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motorola20
 Post subject: bctool
PostPosted: Thu Aug 20, 2009 2:04 am 
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So I just got my new Bearcat 346XT today. Works like a champ. Only problem is that bctool seems to be taking an eternity to write my changes to the scanner. Has anybody experienced this problem before ? I spent a good 30 - 40 mins typing in the TGID's / notes / Names etc etc and I dont want to disconnect it and have to re-program using Freescan. Anybody know why bcTool hasn't released any upgrades sense last summer ? I signed up to the bctool yahoo group awhile back and never got a approval from the group dew hickey person in charge.
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Atomic Taco
 Post subject: Re: bctool
PostPosted: Thu Aug 20, 2009 12:32 pm 
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Yeah, I had that happen before, but I don't remember what the problem was. Might have had something to do with COM port settings.
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nickcarr
 Post subject: Re: bctool
PostPosted: Thu Aug 20, 2009 12:34 pm 
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The developer of BCTool stopped coding it due to real-life issues. It is not 100% stable.
To be honest, I'm surprised it worked with the 346XT.

What's the other program? It's like ARC or something. They have updated their software to support the new XT scanners.
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Atomic Taco
 Post subject: Re: bctool
PostPosted: Thu Aug 20, 2009 12:43 pm 
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Arc costs and it's crap. Freescan is the alternative.
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motorola20
 Post subject: Re: bctool
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such a shame about bcTool. It looks so much better than Freescan. Pretty much everything works on bcTool except write programming! Doh! The EZ-Grab feature on Freescan is really nice. And yea Arc looks like crap, they want 70 bucks for the pro version ? give me a break!
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nickcarr
 Post subject: Re: bctool
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Yeah that's it. I was thinking of Freescan.
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