18bravo
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Anybody familiar with the E5 head? I saw a video where the display turns black and only the channel/menu color is displayed. Does anybody know how to achieve this?
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E5 Control Head
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18bravo
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Roger that thank you sir. Never had a mobile before the APX7500 with E5 head will be here tomorrow.
18bravo
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I did scan through it and saw no mention but I did take your advice and download to read up on it tonight.
15 seconds to find it. 🤷♂️
18bravo
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You the man!
15 seconds to find it. 🤷♂️
cjwelchc97
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Yes, this is a great feature and I love it. I use it all the time. You can program it in the APX software to remember your day/night setting if you want.
dark mode goodness. Too bad the O3 doesnt support this.
The O3 does support it, it's an assignable function. The manual as of March 2022 says it's supported.
18bravo
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I let him take care of my light work when I don’t feel like searching the webs.
Interesting...I have a 8500 with an O3 HHCH and using the softkey it will go bright, dim, no light on short press and long press does nothing.
What the manual says and what the radio does are two different things...
Same here, several O3s were tested on several APX radios all at FW 27.02. Holding the button does nothing.
We would expect nothing less from your posting history....
I was wrong, two different Motorola manuals contradict each other. The user guide makes no mention of day/night mode and the manual I posted earlier does. F...... Y.... Motorola.
All good. Motorola is the epitome of the expression "the left hand does not know what the right hand is doing"
They probably blindly copied/pasted stuff from a different manual into the O3 manual. You'll find the same in the APX service manuals...lots of contradictory and outdated info, even in the most recent revisions.
It's worth noting that the O3 head is nothing more than a 6000/8000 display module inside a handheld mic. It's likely that there is no night mode capability for them, unlike the mobile displays. The closest thing you'd get is the night vision mode that the SRX 2200 and APX 8000 with SRX package are capable of.
It's worth noting that the O3 head is nothing more than a 6000/8000 display module inside a handheld mic. It's likely that there is no night mode capability for them, unlike the mobile displays. The closest thing you'd get is the night vision mode that the SRX 2200 and APX 8000 with SRX package are capable of.
It could be worse. When I was at Sprint (through a "merger of equals", not by choice) the left hand didn't even know the right hand existed some times.
18bravo
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All jokes aside I do appreciate the help. I couldn’t find it in the manual anywhere that was my bad.
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