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XPR XPR 6550 Loud Screeching noise

ynakamura

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Hello all, I have a Mototrbo XPR 6550, Firmware is R01.12.17 with CP Ver. 13.02.03
My radio was listening to a conversation open channel and then the radio has this very loud screeching sound, and it happens time to time,
but you never know when it will do it.
Is there a fix on this? I tried Motorola and it is difficult on their site.
 
buddrousa

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Is this a transmitted sound like a tone?
Is this a high pitched sound that will happen when the volume is turned up? If so then it is a cold solder joint causing the radio to be FONIC.
 
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Sounds very much like the issue in the thread you've previously replied to (last month). Sorry, I don't have the firmware that fixed that particular issue but hopefully someone else around here still does since I'm certain that will fix it.
 
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ynakamura said:
Hello all, I have a Mototrbo XPR 6550, Firmware is R01.12.17 with CP Ver. 13.02.03
My radio was listening to a conversation open channel and then the radio has this very loud screeching sound, and it happens time to time,
but you never know when it will do it.
Is there a fix on this? I tried Motorola and it is difficult on their site.
Click to expand...
FW 1.17.08 fixes that.
 
ynakamura

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buddrousa said:
Is this a transmitted sound like a tone?
Is this a high pitched sound that will happen when the volume is turned up? If so then it is a cold solder joint causing the radio to be FONIC.
Click to expand...
This is a hi pitched sound that that just suddenly come on while the radio is on not transmitting, just on quiet, and then all of a sudden, the screaming hi pitch sound just come out of the radio. This happens without notice just it decides to scream and I have to turn off the radio and reboot it.
 
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ynakamura said:
This is a hi pitched sound that that just suddenly come on while the radio is on not transmitting, just on quiet, and then all of a sudden, the screaming hi pitch sound just come out of the radio. This happens without notice just it decides to scream and I have to turn off the radio and reboot it.
Click to expand...
The one time my radio did it, turning the radio off, or turning the volume to zero did nothing. I had to physically remove the battery from the radio to stop the noise. The noise hasn’t happened since I installed the new FW, but in 8 years it only happened once before installing the FW.
 
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