V1 Gen2: Ka & Laser Improvements, fw 4.1031
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- čas přidán 10. 06. 2024
- Checking out the V1 Gen2's Late-September 2023 upgrade.
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Discussion on RDF: www.rdforum.org/threads/132060/
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0:00 Intro
0:37 TruSpeed S Detection
2:08 Ka False Reduction
3:07 Ka Priority
4:39 New Bogey Tone
5:22 Improved Display Responsiveness
6:51 Apps Unmuting
8:32 Wrapping Up
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Thank goodness, Mike Valentine.. please keep it up.
V, Thanks for being first to get the news and result out there.
Great to hear. And now I know what the update actually does! Thank you for ALL you do.
Thanks.
Just bought another for my daughter and her Golf R.
I’ve owned V1 and V2 and quite frankly they have always been amazing. The over the air V2 updates are crazy good ! Super easy .. the fit and finish is perfect. Form factor is great too .. face it Mike Valentine has perfected this device and made it non-obsolete !
Still rocking the V1G1 with ESP and JBV1!
Thanks! Very excited for this update
Thank you for all your help with spreading knowledge on radar detectors. Within 3 weeks of finding your channel I finally understand the basics of radar detectors! :)
Outside of this update topic I saw one of your videos where you have mentioned using physical buttons to report to the app (instead of voice or pressing on the phone screen). Can you create a video on what are you using and how to program/connect these physical buttons?
Rural towns along i10 between Tucson and Phoenix have sheriffs that still run K and X band radar guns. Random K or X band alert as you approach a tiny town and then see a silver or black Ram sitting on the side of the road.
@@heyitspete6472 not specifically, but yes. Not so much on i10, but on the county roads/highways they will run K/X
You’re the best, thanks for all you do..
Only took them over 3 years to alert to TSS. I addressed this with engineers when i was testing laser jammers.
I have noticed that the V1 does in fact have weak signal false alerts on Ka., Glad they fixed it.
Thanks!
I'm getting ready to send my old V1gen1 in for the upgrade V2. I just picked up the Uniden R4 after seeing your video. I'm running it in my Infiniti Q50RS 400 and I'll put the V1G2 in my 04 SVT Cobra
Great to get this news! I'm looking forward to checking out the new firmware. You should know that this video has great sounding audio but there is a faint high pitch noise coming through, I don't know if you can hear it but, I thought I heard it on my TV speaker, but I definitely hear it on the headphones. It's not present in your 700i review. Thought you should know.
I just listened to your review on my Apple iPad and I heard no extraneous noises.
watching on my MacBook and I can hear what you're talking about. High pitched noise.
Sorry about that! Thanks for letting me know. I’m changing up my mic setup and I’ll keep working on it to clean things up. 👍
@@VortexRadar no problem, just wanted to notify you. 🫡
I just grabbed a set of headphones and I can hear what you mean. I didn't notice it through my computer speakers. I found a way to take care of the high pitched noise in a video I'm working on now and for future videos, I'll change up my mic setup again to hopefully prevent it from happening in the first place and helping me avoid having to fix it in post. Thanks again for letting me know! It should be better moving forward.
I like that app so much. Makes me want to get rid of the redline 360c
Nice
Hi, thanks for the video. Are you preferring the V1 Companion app over the V1 driver app now that it’s available on iOS?
A little bit right now, yeah. That unmuting feature didn’t work on V1Driver when I tested it.
Fortunately for me I have never experienced the Ka false problem down here in Florida
So when I make the change in the V1 connection app to prioritize Ka is that permanently turned on in the V1? In other words do I have to be connected to the V1 connection app all the time?
How long do you figure until they tell us Theia is never coming
I am guessing that John Boy is already setting up JBV1 for these new options.
Oh you know it! lol www.rdforum.org/threads/132086/
Nice! Now they need to do something about that long damn press to power off. It's the only thing I dislike about the V1G2.
It’s wild that I’ve never had an issue with the Ka false…maybe there’s some HW variances?
That's a great question. Right now the consensus seems to be that it's a location dependent thing, but I wonder what would happen if some of us tried swapping detectors and seeing if the results changed... :)
Same here. In GA and surrounding states, when Ka beeps, there's a cop somewhere around. I've seen alerts up to 2 miles away.
❤
Vortex - does escort 360mkii alert to truspeed s?
Wow. That is awesome. But I have a question. Would you choose redline 360c or the v1g2???
I’ve done a video on that topic several times. Would you mind being more specific on your thoughts behind the decision?
