When I first got the radio, I almost sent it back since, you know, there didn't seem to be a way to program it with the Sentinel software. Formatted the SD card a couple times. Finally realized that you can't switch between XP and 7 even if you try to get fancy and store the DB in Dropbox (each says the SD card is corrupt if you tried to do anything to the SD card on the other OS plus the path to the DB seems to be included in a config file, which is another problem).
Fine. I stick to XP on the old (very hot) laptop and finally, FINALLY get the damn thing programmed. Yay!
I get busy in and out of work and don't have a chance to play any more until today.
Hook it up to the ol' XP laptop ... and Sentinel hangs when I try to connect. In fact, XP won't see the SD (as D: ). If I start over sometimes XP will see the card but only to tempt me in Windows Explorer - which hangs if I try to open it. Remember, I gave up trying to do anything with it on W7 because of the corruption thing.
I can see the radio in the USB device tree, but the disk is AWOL.
Except in the scanner. The scanner see it and reads from it just fine.
I put the SD card into a card reader and ... corrupted. Big surprise. Formatted it again and did a Clear User Data as the radio instructed me to.
First thing I try to do is update the firmware (I don't even know if there is new firmware, but if there isn't, it will tell me). It appears there is and, after timing out the first time, it finishes. I go to unmount (eject) the radio as I am instructed and ... XP says "An error was encountered". OK, so ... Push and hold power without disconnecting the cable? After a few beeps it just sits at USB Storage. I try to write to the radio, it finishes ... and there is nothing there. Try again and now my profile and FLs are there.
What a pain.
Ignoring Electras, I've had BC200XLT, BC3000XLT, BC780XLT, BC250D, BCD396T, BCD396XT, BCD996XT (2) -- so not a newbie -- and this is easily and by far the most disappointing Uniden scanner I've ever had.
Fine. I stick to XP on the old (very hot) laptop and finally, FINALLY get the damn thing programmed. Yay!
I get busy in and out of work and don't have a chance to play any more until today.
Hook it up to the ol' XP laptop ... and Sentinel hangs when I try to connect. In fact, XP won't see the SD (as D: ). If I start over sometimes XP will see the card but only to tempt me in Windows Explorer - which hangs if I try to open it. Remember, I gave up trying to do anything with it on W7 because of the corruption thing.
I can see the radio in the USB device tree, but the disk is AWOL.
Except in the scanner. The scanner see it and reads from it just fine.
I put the SD card into a card reader and ... corrupted. Big surprise. Formatted it again and did a Clear User Data as the radio instructed me to.
First thing I try to do is update the firmware (I don't even know if there is new firmware, but if there isn't, it will tell me). It appears there is and, after timing out the first time, it finishes. I go to unmount (eject) the radio as I am instructed and ... XP says "An error was encountered". OK, so ... Push and hold power without disconnecting the cable? After a few beeps it just sits at USB Storage. I try to write to the radio, it finishes ... and there is nothing there. Try again and now my profile and FLs are there.
What a pain.
Ignoring Electras, I've had BC200XLT, BC3000XLT, BC780XLT, BC250D, BCD396T, BCD396XT, BCD996XT (2) -- so not a newbie -- and this is easily and by far the most disappointing Uniden scanner I've ever had.