9500IX falses due to Brake preview, active cruise

[9500ier]

the manual does state the laser CAN BE locked out. look on page 9. X , K, or laser can be locked out.

Sorry I was mistaken. Well, I just read the manual for the 9500i, 9500ix, 9500ci. Here is what I found:

9500i just says you can lock out falses in the manual and doesn't speak to the bands.

9500ix says you can true-lock X, K, and laser, but says nothing about the bands for auto-lock.

9500ci says you can true-lock X, K and laser, but Auto-lock ONLY locks X and K.
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P.S. It's safe to assume I might of overlooked something.

[TSi+WRX]

the manual does state the laser CAN BE locked out. look on page 9. X , K, or laser can be locked out.

Sorry I was mistaken. Well, I just read the manual for the 9500i, 9500ix, 9500ci. Here is what I found:

9500i just says you can lock out falses in the manual and doesn't speak to the bands.

9500ix says you can true-lock X, K, and laser, but says nothing about the bands for auto-lock.

9500ci says you can true-lock X, K and laser, but Auto-lock ONLY locks X and K.
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P.S. It's safe to assume I might of overlooked something.

^ +1 - my apologies, too, Christian - I based my assumptions off of the 9500i.

That's amazing.....the ability to lock out a laser alert.

I wonder why, exactly, this has been instituted - I would imagine that *any* laser alert to be as threatening as a Ka-alert..... But at the same time, I also know of scenarios, overseas, where the use of laser-based traffic monitoring devices making daily-living with such detectors/jammers near-unbearable, unless one was able to lock-out a particular alert.

Very interesting, and I thank you (both) for the correction!

[ PS: Christian - mod-list for your vehicle? ]

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I ship back my GX65 for the same reason(laser falsing when honking the horn).In the same car,same spot on the windshield and the same situation my RX65 remained silence.My car has diesel engine show i have much less electric noise than the petrol engines.Although i'm overseas the last days i make a lot of calls to Bell to make sure that my GX65 will be like the others after the fix.Here is my last dialog with Dan:
Me:Good morning Dan, I'm Nick Stathopoulos from Europe (Athens,Greece).I ship back my GX 65 with serial number BG000813 because it was laser falsing when i was honking the horn.The modifications that you make to fix this issue affect the laser receiving?My concern, would be that i will lose laser detection capability - either in-part, or even in-whole.Should i worry about that?
Dan: The modifications that will be made will not lower the laser sensitivity to any degree that should make you concerned.
Me: Thank you very much Dan!
Dan: you are very welcome.

nick, I believe that your specific fix may be different and/or may not necessarily address, specifically, laser RECEPTION, but rather, suppression of line-noise, electrical, that's causing the falsing.

In this respect, it would be much more akin to the various measures undertaken here:

http://www.radardetector.net/forums/...er-alerts.html

- instead of increasing shielding around the actual laser sensor, which was what was done to my friend's 9500i, as it failed to respond to the troubleshooting methods seen in the above reference post.

[Christian655321]

UPDATE

updated unit to version 1.1, loaded DB of most current RLC's

was parked, turned on car, false laser alert - was gonig 0 MPH cruise control off. continued and did not stop --- muted then alert went away and came back every 10 seconds.

turned off, turned back on while driving, same thing

turned off, turned back on same thing, could not get it to stop.

parked car went inside.


came out, turned on unit false laser immediately, while parked in garage. started driving laser went off, GPS failed to get a lock for 15 minutes while driving in open sky

turned off unit while driving - turned back on - GPS lock with in 10 seconds , no false laser - worked fine. WTF is going on.

called passport/escort they suggested exchanging to see if it happens again. I have a hunch it might be the firmware update to 1.1 but they claim no.

they will not reveal what changes are to be made to units that are sent in for this issue.

TO BE CONTUINUED!!!!

sold my solo2 that was always trusty and never had this issue. oh well.

[TSi+WRX]

Strange......

Please do keep us updated!

[Christian655321]

omw to exchange the unit ,

originally after I purchased the unit I installed it right away, turned it on, had no issues driving home for 10 miles. turned on several times with car paked, no false laser signals. Then I updated the unit with my laptop, and problems started so I want to eliminate the firmware update as a possible culprit to these issues.

I will also contact my buddies this weekend who do not have ICC (same car) and test it out in their cars.



the saga continues...

[Destruckt]

ahhhh That's explain why some time on the freeway I got laser detection even for a long period of time, like 20 seconds... Somebody probably had the laser activated around and my 9500ix when off.

[Christian655321]

major breakthrough

1. it is not a defective detector, however it may be that it is too sensitive to interferance from the dash /nav

2.when the detector is mounted directly under the rear view mirror (hanging off of it with custom mount) it picks up a signal somehow from the dash itself and sets off a false positive

3. when mounted with the windshield mount that it came with (unit is about 6 inches closer to the windshield) no false laser signals because the reciever is more forward of the nav display

4. something on the G37 and probably most nissan/infiniti vehicles equiped with a NAV system falses this detector.

I tested by covering the dash with the case the radar unit came in right above the nav screen, flase laser immediatley stopped. I uncovered the dash, false came back right away.

so, it looks like unless i can mount this unit in a way the reciver does not hit the dash i will be returning it and getting something else.

so if you drive infiniti / nissan please test for yourself, aim the detector at your nav screens and see if you get a laser alert.

will keep you posted on if this unit is mountable at all directly underneath the rearview.

[Christian655321]

I posted my fix here for those of you having this issue.

http://www.radardetector.net/forums/...er-9500ix.html

[TSi+WRX]

4. something on the G37 and probably most nissan/infiniti vehicles equiped with a NAV system falses this detector.

Not just the 9500-series, but most of the good in-vehicle detectors can see this problem:

http://www.radardetector.net/forums/...er-alerts.html
( REF: my post, on page 11 ).

I do apologize for not having thought of this before - it should've been immediately obvious to me, in knowing what I do of the vehicle you drive....but when you said what you did about the cruise-control and Preview Braking, well, it took away all the attention.

[Christian655321]

well, I gave it my best but it pissed me off today so I took the damn thing back and got a refund.

my mount is just to far back, unless I tilt the rearview to an awkward position pointing up and then the mirror beomcomes useless to see out of.

oh well, least I saved 500.

I spent 5 dollars at chic fillet, 77.00 on a XM renewl and 44.00 on the pc game left 4 dead. i fell better now, good luck to all of you that are keeping the 9500ix and have the false laser issue. will revist this when they release a new model.