@@VortexRadarI like the redline 360C, but the V1G2 picks up faster. The redline is great in Orlando Florida, but the V1G2 is awesome on the highway traveling. So the question really is that the redline 360C is better in town but V1G2 for highway?
Driving with the V1G2 after the update is awesome. I just noticed that it changes when Driving down the interstate, L turns into a small L on its own. Believe me I drive very fast
Apps can change that setting based on speed. The V1 doesn’t have GPS to do that on its own.
Omg!!!!! Drove mine 600 miles today on All bogeys mode. It’s exhausting! It false-alerts to every single Honda, Toyota, and 18 wheeler. Exhausting. It’s an R8 on roids as far as false alerts go
lol oh man… switch to Advanced Logic or at least Logic mode instead. :)
Its still early but if the new Laser upgrade causes increased K falses, thats not something anybody wants.
As well, some challenges when muted and after receiving a new laser alert, it stays muted.
When i turn my gopro off my v1g2 alerts, maybe this'll fix that.
Excuse my ignorance but how 'stealthy' is the V1G2 to Spectre (Stalcar) detection?
Super important here in Au over and above range or filtering or anything as the fines for having an RD are horrific.
One of the stealthiest detectors out there. It’s great for that.
@@VortexRadar Thanks 👍
As in it has to be closer than 12 inches with the detector to sense it.
This same guy has a video on it.
Same here, Ka falses are non existent for me
I have been running the R4 and V1 Gen 1 at the same time for a couple of years (absolutely no interference when running the 2 at the same time) and still would not change it for any one single radar presently on the market. I have KA and laser turned on on the V1 for arrows. I think the R8 is a great detector but would not trade it for my set up since the R8 can't match the wonderful laser detection that the V1 provides... Hey what's up with Thea :) LOL
I have a r3 and I RUN a v1 as well for the laser alerts since v1 is amazing on laser notification
I had that same set up until I got the R4. It worked great as well. I have been running the v1 with X & K off, I think I am going to turn K back on for the arrows.
@@eddieryan63and great rear laser detection from the V1.
te rog frumos dacă poți să faci un clip cu setările Uniden R4 pentru Europa 🙏🙏🙏
Anybody else getting the K band overload? Shoots up to 9 bogeys on a false
Any news about the Theia?? It’s been over a year and haven’t heard anything
Yeah just crickets….
@@VortexRadar that’s too bad, you showed a lot of interest in it like the rest of us. It’s sad, we’ll never know how well it works.
As Elon Musk says, to paraphrase: Prototypes, lab work, and models are easy. Production (product) is HARD”…. Guess they can’t get things past models, lab work, alpha prototypes for now.
V1G2 or Redline 360C?????
Okay so I'm looking right now at this moment December 21st 2023 to buy a new radar detector. Currently I have a Escort Max 360 (not the c) and honestly it's been really solid over the years. I update my database like maybe once a year (prbly been like 2 years or so for me now) and other than the arrows being slow i really can't complain. I don't get falses from BSM in cars, my gps lockout works great, i know Valentine is against i but I don't have issues. So anyway I'm lookin to get a new radar since I've had my current escort for like 7 years or so and at this point it's flown off my dashboard a few times and now the bottom rows of LEDs don't work which makes it harder to read during the daytime, still can read the screen at night and I run the option where I can see the Band/Frequency the radar is broadcasting on so I like to see the screen. Now I really want to get the Valentine V1 Gen2 especially since my main phone is Android and I can use JBV1 for GPS lockouts but all these issue with false positives blow my mind, like wtf are you doing fix ur FW. I just bought my mom a R4 for Christmas as she recently got a job further away and she specifically brought up a radar detector and I'm like shit i use a good radar all the time let me do some research and get her something solid. Part of my gut is telling me to get the R8 but I am tech savvy and willing to put in the setup time of the V1. So tell me, should I get the V1 gen2 or the R8, I have the money set aside to get either one. Also maybe the escort 360 redline? My current escort doesn't give me false positives.
Edit:
I really hope they get the BSM fired out, I'm picking one up so we'll see how it goes. Most ppl I see with escort say they have issues with Honda/Toyota tho I haven't had issues in a few years now with any manufacturer.
Wow, way to keep your comment classy. Not sure who hurt you but you’ll be ok. It’s a radar detector.
@@brentsilva6406 ya I had a few drinks that night I'll prbly clean it up. I ended up buying the v1, figured it can't hurt to try and like I said my escort has seen better days.
