Settings

Open Settings with OK, 7, or with *, 0. Settings are grouped by what they are for. A number key opens a group directly. Find also reaches each setting by name: type its first letters on Home.

Changing a setting

Each row shows its current value.

On/off and list settings change with OK: each press goes to the next value.
Number settings open an editor on OK. Change the value with Up and Down (or the channel knob), or type it with the number keys, press OK to keep it, Back to leave it unchanged. A typed value outside the range, or between steps, isn't taken: the radio says "Not changed" with the range.
A setting takes effect and is saved as soon as you change it. There is no separate save step.

Some settings are on the menu before the feature behind them exists, or don't apply to this radio. They are dimmed. OK on a dimmed row says why. The Status column of each table shows this:

Status	Meaning
Works	Acts now and is kept across power off
Works, not kept	Acts now, back to the default after power off
Dimmed	Not built yet, or not on this radio. OK says why

Reference

Sound (key 1)

Setting	Values	Default	What it does	Status
Key tones	On, Off	On	A short beep on each key press	Works
Volume	0 to 16	8	The speaker volume, on radios without a volume knob only (the row is not shown on the others). 0 is mute. The Volume key opens a screen that changes it faster (Radio reference)	Works
Tone volume	0 to 10	5	Volume of the radio's beeps, relative to the radio's volume	Works
Talk permit tone	On, Off	On	The beep when a DMR transmission starts (DMR)	Works
Voice prompts	On, Off	Off	Spoken prompts. There is no recorded speech yet	Dimmed
Message tone	On, Off	On	A three-note tone when a text message arrives	Works
Vibrate	On, Off	On	The radio vibrates for a text message, a call alert, a private call to you and an emergency it hears. Only on radios with a vibration motor (Radio reference)	Works

Display (key 2)

Setting	Values	Default	What it does	Status
Brightness	10 to 100 %, steps of 10	100 %	Backlight brightness. Also in quick settings, tile 9	Works
Backlight time	5 s, 10 s, 30 s, 1 min, 2 min, Never	30 s	The backlight dims after this time without a key press and goes off after four times as long	Works
Theme	Dark, Light, High contrast	Dark	The screen colors. Not on radios with a monochrome screen	Works
Highlight color	Default, Red, Orange, Yellow, Teal, Light blue, Purple, Pink	Default	The color of the selected row or tile and of the channel number on Home. Not on radios with a monochrome screen	Works
Filled status bar	On, Off	On	Fills the top status line with the highlight color (light gray with Default, white in the high-contrast theme) and draws its text black. Not on radios with a monochrome screen	Works
Large text	On, Off	Off	Home shows only the status line, the channel and the talk target, large	Works
Hint row	On, Off	On	The bottom line with key hints	Works

Talk & listen (key 3)

Setting	Values	Default	What it does	Status
Reply window	0 to 30 s	The codeplug's hang time, else 10 s	How long PTT answers the last call (DMR). 0 turns it off	Works
TX timeout	Off, 30 s, 1, 2, 3, 5, 10 min	3 min	Longest transmission, for channels without their own timeout in the codeplug	Works
Default squelch	0 to 9	5	The FM squelch level when a channel doesn't set one	Works
VFO step	Auto, 2.5, 5, 6.25, 8.33, 10, 12.5, 20, 25, 50, 100 kHz	Auto	The step of Up, Down and the knob in the VFO. Auto is 25 kHz at width 25K and in AM, else 12.5 kHz. Only on radios with a VFO	Works
FM broadcast step	200 kHz, 100 kHz	200 kHz	The VFO step in the broadcast band. 200 kHz lands on the odd tenths (88.1, 88.3), the stations in the Americas. You can still type any frequency. Only on radios with a broadcast receiver (Air band and FM broadcast)	Works
Mic gain	0 to 10	5	Microphone level, 2 dB a step. 5 is the radio's normal level. Sets DMR, and FM on the radios that set the level in their microphone path (Radio reference). A change counts from the next transmission. Shows "AGC" and can't be changed while Mic AGC is on	Works (DMR); FM not checked on air
Mic AGC	On, Off	Off	Evens out your level on DMR: a quiet voice is raised and a loud one lowered, so you don't need to set Mic gain. While it's on, Mic gain stays at 5. Dimmed on radios whose voice codec can't do it	Needs an on-air check (DMR)
Mic noise reduction	On, Off	On	Reduces steady background noise (fans, engines, wind) in what you send on DMR, also between words. Turn it off if a steady sound you want heard is cut. Dimmed on radios whose voice codec can't do it	Needs an on-air check (DMR)
Monitor by default	On, Off	Off	Digital monitor (DMR: every talkgroup, promiscuous) goes on each time you select a DMR channel. Back on Home turns it off until the next channel	Works
Show talker alias	On, Off	On	Show received talker aliases (names) under the caller's ID	Works
Dual watch talk back	On, Off	Off	Off: a call on the other channel never moves PTT. On: when a call ends on the other channel, that channel becomes the selected one for 10 s (restarting with each reply and call there), so PTT answers there (Dual watch)	Works
Dual watch delay	0.5 s, 1 s, 1.5 s, 2 s, 3 s, 5 s	1 s	How long dual watch stays on a channel after a call ends, for the reply. It looks at the other channel meanwhile and shows Busy there (Dual watch)	Works

Privacy (key 4)

Setting	Values	Default	What it does	Status
Key type	Off, Motorola, Anytone	Off	The kind of basic privacy key (DMR). Off removes the key	Works
Key	Motorola 1 to 255, Anytone 0 to 65535		The key value, typed with the number keys. Dimmed until a type is chosen	Works
Auto lock	Off, 30 s, 1 min, 5 min	Off	Locks the keys after this time without a key press	Works
PTT when locked	On, Off	On	Whether PTT works while the keys are locked. Off: PTT does nothing until you unlock	Works

