HT1550 XLS Bricked?

ml3sta4 · Post by **ml3sta4** » Thu Feb 08, 2007 4:51 pm

I recently bought an HT1550 off of Ebay. It seemed to work fine when I got it. I programmed the radio and it worked fine for about 10 minutes. Then all of a sudden it started to beep and the screen was reading some kind of RC error I believe. I turned it off and then back on but now nothing happens when I turn it back on. I know its not a battery issue because I tried several batteries and I cannot read or write to the radio. Did I screw something up? Is it fixable? Im extremely frustrated. ANY help would be greatly appreciated.

HLA · Post by **HLA** » Thu Feb 08, 2007 5:14 pm

is it totally dead? do you hear a hiss in the speaker or does anything show up in the display? even if it was inhibited you would see and hear something. maybe fuse? what color is the rubber ring around the power contacts?

ml3sta4 · Post by **ml3sta4** » Thu Feb 08, 2007 8:03 pm

When I turn the radio on, if I look really hard I can see the screen come up a little bit but not enough to really see anything. The rubber ring around the power contacts is blue. Any ideas?

Andreas · Post by **Andreas** » Fri Feb 09, 2007 12:37 am

It looks like a damaged firmware or bad codeplug.
Try to reprogram the radio.If this will not work.Try to flash the radio with a lab firmware.
I have seen the problems often with the shot firmware on Waris radios.

Andreas

ml3sta4 · Post by **ml3sta4** » Fri Feb 09, 2007 9:46 pm

I can't read or write to the device....When I try to read I get an error that says "CgToDb: Unable to set value returned by transform unpackNReccgValToIndex in slot 4716 of object Dynamic Radoio"

Any idea what that means?

Post by **wavetar** » Sat Feb 10, 2007 5:44 am

It was probably a "CS error" (checksum error) or "HW error" (hardware error). Sometimes they can be cleard with a firmware upgrade, sometimes not.