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Glasses Icon / XTS Programming

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PPDBlue

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Strangely enough, I couldn't find the true meaning of the glasses sysmbol, in the CPS help or on Google. Shocked! See it before many times over the years. Didn't know if it means locked field, feature unavailable or what. Should be spelled out somewhere.. ANYWAYS, I can't change the personality Field # in Zone assignments. AND I noticed I can't delete zones or personalities on this radio. There's 240 personalities and 15 zones. I CAN ADD personalities or zones, and then delete them, but not the ones already in the radio. The "X" is greyed out. I've programmed Ht1000's,HT1250's, XTS1500's and 2500's and the like over the years, but this ones got me.
Any ideas?

Thanks in advance!
 

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I'm guessing you've got an XTS5000 with FPP and firmware greater than R09 which forces you into that configuration.
 

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The eyeglasses icon translates into "Read Only," for whatever reason the value cannot be altered.
 

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Thanks for the guidance guys!
FPP makes this a PIA then. Instead of having a personality be the "profile" for your channels in the zone assignments. God forbid Motorola should make programming a radio uniform. I think I liked the HT1250 the best. But then it took me a long time to take cassettes out of my console too....

Thanks again for the quick responses.
 
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