manticore

I have a year-old Minelab Manticore, and for the last few months, it's been getting harder and harder - after connecting the magnetic power cable - to get the green charging light to appear. I now have to fiddle with the connection for several minutes before the green light appears and I know...

I've been trying to figure out how to default my Minelab Manticore, and I've tried to get this information online, but I'm getting everything but. I want to factory reset it, since I'm hoping it may resolve the relentless squealing/squawking noises on all but one of the beach settings (I've...

So, what's to keep me from using the Manticore setting "Beach - General" when I'm detecting in the water? I seem to get clean signals with it. My "Surf and Seawater" only gives me continuous squawks and squeals, whether in or out of the water.

For those of you with Manticores, what settings do you adjust after going in the water to detect? Do you adjust ground balance or sensitivity or custom settings? I make sure I'm set to surf and seawater (I think it is) and maybe change the volume, but other that that, I've been leaving the...