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    hardly get any K or Ka

    i just had the full system plus escort 9500 antenna installed. it was checked by the installer to be working, but even in city red this thing hasn't given me one radar beep or warning in 3 days of ownership. my other car has a V1 and it beeps all the time. is the escort that much better at ignoring false alarms than the V1 (other car with blind spot devices, Walgreens doors, etc...)? i have not tried running V1 in the car at the same time because car has IR coating on glass. also- the settings on the ALP module are all default currently.

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    Try it on highway and see what happens. City modes filter out weaker signals.
    If I passed you on the right, YOU are in the wrong lane!

    2016 Encounters/Saves (to date): 33.8: 1/1 (last 4/13) | 34.7: 1/1 (last 3/11) | 35.5: 19/11 (last 8/28) | K: 1/1 (last 6/26)
    2015 Encounters/Saves: 33.8: 1/0 | 34.7: 13/4 | 35.5: 19/10 | K: 4/1 | LIDAR (sighted/hit with/save): 4/1/1

    ACTIVE CMs: Redline X, K, Ka 2,4,5,8 (highway/long trip RD) | New! V1C 3.8945 K, Ka CS, TMF2 w/YaV1 (in-town RD) | ALP Quad | BlackVue DR650GW-2CH

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    tried this too. will try to meet with friend of mine this wknd with radar gun and retest.
    Quote Originally Posted by radargeek View Post
    Try it on highway and see what happens. City modes filter out weaker signals.

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    Maybe the installer did not activate it. Pull a statistics file and email it to us.

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    thank you. i pulled the file where can i email it?

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    Serial number 4XXXXXX
    CPU Hardware version 2
    Firmware version 5.2.3
    Region North America
    Power Cycles 62
    Control Set FW version 0.0
    Control Set HW version ALPConnect BT
    Activated locks not active
    Hardware version 2
    Connected sensors
    Connected sensors (memorized)
    Connected sensors (actual) Front1, Front2, Rear1, Rear2
    Connected TX sensors (stored)
    Connected TX sensors (actual)
    Profile A
    Settings
    Audio Volume 5
    Parking detection range 9
    Silent Power-up Disabled
    Dark Mode Normal
    Parking enabled sensors
    GPS Antenna Enabled
    PDC Speed Limit NONE
    Working mode Parking and Laser Interference Defense
    Pro mode Disabled
    LID Speed Limit NONE
    Below set LID Speed Limit PDC & DLI
    Radar Antenna Model STIR+
    Radar Settings X, K, Ka
    LID Time 7 seconds
    After LID timeout Warm up
    Audio volume of Laser Alerts 5
    Audio volume of Radar Alerts 5
    Menu button short press function None
    Specific LID settings
    Vitronic Poliscan
    Speed scanner Enabled
    Unicam Camera
    Section speed control Front sensors ON
    NJL SCS
    Speed-laser Enabled
    Riegl
    Speed-laser Enabled
    Trafic Observer
    Speed scanner Enabled
    Stalker
    Speed-laser Maximum Power
    ARH TrafficSpot
    Speed scanner Disabled
    Profile B
    Settings
    Audio Volume 3
    Parking detection range 3
    Silent Power-up Disabled
    Dark Mode Normal
    Parking enabled sensors Front1, Front2, Front3, Rear1, Rear2
    GPS Antenna None
    PDC Speed Limit NONE
    Working mode Parking Detection only
    Pro mode Disabled
    LID Speed Limit NONE
    Below set LID Speed Limit PDC & DLI
    Radar Antenna Model Not Connected
    Radar Settings
    LID Time 3 seconds
    After LID timeout Warm up
    Audio volume of Laser Alerts 6
    Audio volume of Radar Alerts 6
    Menu button short press function None
    Specific LID settings
    Vitronic Poliscan
    Speed scanner Enabled
    Unicam Camera
    Section speed control Front sensors ON
    NJL SCS
    Speed-laser Enabled
    Riegl
    Speed-laser Enabled
    Trafic Observer
    Speed scanner Enabled
    Stalker
    Speed-laser Maximum Power
    ARH TrafficSpot
    Speed scanner Disabled
    Profile C
    Settings
    Audio Volume 3
    Parking detection range 3
    Silent Power-up Disabled
    Dark Mode Normal
    Parking enabled sensors Front1, Front2, Front3, Rear1, Rear2
    GPS Antenna None
    PDC Speed Limit NONE
    Working mode Parking Detection only
    Pro mode Disabled
    LID Speed Limit NONE
    Below set LID Speed Limit PDC & DLI
    Radar Antenna Model Not Connected
    Radar Settings
    LID Time 3 seconds
    After LID timeout Warm up
    Audio volume of Laser Alerts 6
    Audio volume of Radar Alerts 6
    Menu button short press function None
    Specific LID settings
    Vitronic Poliscan
    Speed scanner Enabled
    Unicam Camera
    Section speed control Front sensors ON
    NJL SCS
    Speed-laser Enabled
    Riegl
    Speed-laser Enabled
    Trafic Observer
    Speed scanner Enabled
    Stalker
    Speed-laser Maximum Power
    ARH TrafficSpot
    Speed scanner Disabled
    Alerts by Source Speed-laser
    Marksman and UltraLyte 0
    Atlanta SpeedLaser Stealth 0
    Kustom ProLaser 1 0
    Kustom ProLaser & ProLite 0
    Redspeed SpeedGuard 0
    Riegl 0
    Stalker 0
    LTI Truspeed 0
    Unipar - SL700 0
    NJL SCS 101 & 102 0
    Jenoptik – Laveg 0
    Leivtec XV 2 0
    Leivtec XV 3 0
    Laser Ally 0
    Cam S1 0
    ARH TrafficSpot 0
    Error Sensitive Lasers
    Jenoptik LaserPatrol 0
    Jenoptik TraffiPatrol XR 0
    ProLaser 2 & Atlanta SpeedLaser 0
    Stalker XLRr 0
    Speed Section Control
    Camea - IR Camera 0
    Speed Scanner
    Traffic Observer 0
    Vitronic Poliscan 0
    Radar
    K-band 0
    Ka-band 0
    X-band 0
    POP 0
    MultaRadar CD 0
    Print

