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Xts-5000 FAIL 01/92

Thread starter marros216
Start date Feb 2, 2021
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bricked? motorola xts5000

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marros216

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Feb 2, 2021

Working on a xts5000 that displays Fail 01/92 and beeps immediately when powered on. This radio has been programmed before with no problem. The pin cover on the connector cable popped off the programming cable, so I put tape on to keep in place. Radio could still read no prob, but occasionally when writing I would get an communication error, no problem just held radio with my hand on connector and wrote the original code plug back to radio. Was flash upgrading yesterday, and got an communication error, radio wouldn't take codeplug back so force wrote new code plug with depot, it took new code plug then attempted flash upgrade, error while flashing, got fail 01/92 again, turned radio off and on, now it won't take new or old code plug, or firmware? Does anyone know a way to manually get the radio into programming mode, or a way to fix that I can't figure out?