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Motorola APX 8000 top display off

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toxmost

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Hello. I just bought a new one APX 8000 3.5
All functions work fine, except for the top display - it remains blank. Maybe it needs to be enabled somewhere separately?
 

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There is no enabling/disabling the top display. If it doesn't show anything, then something is wrong. Could be a bad display, loose connection, funky VOCON, etc.

Was this a new APX or something off eBay?
 

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if it's brand new never used, deployed and or otherwise and your top display is off....but your main is on... something seems either bad, broke or not connected. there's nothing in the APX CPS for the top display to be enabled or disabled that I can see
 

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OP needs to specific exactly what is "blank". Is the entire display dead, or is it "missing" stuff that he thinks ought to be there? At the very least he should be seeing the row of icons at the top...TX power level and battery gauge, for example.
 
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