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Weird Tone coming out of speaker


 
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I just had something weird happen.? I was on 10 meters just listening.? I had the Xiegu Speaker plugged in.? I left and returned and the radio was producing this tone.? I could tune up and down.? I could switch bands.? It still produced this tone.? I turned it off.? And it was still producing this tone.? I unplugged everything.? The green light was still on and still producing a tone.? I turned it back on and it was still producing the tone.? I cycled it on and off a few more times and it was still producing a tone.? I did a factory reset via the menu.? It was still producing a this tone.? I decided to take a video of this and even did a factory reset.? And it was still producing a tone.? While off I could plug the Xiegu speaker in and it this tone would switch back and forth from the speaker to the x6100 while OFF and unplugged.? The green light remained on still too.? I got to turn this thing off.? Did some searching and could not find anything.? So in I go.? First time opening it up.? I was aware of the ball bearings after watching the tear down videos.? I knew where to go.? Manufacturers really should try producing their own teardown videos like that instead of random people, anyway I digress.? So I pull the sides take the two screws holding the back battery plate off and there is the battery.? I pull the connector out half way and sound stops.? The connector doesn't come out all the way because of the battery.? I slide it back in and no sound.? Put it back together and power it back on.? No sound.? Connect my antenna tune back to 10m and everything appears to be fine.? My concern is I now have to carry a screwdriver to open up my radio.? Will this happen again?? What could have caused it?? Anyone know?? When I was in the menu while the tone was going off, i went in to the system info and under the Base version it did not have "V1.1.6", it just had a question mark "?" here.? When I go into this menu after doing the hard reset like I did, then it shows up correctly.? Has anyone ever encountered this issue?


 

I had a similar situation. In my case it was not a tone. The radio went on transmit (TX) and stood there. Nothing worked. Software Reset didn¡¯t solve it. Nothing. Had to open the back and disconnected the battery. Only then, the problem stopped. My radio was getting warm. Good I had a dummy load connected otherwise the finals could have burned out.
This happened after a firmware update.

This radio needs, repeat, needs a hard reset button.

73
Rob
YS1RS


 

Sorry, an update here!
My son just reminded me that YES, it had the CW TX TONE all the time. The red led was ON and was transmitting continuously.
The small Dummy Load was starting to get warm when I finally opened up the battery section and unplugged the battery connector.
Could be a low power external battery? I mean, the external battery was no longer fully charged at the time of my firmware upgrade?
Something to think about. After unplugging the battery and plugging it back, all went normal and just in case, I re-imaged (re-installed the firmware) the radio with no more problems since then.

73
Rob
YS1RS