Thanks to all once again for the help you offered me . Joel hit it right on the nose. He said to update not only the remote but the headphones also which I had not done. So this evening after work , I erased all the coils on the remote and then put them all back in. Got out my ws5 headphones and recharged them along with the coils and the remote itself. Reloaded the remote with the 5.2 version again and low and behold , everything started working again. I just can't say thank you enough to all of you ! And also AHRPS for having this great metal detecting website. Time to find some treasure