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    Last edited by BestRadarDetectors; 04-27-2016 at 11:37 AM. Reason: Removed Serial Number

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    also- on antoehr note. my iphone 6 starts "scanning" once the car is turned off and the device is back inside the house. why doesn't it just disconnect? what is it scanning for anyway?

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    Quote Originally Posted by rxbg View Post
    also- on antoehr note. my iphone 6 starts "scanning" once the car is turned off and the device is back inside the house. why doesn't it just disconnect? what is it scanning for anyway?
    Because it keeps looking for the BT module to power-up to automatically reconnect to it. The app takes very little battery and if you want it to auto connect just leave the app in the background.
    City RED will ignore alerts until the signal strength reaches 5/9, In Yellow its 3/9 and this is set in the settings page: If you want full sensitivity run it in Highway Mode.
    You also never ran a factory reset so you need to run the factory reset to memorize your hardware configuration and then re-load your settings file.
    Last edited by BestRadarDetectors; 04-27-2016 at 11:38 AM.
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    so i after i got home and did the factory reset and reloaded the config.alp file (settings file) i found out from my wife that apparently it had begun working normally and was beeping at her all day while she was driving it (apparently alerting her). of course she told me this AFTER i had done the reset and reloaded the settings file. i then went for a drive and it alerted me of some x and k bands in the city setting (but not in all the areas my V1 goes crazy around).

    a- why did it spontaneously start to work before i did the reset? *the only thing i had done yesterday was do the control box update- which i did only because the FW version said 0 yesterday.

    b- after my drive i also noted that after the initial turn-on cycle (when the my iphone/BT module is not connected is not in the car) with the quick green and red lights, it does the red light and 5 beeps afterward before ending up in a steady blue light. per the manual does that mean that there is something wrong with the control box? system is 7 days old!)- i think maybe it had been doing this form the get go. anyway- i ran the stats file again. please help.


