I have a problem, when I turn my XTS300 on it displays self test in the front screen and then shuts off. I thought maybe it was the battery but they are fully charged and work on another radio ok. I left the radio in the charger over night and now it just shuts off. I thought possible the screen display would have broke but I have no audio and none of the buttons work or the PTT button, so I am assuming its just shutting off. Its an 800mhz radio. If anybody can tell me what might be causing this or how to fix it, it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance
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xts3000 not working
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jhooten
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An XTS3000 that has been inhibited will do that.
RocketNJ
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What trunked system were you listening to? Sounds like it affiliated then the system admin inhibited the radio as jhooten said.
I was listening to theNJ state police and philly fire but the PD was what I last listened too. Any way to fix the radio or make it so it wont affiliate with there system.
RocketNJ
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You'd have to program the radio for Smartnet and not Smartzone, then set it to affiliate on PTT instead of automatic.
If you have an archive of the radio try dumping it back in.
If you have an archive of the radio try dumping it back in.
ok thanks RocketNJ----I do have a file saved on my computer, so I will try that that and let you guys know how I made out---thanks again for the help.
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Once inhibited, the radio will not work until it receives a cancel inhibit command............
Well thank you everybody once again for your advise, I am happy to report I was able to download my saved versioninto the radio and made someneccesary changes and now it works great. Thanks again.
RocketNJ
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ok, make absolutely SURE the radio will NOT affiliate or you will have the same problem again.
jwood
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greenthumb said:
Unless you access the radio with RSS, it will be fine....
Motorola likes to scare people with their big bad "inhibit" word.
Even if they made provisions in the RSS so that the inhibited flag was not restored to "disabled" when an archived codeplug was dumped back in (easy to do, just have RSS ignore this address when parsing the codeplug), there's always lab and the brute force method of dumping the old codeplug back in - bit for bit - as it originally was.
Forget about fixing an inhibited XTS2500/5000 with lab though. I have heard success stories from those who've cloned an old codeplug back in from a different radio via the clone menu.
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Even if they made provisions in the RSS so that the inhibited flag was not restored to "disabled" when an archived codeplug was dumped back in (easy to do, just have RSS ignore this address when parsing the codeplug), there's always lab and the brute force method of dumping the old codeplug back in - bit for bit - as it originally was.
Forget about fixing an inhibited XTS2500/5000 with lab though. I have heard success stories from those who've cloned an old codeplug back in from a different radio via the clone menu.
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Shaun said:
So far so good on fixing the high-tier radios with a good codeplug, it can still be done. But, it's only going to get harder. The new low-tier CP/CM series for instance will NOT allow you to dump a good codeplug in. The only way I've found to uninhibit them is via console command. It's only a matter time before they follow suit with their entire product line.
Todd
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ON mistake my Astro Saber must have affiliated with a system and the radio was inhibited. I tried to go in a fix it and just reflash the old codeplug in like I did with the Xts3000 and worked, except this time it came up with a warning about radio being inhibited and having to have system administrator let me back in or a depot tool. Any suggestions on how to fix this problem so I can set the radio not to affiliate, or is this just a big paper weight now. Thanks for any help.
ON mistake my Astro Saber must have affiliated with a system and the radio was inhibited. I tried to go in a fix it and just reflash the old codeplug in like I did with the Xts3000 and worked, except this time it came up with a warning about radio being inhibited and having to have system administrator let me back in or a depot tool. Any suggestions on how to fix this problem so I can set the radio not to affiliate, or is this just a big paper weight now. Thanks for any help.
Does the software allow you to change the serial number of the unit? Perhaps that units # is now flagged in the system.
astro saber
No the software will not let me make any changes to the seriel number. Yeah thats what I am afraid of that I am banned now from the system
No the software will not let me make any changes to the seriel number. Yeah thats what I am afraid of that I am banned now from the system
I know that the "lab" versions of some of the motorola software will let you change the serial #, if you aren't using it already you might want to try that if you can get ahold of it.
