I can't think of many hand helds I bought used, ham ones I mean, that didn't 
have some quirk with them which was likely the reason the person sold them. 
Fact is, hand helds fall in to 2 categories, those that are just never used, 
in which case likely you get it used with a junk battery, or it was very 
very used, which for a hand held means it's been dropped, probably rained 
on, knocked over numerous times, and god only knows what else. Honestly, 
I've only sold hand helds when I absolutely had no choice because I needed 
money and now I don't even do that because mine fall in the second category 
with all my public service I do and hiking,  and what not, I very seldom 
leave the house without a handheld on me. There's a good reason I stick 
mainly with commercial ones besides the performance, they can take it though 
I must say I've only killed 2 ham hand helds so far and both were the same 
model radio. One I may actually be able to fix I may just need someone to 
solder the antenna connector back on it but I find it funny with this 
particular model that I managed to have problems with 2 of them and it's my 
newest one by far.

-----Original Message----- 
From: Colin McDonald
Sent: Thursday, January 28, 2016 7:07 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Update on trouble with radio:

Mike, you did say you bought it used didn't you?
If so, then the display issues are likely the reason it was being sold
cheap.

73
Colin, V A6BKX
-----Original Message----- 
From: Mike
Sent: Thursday, January 28, 2016 1:42 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Update on trouble with radio:

I did a full reset and the beaps came back.  When the radio powers up
sometimes the screen is backwards, letters from right to left, and also
backwards, like the letter e would point to the left instead the right,
and sometimes it would come up right, and then sometimes not at all.
I  am not sure why it would do that.
Mike
KD2CDU