced out and now have to live with it in these models forever.
The software is not slow, if it is update you PC, the usb connection is slower than tar in antartica but that is only needed for the clock and firmware updates, otherwise you should already know that a sd card reader is 10x faster then the usb cable for data and library transfers. Hopefully whistler will use a more compatible chip in future models.
I worked in the auto repair industry and they also do software updates to fix all kinds of issues that may our in part of the world but not another, in addition they put out tech bulletins and recalls to fix a variety of issues. EVERY SINGLE auto manufacturer DOES THIS, I have fixed new cars with 1000mi on them for thing like blown motors,blown transmissions, blown fuses, electrical shorts, squeaks , rattles, waterleaks , wind noises,brake problems, suspension problems and more.
Most of the whistler scanners are fine out of the box, However they are NOT plug and play, they must be dialed in, more for some people then others due to thousands of variables such as location, to what you use on your PC and the systems your trying to monitor to name a few.
I;m sorry you had so much trouble getting yours to work but your not an exception and it sounds like your patients has warn out.....but your connection problems should be directed at MICROSOFT.
It came up ok after I did the card dance...
