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maninred
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Re: Tracked items

Post by maninred »

DGP1 wrote:
fishtank wrote:I got a message on my PDA on thursday saying that some tracked items were failing due to the wrong barcode being scanned on some of the items. :neutral:
BT ones, scanning the BT code instead of the RM one :roll:
If you scan the BT barcode it come up as invalid anyway.
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DGP1
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Re: Tracked items

Post by DGP1 »

maninred wrote:
DGP1 wrote:
fishtank wrote:I got a message on my PDA on thursday saying that some tracked items were failing due to the wrong barcode being scanned on some of the items. :neutral:
BT ones, scanning the BT code instead of the RM one :roll:
If you scan the BT barcode it come up as invalid anyway.
Don't know, never been stupid enough to do it :chuckle
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maninred
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Re: Tracked items

Post by maninred »

DGP1 wrote:
maninred wrote:
DGP1 wrote:
fishtank wrote:I got a message on my PDA on thursday saying that some tracked items were failing due to the wrong barcode being scanned on some of the items. :neutral:
BT ones, scanning the BT code instead of the RM one :roll:
If you scan the BT barcode it come up as invalid anyway.
Don't know, never been stupid enough to do it :chuckle
I did it........................to show the stupid ones what happens! :crazy:
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dvbuk55
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Re: Tracked items

Post by dvbuk55 »

I don't think they are that reliable, whoever said they had a 99% accuracy is living in cloud cuckoo land - there are numerous failures out on site and some have discovered the "remove the battery and press the little rubber button" and lo and behold it starts working again..........unfortutely it loses any data not sent :neutral:
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prowler
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Re: Tracked items

Post by prowler »

I agree with you, which was the point of my original post!
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Himaggen
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Re: Tracked items

Post by Himaggen »

fishtank wrote:I got a message on my PDA on thursday saying that some tracked items were failing due to the wrong barcode being scanned on some of the items. :neutral:
Me too, the good thing was that they'd been crazy enough to allow me a reply option. Mine was simply LOL!
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cfps
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Re: Tracked items

Post by cfps »

maninred wrote:
DGP1 wrote:
fishtank wrote:I got a message on my PDA on thursday saying that some tracked items were failing due to the wrong barcode being scanned on some of the items. :neutral:
BT ones, scanning the BT code instead of the RM one :roll:
If you scan the BT barcode it come up as invalid anyway.

it looks like any BT barcode starting with a letter P will scan.. ie, it will beep and turn green looking as if it has been scanned.
Dont know if it will help the original poster, but we had a gun last week that was switching between inward and outward without any input from its operator.. we missed our compliance and q.of s big time last week because of it. IT requested we send the gun back rather than "push the little rubber button"!
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SpacePhoenix
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Re: Tracked items

Post by SpacePhoenix »

cfps wrote:
maninred wrote:
DGP1 wrote:
fishtank wrote:I got a message on my PDA on thursday saying that some tracked items were failing due to the wrong barcode being scanned on some of the items. :neutral:
BT ones, scanning the BT code instead of the RM one :roll:
If you scan the BT barcode it come up as invalid anyway.

it looks like any BT barcode starting with a letter P will scan.. ie, it will beep and turn green looking as if it has been scanned.
Dont know if it will help the original poster, but we had a gun last week that was switching between inward and outward without any input from its operator.. we missed our compliance and q.of s big time last week because of it. IT requested we send the gun back rather than "push the little rubber button"!
I don't know if the PDAs used in DOs are different from the ones used in MCs but with the MC ones if the bar code is invalid, the "error" beep is distinctly different.
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