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APX APX 4000 Long Press?
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Perhaps so... but I could have sworn my old APX6000 let me short press to toggle scan and long press to nuisance delete. Also, short press home to go to Current Zone Channel 1 and long press to go to Zone 1 Channel 1.
But, to be fair, it's been getting on towards 4 years since I carried that radio.
Definitely not any APX model. A scan button is always short press: on/off and long press: scan list edit (if enabled). The home button always requires a long press to go to whichever zone/channel you setup in CPS, while short press always takes you to the first screen of softkeys or backs you out of whatever menu you're in.
My organization uses APX6000XE (model H98UCH9PW7BN - stress on that "BN") and all button presses are "long presses" in the current codeplug specifically so that bumping buttons does not make changes while the user is moving around. On these and using APX CPS30 you only have the option for long or short presses, not long and short. Not sure if earlier version could do that or not though. We wanted it to be harder for end users to mess up their radio settings with short presses, and this had to be negotiated countywide for interoperability reasons.
It has already been a gripe for some end users that went from XTS2500 radios to these APX6000XE as enabling long press for every button can be annoying, to include the soft buttons for the bottom front display options (Zone, Mute, Scan, Batt(ery), Clck (clock), and MyID (Radio ID sent or not) being options on our radios.
It has already been a gripe for some end users that went from XTS2500 radios to these APX6000XE as enabling long press for every button can be annoying, to include the soft buttons for the bottom front display options (Zone, Mute, Scan, Batt(ery), Clck (clock), and MyID (Radio ID sent or not) being options on our radios.
APX CPS allows you to define the duration of what is considered a short press or a long press, either globally (effects every button) or per-button in more recent CPS. The short duration cannot be equal to the long duration, which means that even if you setup the short press duration to mimic a long press (default 1000ms), you still have a long press except it would now be a very long press (>1000ms).
In any event, you still cannot customize separate short and long press assignments, which is what the OP was inquiring about. The short/long press functionality, where applicable, is paired up by MSI and cannot be separated.