If you could have only one radar detector what would be your chose under $1,000
These days R8 with an app
What's the point of having the ticket notifier setting ON?
lol
Because the V1, both G1 and G2 many times are ticket preventers on laser. Over several decades, save me and my buddies many times on laser. Just today, my DS1 (R4 laser guts), would not go off point blank range with what looked like a small handheld Compact Dragon Eye. Fortunately I know where they sit. In the other vehicle, have been saved many times with this trap. They pulled over other vehicles, which my G2 alerted to way before I was in range. Picked up the laser reflections no issue.
Funny that it cries wolf on Ka in the past because I think the current R8 cries wolf for K band. No matter how you set it up it chirps entirely too much. K block is really useless and nothing but a glorified squelch switch.
The R8 can be chatty on K band, yes. You can do some added muting of it which helps, but overall I find Ka falses to be more egregious than K band falses.
@@VortexRadar good point, either way it makes you lose trust in the detector’s ability to identify radar accurately. I have tried every conceivable way to reduce K band false alerts on my R8, but I find it most annoying that it will still false to just about all BSM if I’m close enough on the interstate and the auto lockout feature still needs a lot of work too. I call my R8 the chicKen little of K band. I ended up going back to my R7 (quieter) because because of the constant K band falsing of the R8. It’s frustrating that Valentine, Escort, and Uniden can’t produce a complete detector.
@@VortexRadarin your honest opinion and I mean honest opinion, is the V1G2 worth getting or another kind of radar that doesn’t cry wolf if the Ka band
@NeauxLA_Man V1 Gen2 with JBV1 is pretty darn close to perfect. JBV1 pretty much obliterates static K false alarms thanks to auto learning / GPS based database.
I tried every possible way to get control of the constant K falsing of the Uni R8. It simply isn’t manageable with the current features/firmware version. I decided to try R8 Companion as a last resort before I got rid of the R8 and bought something else. It worked. If only Uniden incorporated the software of the R8 Companion app - then you would have a best in class detector. I know the moment I drive if I forgot to launch the app because my R8 constantly falses on k band without it. If you buy the R8 the R8 Companion app is a must. K block and GPS lockouts on the R8 are still a joke.
R7, you don't have to worry about settings or up dates. I'm just saying. Valentine, my first radar, if they were reliable, I might go back. Don't see that happening.
That was the complete opposite of my R7 experience.
Interesting. Good to know.
@ninjasarereal5883 really, mine works fine with no updates.
I’ve updated my R7 at least three times now. Last one was maybe a year ago. Maybe just don’t know what you’re missing?
@willworthoberg6818 true or it makes no difference
Personally, I will not purchase a V1G2, bad experience with Valentine customer service back in the days where they were in between G1 and G2. When V1G1 hit the market they were always #1, now nah, I'll keep my old V1G1 and wait for vaporware Theia LOL or something next generation
I have been using Valentine since 1997. Even visited the store in Blue Ash while going to The Ohio State. They are a tech company so customer service is not their forte. Also still rocking the V1G1 with JBV1.
@@normt430 I hear you, I have been with my V1G1 since 2006 and I have only received 1 speeding ticket that I literally deserved LOL
@@adambomb13 since 1996 here and had a few. One was laser from behind before V1 started offering laser rear laser reception.
First baby
Nobody else hears thay god awful high frequency sound in the video audio? Sounds like a dog whistle the entire time.
Signs that ur hearing is good. I hear it.
Let's call a spade a spade... after running and updating the V1G1 since original release, the new V1G2 SUCKS. Wife and I prefer the Uniden R7.
Really so you’re saying the V1G2 sucks? If you can take the time tell me about your experience and why in full details please.
If I needed all out laser and Ka-band detection with customizable filter in the city my choice would V1G2 with JBV1. But still holding to V1G1 with JBV1.
Radar detectors that use or require smartphone apps are terrifying, to me.
These apps are definitely collecting your location data, right? Would appreciate a deep dive on the various apps and ecosystem out there. If any of them are collecting personal data that could subsequently be obtained by law enforcement, that sort of defeats the whole purpose of the radar detector paradigm imo.
Most of the radars use GPS
All that stuff is already being collected by your phone, right? I’m not really too worried about any of that. But I respect your right to your own opinion.
I think that ship has already sailed.
My V1 is never hooked up to my phone. I run it as an old school standalone detector.
@@chrisbaer4567
Well, if you have an Android phone, you might consider an app called JBV1. I know it's certainly an advantage for me. But, to each his own.