    Serial number 4576019
    CPU Hardware version 2
    Firmware version 5.2.3
    Region North America
    Power Cycles 84
    Control Set FW version 3.6
    Control Set HW version 1
    Activated locks not active
    Hardware version 2
    Connected sensors
    Connected sensors (memorized) Front1, Front2, Rear1, Rear2
    Connected sensors (actual) Front1, Front2, Rear1, Rear2
    Connected TX sensors (stored)
    Connected TX sensors (actual)
    Profile A
    Settings
    Audio Volume 5
    Parking detection range 9
    Silent Power-up Disabled
    Dark Mode Normal
    Parking enabled sensors
    GPS Antenna Enabled
    PDC Speed Limit NONE
    Working mode Parking and Laser Interference Defense
    Pro mode Disabled
    LID Speed Limit NONE
    Below set LID Speed Limit PDC & DLI
    Radar Antenna Model STIR+
    Radar Settings X, K, Ka
    LID Time 7 seconds
    After LID timeout Warm up
    Audio volume of Laser Alerts 5
    Audio volume of Radar Alerts 5
    Menu button short press function None
    Specific LID settings
    Vitronic Poliscan
    Speed scanner Enabled
    Unicam Camera
    Section speed control Front sensors ON
    NJL SCS
    Speed-laser Enabled
    Riegl
    Speed-laser Enabled
    Trafic Observer
    Speed scanner Enabled
    Stalker
    Speed-laser Maximum Power
    ARH TrafficSpot
    Speed scanner Disabled
    Profile B
    Settings
    Audio Volume 3
    Parking detection range 3
    Silent Power-up Disabled
    Dark Mode Normal
    Parking enabled sensors Front1, Front2, Front3, Rear1, Rear2
    GPS Antenna None
    PDC Speed Limit NONE
    Working mode Parking Detection only
    Pro mode Disabled
    LID Speed Limit NONE
    Below set LID Speed Limit PDC & DLI
    Radar Antenna Model Not Connected
    Radar Settings
    LID Time 3 seconds
    After LID timeout Warm up
    Audio volume of Laser Alerts 6
    Audio volume of Radar Alerts 6
    Menu button short press function None
    Specific LID settings
    Vitronic Poliscan
    Speed scanner Enabled
    Unicam Camera
    Section speed control Front sensors ON
    NJL SCS
    Speed-laser Enabled
    Riegl
    Speed-laser Enabled
    Trafic Observer
    Speed scanner Enabled
    Stalker
    Speed-laser Maximum Power
    ARH TrafficSpot
    Speed scanner Disabled
    Profile C
    Settings
    Audio Volume 3
    Parking detection range 3
    Silent Power-up Disabled
    Dark Mode Normal
    Parking enabled sensors Front1, Front2, Front3, Rear1, Rear2
    GPS Antenna None
    PDC Speed Limit NONE
    Working mode Parking Detection only
    Pro mode Disabled
    LID Speed Limit NONE
    Below set LID Speed Limit PDC & DLI
    Radar Antenna Model Not Connected
    Radar Settings
    LID Time 3 seconds
    After LID timeout Warm up
    Audio volume of Laser Alerts 6
    Audio volume of Radar Alerts 6
    Menu button short press function None
    Specific LID settings
    Vitronic Poliscan
    Speed scanner Enabled
    Unicam Camera
    Section speed control Front sensors ON
    NJL SCS
    Speed-laser Enabled
    Riegl
    Speed-laser Enabled
    Trafic Observer
    Speed scanner Enabled
    Stalker
    Speed-laser Maximum Power
    ARH TrafficSpot
    Speed scanner Disabled
    Alerts by Source Speed-laser
    Marksman and UltraLyte 0
    Atlanta SpeedLaser Stealth 0
    Kustom ProLaser 1 0
    Kustom ProLaser & ProLite 0
    Redspeed SpeedGuard 0
    Riegl 0
    Stalker 0
    LTI Truspeed 0
    Unipar - SL700 0
    NJL SCS 101 & 102 0
    Jenoptik – Laveg 0
    Leivtec XV 2 0
    Leivtec XV 3 0
    Laser Ally 0
    Cam S1 0
    ARH TrafficSpot 0
    Error Sensitive Lasers
    Jenoptik LaserPatrol 0
    Jenoptik TraffiPatrol XR 0
    ProLaser 2 & Atlanta SpeedLaser 0
    Stalker XLRr 0
    Speed Section Control
    Camea - IR Camera 0
    Speed Scanner
    Traffic Observer 0
    Vitronic Poliscan 0
    Radar
    K-band 20
    Ka-band 0
    X-band 5
    POP 0
    MultaRadar CD 0
    Print

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    Last edited by rxbg; 04-27-2016 at 07:21 PM.

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    update- when the BT module is connected i don't hear the start up sounds instead the iphone app says "warning gps disconnected" - is that what the main control box is trying to say? in that case i am not so worried.

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