Any way to dim the brightness on the APX 6000?

[Mogley]

On the APX 6000 the brightness is at a good level until you press a button then it like flashbangs you with how bright the screen gets. I went through the entire CPS help but I couldn't find anything except for mobile CPS mentioning a dimmer for it and also Night vision Goggles mode but I don't see that anywhere on my CPS.

I mainly use it at night so it is extremely bright.

If someone can tell me how I can not go blind looking at the screen, I would greatly appreciate it.

Thanks.

 

[n3obl]

I usually turn off the perm backlight setting in ergonomics.

 

[Mogley]

I usually turn off the perm backlight setting in ergonomics.

Will it make it impossible to see the screen? Like completely black screen can't see?

 

[n3obl]

Not really. You can read it during daytime. At night any key press lights it up a few seconds.

The perm backlight kills battery life on the apx portables.

 

[GTR8000]

Actually, the permanent backlight setting does provide a dimmer front display when enabled. Other than that, there is no way to control the level of brightness for either display. The top display is either on or off, no halfway dimming as there is with the permanent backlight enabled for the front display. You can also disable auto-light to stop the screen from going full bright when a key is pressed. You can set the light time to infinite and use a button to turn it on/off (which will toggle between full bright + top display illuminated vs dim front display only).

Or you can enable channel color backlight (requires all profiles to have intelligent lighting disabled), then set every channel in every zone to a red backlight. Just note that channel color backlight only applies to the top display.

 

[ConistonSafetyServices]

The perm backlight kills battery life on the apx portables.

If I recall, help file mentions an approximate 30% reduction in battery life