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What does the "factory upgrade" for the VX3 do?
Posted by: SteveP(NH)
Date: August 24, 2012 07:15AM
My VX3's audio was intermittantly cutting out completely (on both speaker and headphones) and so I sent it in for repair. When I talked to them and found out what they had done and when they were shipping it back to me, I was told that they replaced the audio daughter board and did a factory upgrade to it.

I have searched on the web but can't find out what the factory upgrade does. This is an early VX3 as it was first sold in January 2012 and then I bought it second hand in June. I assume that the factory upgrade is a firmware update and that it probably just fixes a few bugs and perhaps tweaks some internal settings but doesn't anyone know for sure what it does?

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Re: What does the "factory upgrade" for the VX3 do?
Posted by: Larry (IL)
Date: August 24, 2012 07:30AM
That is a new one for me, I haven't heard of an upgrade for the VX3.



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Re: What does the "factory upgrade" for the VX3 do?
Posted by: Bill_S
Date: August 24, 2012 07:33AM
I have never heard term daughterboard.....Motherboard yes.



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Re: What does the "factory upgrade" for the VX3 do?
Posted by: vx3 man
Date: August 24, 2012 07:51AM
Will be calling whites to find out what the upgrade is about,will let u know what I hear.

Re: What does the "factory upgrade" for the VX3 do?
Posted by: SteveP(NH)
Date: August 24, 2012 09:45AM
Re: What does the "factory upgrade" for the VX3 do?
Posted by: vx3 man
Date: August 24, 2012 12:42PM
Mary at whites says their is no factory upgrade for the vx3

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Re: What does the "factory upgrade" for the VX3 do?
Posted by: wildherre
Date: August 24, 2012 01:53PM
Im thinkin "Factory Reset" not "Factory Upgrade" .... wildherre



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Re: What does the "factory upgrade" for the VX3 do?
Posted by: SteveP(NH)
Date: August 24, 2012 02:33PM
The technician I spoke with definitely said "factory upgrade" and I repeated it to him and he confirmed that is what he said. I wish I had thought to ask what it did when I had him on the phone. Maybe he meant factory reset but I don't think he would have mentioned something so trivial when he was listing the work he did on the machine to fix it, but who knows.

Maybe there will be a written summary of the work done in the box with the machine. It was all warranty work so didn't cost me anything except for the shipping there. It was shipped out of White's yesterday so I should get it next week sometime. I didn't get a tracking # so don't know when it will show up for sure.

Re: What does the "factory upgrade" for the VX3 do?
Posted by: vx3 man
Date: August 24, 2012 02:42PM
Well Mary said if their was one she would know and she said no so I'm thinking u got a master reset

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Re: What does the "factory upgrade" for the VX3 do?
Posted by: oneon
Date: August 24, 2012 07:05PM
Hes talking about the V3 to V3I upgrade?

Re: What does the "factory upgrade" for the VX3 do?
Posted by: vx3 man
Date: August 24, 2012 08:38PM
Yeah that makes sense,got kind of excited.was hoping that's they would make a color screen like the background to be black like the v3i can be,the back light on 1 is to bright to hunt at night,I loose my night vision when looking from screen to ground.

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Re: What does the "factory upgrade" for the VX3 do?
Posted by: triplehooked
Date: August 24, 2012 09:17PM
I had a Vx3 in Jan. of 2012 and it was 4 mos. old when I got it.....don't think what you have is an "early model". Interesting about the factory upgrade tho. Prob. just a reset or maybe you had a bad apple... The good thing is that you own a Whites product and it will be better than new when you get it back! Happy huntin' you have a nice detector for it.



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Re: What does the "factory upgrade" for the VX3 do?
Posted by: SteveP(NH)
Date: August 25, 2012 07:40AM
Well once it is back I will see what if anything the paperwork says and more importantly when I have a chance to get it out I will see if I notice anything different in the menus or anything. I hope that the technician didn't just misspeak as I got sort of excited when I heard him say factory upgrade and as soon as I hung up the phone I started searching google to see if I could find out anything about it. Even sent my best hunting buddy (who hunts with a V3i) an email saying the VX3 was getting a factory upgrade. So is for sure what I heard.

After thinking about I think he meant to say that he flashed the bios with the normal VX3 software and just used factory upgrade as a catch all phrase to mean that.

Re: What does the "factory upgrade" for the VX3 do?
Posted by: Salida
Date: August 28, 2012 12:27AM
If you talked to a Tech at Whites and he said there is an upgrade, I'd call Whites back and ask
to speak with another Tech and get another opinion.
Salida

Re: Hey Steve they are giving you a up grade bad one for good one!N/T
Posted by: Frank in NH
Date: August 28, 2012 06:50AM

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