XG-100M Bricked?

[AF1UD]

Hey Guys,

I've had a XG-100M which has done nothing but give me problems. In my previous car I had to write the codeplug 3 times to get it to take. Over the weekend I reflashed the burn, boot, and firmware and now it's stuck in program mode. Jumping has been unsuccessful.

Anyone know what I can do to fix it? Or should I just keep it for parts?

Thanks!

 

[gdsteele]

Is it CH100 head or a 721?

 

[AF1UD]

Ch-721 with latest firmware. Just says program.

 

[gdsteele]

There are serial port commands available on the 100M. They were posted in another thread. One of the commands might help.

 

[FireRescue1075]

Try a new basic mission plan, see if it resolves the issue.

 

[wa8pyr]

Try a new basic mission plan, see if it resolves the issue.

Good call. I inherited a few squirrelly Harris radios back in my working days. Built a new codeplug, which cleared it right up.

 

[redbeard]

List all the current firmware versions in it right now, including control head.

And yes a brand new basic one analog channel test plan made from scratch in RPM. No reading out editing and writing back. What version RPM/2 are you using also.

 

[ElroyJetson]

XG-100M with CH-721 does not do mission plans. Mission plans are a CH-100 thing only.
If that's not true then I've been consistently lied to for quite some time.

I have the same radio and CH. Never found mission plan support in it.

 

[KC2TJS]

I recently picked up a used Harris radio that was experiencing the same problem. It took me several tries to fix it. But putting in a new code plug fixed the problem. Good luck!

 

[prcguy]

XG-100M with CH-721 does not do mission plans. Mission plans are a CH-100 thing only.
If that's not true then I've been consistently lied to for quite some time.

I have the same radio and CH. Never found mission plan support in it.

Harris calls a code plug a "mission plan" and although the XG-100M with CH-721 only holds one the XG-100P and XG-100M with CH-100 can store lots of them. Its still a mission plan no matter how many the radio can store.

 

[ElroyJetson]

I always heard it as "mission plan' means multiple codeplugs stored in the same radio, that the user can select between.

Not arguing, just clarifying what I learned it as.

 

[wa8pyr]

Harris calls a code plug a "mission plan" and although the XG-100M with CH-721 only holds one the XG-100P and XG-100M with CH-100 can store lots of them. Its still a mission plan no matter how many the radio can store.

Actually, I learned that single codeplugs are called "personalities" (I still called them codeplugs, which drove our Harris dealer and Harris TAC bananas). Mission Plans only came along when you started having radios which could contain more than one personality.

My predecessor at my last job before retirement had scads of personality files squirreled away with little categorization; he also had multiple LID numbers for quite a few radios, because the person that a radio was issued to worked for multiple agencies; one LID for the full-time job, and another LID for each part-time job. I put a stop to that nonsense very quickly; one radio, one LID. Took me months to get that mess cleaned up.

 

[TDR-94]

Mission plan was a HARRIS RF Division term for the tactical military tadio programming files. The XG-100P was born from the RF-1033M and the same division. The term was also carried over to the XG-100M and then XL series up until recently, where it appears L3H has gone back to referring to them as personalities again for the public safety radios.

 

[surfacemount]

You beat me to it. I was thumbing through documentation trying to find something to cut and paste.

 

[merlin]

I have a few XG-100Ms, when I get a new2me, I first bench test it, upgrade firmware, then work on a personality.
These are very hard to brick unless you are didling with firmware and something goes wrong.
A bad personality, the rado just won't work, but programming a good personality will fix that.
Naming is irrelevant, Harris calls these personalities, the military counterpart calls them mission plans, codeplug comes from Motorola, but they all are the same thing.
The CH-100 can store 10 personalities and loads one into the radio by selection. the touch screen makes these very expensive heads.
You might try a generic test personality and check the radio for it operation.
Using terminal commands is fine for the technically oriented persons but of little use for the plain user.

 

[redbeard]

While everyone argues the pedantry of what the programming is called, @AF1UD have you tried any of our advice yet?