*sigh... huge let down w/ 9500CI.

[thestaton]

This morning I had a monumental alert 4 MILES forward facing K band. Only to see it all go down the drain when the MOFO auto locked out the freq for the area. I drive this area 6 times a week so now I'm screwed until they run K band around the area again, where I can hopefully unlock it.

Is there anyway to unlock an area if there is nothing transmitting?

I'm so pissed.

I have a feeling it locked it out because the Kentucky DOT had the centipede project going where they had numerous cars pulled over, all running K band. So ole 9500CI thinks I'm suddenly in a shopping area rolling 75MPH.

FCK!

[MEM-TEK]

You got an old 700MHz cell phone? My older 700MHz cell phone emits a continuous X band signal when it is powered off but plugged into its car charger. You can use the X band signal from the cell phone in the locked out area in order to get a displayed alert, and then you can manually unlock that location.

Or, here is another way to do it by taking advantage of a 9500ci firmware bug:

Temporarily turn off the automatic Truelock feature. Drive to any shopping center with a K band door opener. While your 9500ci is alerting to K band, enter program mode and turn off K band. Then momentarily press the power button to exit program mode. Here is the bug: When you turn off a radar band which the 9500ci is alerting to, then the alert gets "hung" in the processor and the 9500ci will continue to alert indefinitely until you power cycle the 9500ci. So, using this bug to generate a "hung" K band alert, you can now drive to the locked out location and, since the 9500ci is continuously alerting to K band, you should be able to clear that locked out location. Once you have done this, drive 1 mile and then power cycle the 9500ci and enter program mode to reenable K band again.



EDIT: I forgot to mention that you would want to try to find a K band door opener which is emitting a 24.15MHz signal.

[Retaliation]

Or, here is another way to do it by taking advantage of a 9500ci firmware bug:

Temporarily turn off the automatic Truelock feature. Drive to any shopping center with a K band door opener. While your 9500ci is alerting to K band, enter program mode and turn off K band. Then momentarily press the power button to exit program mode. Here is the bug: When you turn off a radar band which the 9500ci is alerting to, then the alert gets "hung" in the processor and the 9500ci will continue to alert indefinitely until you power cycle the 9500ci. So, using this bug to generate a "hung" K band alert, you can now drive to the locked out location and, since the 9500ci is continuously alerting to K band, you should be able to clear that locked out location. Once you have done this, drive 1 mile and then power cycle the 9500ci and enter program mode to reenable K band again.

Thats a brilliant trick... MEM-TEK, the evil genius.

Hope that works for you, Staton.

[AirMoore]

MEM-Teks idea is just plain unreal! Hope it works!



If it doesn't:
Another thing to try: Go into the area, and fire up an extremely leaky detector (if you have a Cobra left over from GOL testing... not sure who takes those heaps). That might very well set-off the K band on the 9500ci... as Cobras are known to set off either K/Ka on Escorts.

[MMeteor]

Ahhhh......the "catch 22" of the autolock feature.

I haven't kept up lately on the autolock feature, is it still the same?

Say the supersensitive ci locks out the K band door opener at the supermarket and the strip mall across the street.
Then Mr. LEO sets up down the road where the speed limit changes from 45 to 30 where the strip mall begins.........Are you going to get an alert????

For Ka band, the ci kicks some @ss either way.

[focalcivic]

You got an old 700MHz cell phone? My older 700MHz cell phone emits a continuous X band signal when it is powered off but plugged into its car charger. You can use the X band signal from the cell phone in the locked out area in order to get a displayed alert, and then you can manually unlock that location.

Or, here is another way to do it by taking advantage of a 9500ci firmware bug:

Temporarily turn off the automatic Truelock feature. Drive to any shopping center with a K band door opener. While your 9500ci is alerting to K band, enter program mode and turn off K band. Then momentarily press the power button to exit program mode. Here is the bug: When you turn off a radar band which the 9500ci is alerting to, then the alert gets "hung" in the processor and the 9500ci will continue to alert indefinitely until you power cycle the 9500ci. So, using this bug to generate a "hung" K band alert, you can now drive to the locked out location and, since the 9500ci is continuously alerting to K band, you should be able to clear that locked out location. Once you have done this, drive 1 mile and then power cycle the 9500ci and enter program mode to reenable K band again.



EDIT: I forgot to mention that you would want to try to find a K band door opener which is emitting a 24.15MHz signal.

I heard you have to do this driving backwards...........ok kidding


Seriously, that sounds complicated

[djrams80]

The 9500ci's auto-unlock feature should take care of this problem all by itself. Just be careful in that particular area for a while.

[crazyVOLVOrob]

Sorry to hear that Mike but I could of sworn Escort said they took care of that problem of real alerts being locked out...I guess they lied

[swarga]

This morning I had a monumental alert 4 MILES forward facing K band. Only to see it all go down the drain when the MOFO auto locked out the freq for the area. I drive this area 6 times a week so now I'm screwed until they run K band around the area again, where I can hopefully unlock it.

Is there anyway to unlock an area if there is nothing transmitting?

I'm so pissed.

I have a feeling it locked it out because the Kentucky DOT had the centipede project going where they had numerous cars pulled over, all running K band. So ole 9500CI thinks I'm suddenly in a shopping area rolling 75MPH.

FCK!

Ah, so now you admit that TrueLock sucks?



But seriously, Detector Tools should allow you to delete an erroneous lockout record like this.

[upstatedoc]

Ah, so now you admit that TrueLock sucks?

^^ As my two-year-old would say, "Ohhhh Boy!"