Stupid portable question: It beeps twice.

Gerbil · Post by **Gerbil** » Thu Feb 12, 2004 2:42 am

Yeah, i've been using vertex's for way too long...

A guy i work with brings me a pair of UHF P1225's he bought on ebay. When you turn one of them on, it beeps twice. Same pitch, typical poweron beep.

The other beeps once, like i would expect it to do.

Umm. Whats up with this radio?

EKLB · Post by **EKLB** » Thu Feb 12, 2004 4:20 am

Sounds to me like a perfectly normal radio with the exception the radio with the two beeps is telling you low battery by the to beep alert.

This will happen every so often when the radio is just standing by and everytime after a transmit.

Yes many P1225 portables will allow transmitting then do the two beep low battery alert.

Id swap batteries or put the radio on a known good 7.5 volt power supply and see if the beeps go away.

If not then you may have a different problem = But im thinking not at this point.

Could be defective battery or a bad on/off sw in the radio not allowing good electrical contact for power needed posibly even dirty battery to radio contacts that simply need cleaning.

These are just a few of your possibilities to consider.

You big dumby = you should have stayed with the VERTEX cause now being exposed to Motorola you will start drinking if you dont already.

The big dumby was meant in a humorous way .

EKLB

Tony Soprano · Post by **Tony Soprano** » Thu Feb 12, 2004 5:13 am

The double beep, same pitch on a P1225 indicates that the battery voltage has exceeded normal (7.5V) full charge. Some batteries will go over 8V after charging, and will cause this double-beep when turned on. When the voltage falls a little, this will cease. This is completely weird, but normal.

Swap the batteries, see if it follows the battery. And it may not, because good batteries straight out of the charger will cause this.

ExKa|iBuR · Post by **ExKa|iBuR** » Thu Feb 12, 2004 7:22 am

I doubt it would be related, but I recently re-cased an MTX2000 portable, and every time I turned the radio on, it would make the usual power-on beep, but it would also make a bonk, as if you pushed an unprogrammed button.

I took it apart, checked everything (so I thought), and put it back together - no dice.

What happened was the emergency button had somehow managed to get pushed down when re-casing it, although this wasn't visibly evident from the outside of the radio. Since the Emergency Button was set to Niusence (sp?) delete, it just bonked at me.

-Mike

w7com · Post by **w7com** » Thu Feb 12, 2004 11:31 am

I've found that on MT1000s I get a double beep when the DTMF front is on the radio.

kg4lmt · Post by **kg4lmt** » Thu Feb 12, 2004 12:08 pm

I have several UHF p1225's with the 2 button fronts on them and some SP50's with 2 button fronts. They all beep on power-up. The P1225's beep twice and the SP50's beep once, all have good condition batteries. Isn't it just a self test beep similar to the MTS or just a beep letting you know the radio is on?

Charles

Gerbil · Post by **Gerbil** » Thu Feb 12, 2004 12:55 pm

whoever said the problem would follow th battery is correct. i swapped batteries between the two, and the other one has the problem now.

Its not a low battery tone, i know what those sound like, its a second tone, the exact same pitch and length of the poweron beep, immeditly folllowing the power-on beep.

Post by **wavetar** » Thu Feb 12, 2004 2:51 pm

Gerbil wrote:whoever said the problem would follow th battery is correct. i swapped batteries between the two, and the other one has the problem now.

Its not a low battery tone, i know what those sound like, its a second tone, the exact same pitch and length of the poweron beep, immeditly folllowing the power-on beep.

You sound like you're still confused. Re-read Tony Soprano's post, as he explained why it's giving the double beep.

Todd

Gerbil · Post by **Gerbil** » Thu Feb 12, 2004 3:22 pm

no, he's right. He said it might follow the battery, and it did.

i was just telling whoever said it was a low battery beep, that it wasnt.

Post by **firemed9** » Thu Feb 12, 2004 4:21 pm

That is a common problem I have found with the P1225's with aftermarket batteries. I have yet to repeat it with any other radio.

Gerbil · Post by **Gerbil** » Thu Feb 12, 2004 4:37 pm

on careful observation of the two.

the battery that beeps twice is aftermarket.
the other one is oem.

i dont know why i didnt notice it before.

Victor Xray · Post by **Victor Xray** » Thu Feb 12, 2004 5:04 pm

Tony's comment is probably true too, but I've got a fleet of P1225LS that double-beep only when SYS SCAN is activated. Turn off SYS SCAN and they beep only once on power up.

Edit 8-18-05: Don't know what I was smoking back when I made the post above... but all my 1225-LS' perform exactly as Tony described; with or without SYS SCAN on. They all double-beep fresh out of the charger, then only single-beep later in the day.

phonegunner · Post by **phonegunner** » Sat Feb 14, 2004 8:20 am

Per the Users Guide for the P1225 under "Battery Status Indicator":

When the battery is fully charged, a double high-pitched tone sounds at radio startup. (100% charged)

Absolutely normal operation.

Ted...

Gerbil · Post by **Gerbil** » Sat Feb 14, 2004 11:17 am

haha. users guide. why didnt i think of that.

Max-trac · Post by **Max-trac** » Sun Aug 15, 2004 9:03 pm

What about a beep-boop-boop-boop on power up?

Could someone post the complete list of codes?

Then we could get them to batlabs.
Thanks!

jjc319 · Post by **jjc319** » Tue Oct 19, 2004 7:20 am

I have a similar problem. When the unit powers on, it gives the normal ok tone followed by a single lower pitch tone. THe unit has a good battery and still does it off of a power supply. Anyone have an idea of the meaning of the second tone?

Stupid portable question: It beeps twice.

Stupid portable question: It beeps twice.

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