ElroyJetson
Getting tired of all the stupidity.
Would writing new firmware to the radio overcome the inhibit?
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Why is the Harris XL200 so popular ?
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Thats a good question. From what other people have said, Anything below XL you just need to blow in a new per file. For the XL by writing new FW to the radio, I wouldn't know. I dont have an XL or a way to inhibit a radio to check.
I'll check. Hang on.
Looks like a no go. Radio retains the inhibited status after the firmware upgrade.
ElroyJetson
Getting tired of all the stupidity.
What if you were to set a password and set the radio to erase on X failed password attempts, and force that erasure?
ElroyJetson
Getting tired of all the stupidity.
I suspect that the uninhibit command could be sent via RS232 (puTTY) commands if you knew what it was.....
BMDaug
I am licensed…
That would probably work if the radio wasn’t playing dead… you can’t get to a password screen to not enter a password correctly when inhibited. The puTTY method is the most likely, but the commands (if they exist at all) are not readily available public knowledge, so it’s once again security through obscurity if this is even an option…
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Most things Harris are very tightly locked down, even getting a legitimate copy from a dealer proves to be tricky for some people. But I can't say I blame Harris. You don't see people adding every single feature to Harris radios and selling them on ebay.
Thats true. However, I understand there are some groups out in the wild that can add features to a Harris radio. Not sure on how true this is, but it has been put out there in the forums. One thing I do like about Harris is what you said. You dont see them on ebay, with whored out feature strings (FC) like Motorola. I do know that RPM 1 and a version of 2 have been "cracked". I was shocked to hear that being Harris is good at staying locked down.
This was common with the P7100/7200 series and was done by means of swapping board chips. All the newer radios have features determined by feature strings that are directly tied to the serial number. If you input a feature string to a radio with an incompatible serial number, the radio pretty much locks up and throws an error code.
The XL series doesn't even use Feature Strings anymore.
MTS2000des
5B2_BEE00 Czar
Same here, inhibiting an XL-185p with R12 firmware results in proper brick. Sorry cloners and whackers...game over!
