Baofeng UV-5G Pro - Roger Beep Distortion after using CHIRP

[WSEZ393]

Hello, I have a pair of UV-5G Pros that I programmed using the Baofeng programming cable with CHIRP and now my Roger Beep is all distorted. It doesn’t transmit this way across the air and only outputs this way through the speaker and any accessories like speaker-mics or the (horrible) included PTT headset. The rest of the sounds are perfectly normal and all transmissions sound just fine, including normal FM broadcast so it’s definitely not a speaker issue. I’ve tried changing channels, output powers, squelch settings, privacy tones and even factory resetting it but it doesn’t seem to make any change. 
 

Thankfully it’s not impacting the usability of the radios but I am very curious if anyone knows anything about this. I have a video attachment so you can hear what it sounds like. 

[SteveShannon]

50 minutes ago, WSEZ393 said:

Hello, I have a pair of UV-5G Pros that I programmed using the Baofeng programming cable with CHIRP and now my Roger Beep is all distorted. It doesn’t transmit this way across the air and only outputs this way through the speaker and any accessories like speaker-mics or the (horrible) included PTT headset. The rest of the sounds are perfectly normal and all transmissions sound just fine, including normal FM broadcast so it’s definitely not a speaker issue. I’ve tried changing channels, output powers, squelch settings, privacy tones and even factory resetting it but it doesn’t seem to make any change. 
 

Thankfully it’s not impacting the usability of the radios but I am very curious if anyone knows anything about this. I have a video attachment so you can hear what it sounds like. 

Are there different Roger beeps and did you change your Roger beep to one of the others?

[TerriKennedy]

3 hours ago, WSEZ393 said:

Hello, I have a pair of UV-5G Pros that I programmed using the Baofeng programming cable with CHIRP and now my Roger Beep is all distorted. It doesn’t transmit this way across the air and only outputs this way through the speaker and any accessories like speaker-mics or the (horrible) included PTT headset. The rest of the sounds are perfectly normal and all transmissions sound just fine, including normal FM broadcast so it’s definitely not a speaker issue. I’ve tried changing channels, output powers, squelch settings, privacy tones and even factory resetting it but it doesn’t seem to make any change. 
 

Thankfully it’s not impacting the usability of the radios but I am very curious if anyone knows anything about this. I have a video attachment so you can hear what it sounds like.

That's an odd one, all right. Did you save the original radio config .img with CHIRP before making changes to the radio? If so, try uploading that to the radio. If not, try doing a factory reset (usually somewhere around menu 40 in the older models) after making notes of everything you want to put back after the reset.

There's only one audio clip of the roger beep stored in the radio, and I'd expect either a) what goes out over the air to also be corrupted (if it was a "wild write" - see below) or all audio coming out of the speaker / headset to be distorted (if something happened to the audio gain).

My programming (CPS, firmware - not "programming" as in writing configs) experience is just with the newer full-color-screen Baofeng models, so the following may not be relevant...

The radio allows reads of its configuration memory (that's how CHIRP, the CPS and the various commercial 3rd-party apps do their read / write of the user configuration memory). The radio won't allow reading of memory outside of the area for user configurations, but will allow writes to all of flash memory (which holds things like the startup image, voice prompts/tones, fonts, calibration data and so on). So a "wild write" can stomp on things by accident. It's also how my various CPS releases allow editing the startup picture and voice prompts.