Over a long hiatus of several weeks, I had left the transmitter off. Not in sleep, off. When I went to turn it on, nothing. Battery dead. I recharged it, and it wouldn't boot. Orange light came on, few seconds later flickered 2-3 times and turned off. Trial and error discovered that if I unplugged and replugged the battery, it would boot. This became our game. It would operate fine. Usually woke from sleep, but if I turned it off, I would have to unplug the battery. Putting off the inevitable, this lead to me putting a switch in inline with the battery to stop abusing the battery plug. Curiously it would start and operate fine if plugged into the charger. There's a clue in that. Today it would not boot, just orange light, then flicker. Then off. Often it wouldn't even do that. If it did load, after loading Airware, it turned itself off.
So, today I am shipping her off the Horizon, most wonderful customer service by the way. Their wizards will magic it back to normalcy. Being non-flying for 2 weeks will kill me, but a boy gotta do what a boy gotta do.
I still love this radio. This isn't a software issue, I am pretty sure it's hardware. It has behaved through Airware updates, until this last one. I too have a timer that doesn't display properly, though the audio countdown works.
2 weeks. Hmm... there's my DX7S I use for Real Flight sim... I have never actually flown with it though...
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