Re: Astro Saber
Hi, I'm going to explain to you how to fix your radio, but you also shouldn't own these radios. You don't understand the technology enough. Sorry, not flaming you - but you're the only guy I know who keeps getting his radios inhibited. It's like you want it to happen or something? You don't belong on the system, so get off - ESPECIALLY WITH YOUR AFFILIATING RADIO.
Think of the codeplug as a database file. The RSS is a database editor. M used to automatically "fix" the bit in your database file (codeplug) that gets inhibited when your radio is targeted and killed. Now with newer versions of RSS and CPS, the software has been revised - it no longer fixes the inhibited bit in your codeplug. It simply ignores this address, and leaves the data as-is, even if programming from a previously good codeplug which is saved to disk.
The only way you can fix the radio on your own, is to take a previous KNOWN GOOD CODEPLUG, and use depot R03.00.02 (dated 10/24/94) to bang it in there. Depot doesn't give a **** about whether your codeplug is inhibited. It doesn't unpack the codeplug (it's like a zip file, that doesn't get unzipped). It just slams it in there. Every last bit.
Sorry, can't tell you where to get depot, or send it to you. I don't own any copies of depot. I've just read posts on batlabs about people who've used depot to do things. Those bad hackers!
Your radio will now be fixed. But it's probably time to get another radio.. maybe a scanner? Or put the radio away for a while, and read batlabs for a year or so. Ask lots of questions. Get educated. But don't put that radio on a system again.
wacker13 said:
Hi, I'm going to explain to you how to fix your radio, but you also shouldn't own these radios. You don't understand the technology enough. Sorry, not flaming you - but you're the only guy I know who keeps getting his radios inhibited. It's like you want it to happen or something? You don't belong on the system, so get off - ESPECIALLY WITH YOUR AFFILIATING RADIO.
Think of the codeplug as a database file. The RSS is a database editor. M used to automatically "fix" the bit in your database file (codeplug) that gets inhibited when your radio is targeted and killed. Now with newer versions of RSS and CPS, the software has been revised - it no longer fixes the inhibited bit in your codeplug. It simply ignores this address, and leaves the data as-is, even if programming from a previously good codeplug which is saved to disk.
The only way you can fix the radio on your own, is to take a previous KNOWN GOOD CODEPLUG, and use depot R03.00.02 (dated 10/24/94) to bang it in there. Depot doesn't give a **** about whether your codeplug is inhibited. It doesn't unpack the codeplug (it's like a zip file, that doesn't get unzipped). It just slams it in there. Every last bit.
Sorry, can't tell you where to get depot, or send it to you. I don't own any copies of depot. I've just read posts on batlabs about people who've used depot to do things. Those bad hackers!
Your radio will now be fixed. But it's probably time to get another radio.. maybe a scanner? Or put the radio away for a while, and read batlabs for a year or so. Ask lots of questions. Get educated. But don't put that radio on a system again.
Astro Saber
Thanks shaun. It actually different radios and this is only the second time its happened with a different system. The 800mhz is easy to fix I can just select disabel and it doesnt affiliate. The problem I have is with the 500mhz, and trying to have them not affilaite I guess thats impossible cause you need to use all there frequencies unlike the 800mhz radios. Yeah I dont know where to get a depot tool either. But anyway thanks for the info and the advise.
Thanks shaun. It actually different radios and this is only the second time its happened with a different system. The 800mhz is easy to fix I can just select disabel and it doesnt affiliate. The problem I have is with the 500mhz, and trying to have them not affilaite I guess thats impossible cause you need to use all there frequencies unlike the 800mhz radios. Yeah I dont know where to get a depot tool either. But anyway thanks for the info and the advise.
If it's 500Mhz then why did you correctly setup the transmit portion of the frequency definitions? Change those and it won't transmit where it is supposed to. VHF and UHF need both receive and transmit defined independently so you or someone else programmed in the correct values which you should never do when passively receiving.wacker13 said:
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