Location (key 5)

Setting	Values	Default	What it does	Status
GPS	On, Off	On	The GPS receiver, on radios that have one (Radio reference). Off powers the module down and the radio has no fix (APRS and DMR use the computer's or the fixed position); the change takes effect at once. Without GPS the row is dimmed and says "No GPS on this radio"	Dimmed without GPS
Position format	Degrees, Deg min sec, Grid	Degrees	How positions are shown	Dimmed without GPS
Send position	Off, 1 min, 5 min, 15 min	Off	Send your position at this interval	Dimmed without GPS
Answer GPS requests	On, Off	On	Answer LRRP location requests (Find also finds it as "position"). Without GPS the answer is "no fix"	Works

Connections (key 6)

Setting	Values	Default	What it does	Status
Hotspot allowed	On, Off	On	Lets a hotspot host on USB put the radio in hotspot mode (Hotspot)	Works
Answer radio checks	On, Off	Off	Answer radio checks from other radios (Radio check)	Works
Answer call alerts	On, Off	On	Acknowledge call alerts, so the caller knows the page arrived	Works
TFTP codeplug write	On, Off	On	Lets a computer write the codeplug over TFTP in USB network mode (USB network). Reading is always possible	Works
Message format	ETSI, ETSI short, Motorola	ETSI	The format of the text messages you send (Messages). Messages in any format are received	Works
USB network at start	On, Off	Off	The radio starts as a USB network adapter instead of a serial port (USB network)	Works
PC answers data	On, Off	Off	Control station mode: while the computer is connected in USB network mode, it answers the data sent to your radio instead of the radio (USB network)	Works
USB address	By DMR ID, 192.168.10.x	By DMR ID	The addresses of the USB network link: from your DMR ID, or the fixed pair 192.168.10.1 (radio) and 192.168.10.2 (computer)	Works

Power (key 7)

Setting	Values	Default	What it does	Status
Battery saver	On, Off	Off	On an idle FM channel the receiver sleeps between short listening windows (Battery and power)	Works
Auto power off	Off, 30 min, 1 h, 2 h	Off	Switch off after this time without use (Battery and power)	Works
Low battery warning	5 to 30 %, steps of 5	15 %	Warn when the battery falls to this level (Battery and power)	Works

Keys (key 8)

Setting	Values	Default	What it does	Status
Long press time	400 to 1200 ms, steps of 100	600 ms	How long you hold a key for a long press	Works
Key repeat	60 to 300 ms, steps of 20	120 ms	The repeat rate of Up and Down while held	Works
Up/Down on Home	Channel, Zone, Talk target	Channel	What Up and Down change on Home. Talk target steps through the channel's contact and its listen list on DMR channels. On FM channels they change the channel	Works
Side key 1, Side key 2, Top key	Default, Nothing, Monitor, Talk target, Power level, Next zone, Previous zone, Scan, Key lock, Home zone, Copy to VFO, Call back	Default	What a press of the key does. Default is what the key roles say. Monitor opens the squelch while you hold the key on FM, and turns digital monitor on or off on DMR. Key lock locks and unlocks the keys. Call back talks to the last call heard. Home zone goes to the codeplug's first zone: put your home zone first in the CPS. Copy to VFO copies the channel to the VFO and opens it (the VFO); in the VFO it says "Already in VFO". The list offers it on radios with a VFO	Works
Side key 1 hold, Side key 2 hold, Top key hold	Default, Nothing, Talk target, Power level, Next zone, Previous zone, Scan, Emergency, Key lock, Home zone, Copy to VFO, Call back	Default	What holding the key does. Emergency needs a 1.5 s hold. With Monitor as the press, the hold works on DMR channels; on FM holding the key keeps the squelch open (for an open squelch that stays, use *, 5)	Works

The side key settings are also in the codeplug, so a codeplug written to the radio can set them, and a change here is written to the codeplug. Rows for keys your radio doesn't have are dimmed.

My radio (key 9)

Setting	What it shows
DMR ID and name	Your DMR ID from the codeplug ("not set: set it in qdmr" without one) and the radio model

Advanced (key 0)

Item	What it does
About	"RadioFoundry", the firmware version (commit) and the radio model. Then the authors and the license of each part: RadioFoundry (MIT), the third-party libraries, and the AMBE+2 codec. The codec shows as "stock": it comes from your radio's own firmware and isn't part of RadioFoundry. The page is text in small print, with nothing cut short and no status bar. The status bar comes back during a call. Up, Down or the knob scroll a page longer than the screen
Codeplug	Where the channels come from (built-in or from the CPS), the number of zones and channels
Diagnostics	The diagnostics page (also OK, 6, 7)
Factory reset	Puts every setting back to its default (below)
Crash log	What the last crash left, and sending it to the developers (below)

Factory reset

Settings > Advanced > Factory reset asks "Reset all settings to factory defaults? Channels stay. This can't be undone." The focus starts on "No, keep settings". Focus "Yes, reset" and press OK.

The reset puts every setting back to its default (brightness, radio settings, the privacy key, the channel position), erases RadioFoundry's own data area, and restarts the radio. The codeplug and the calibration stay.

Crash log

When the firmware crashes, the radio keeps a short record of where and why, and restarts. A radio that stops responding for about 3 seconds counts as a crash too: the record says "Hang". Settings > Advanced > Crash log shows the record: what happened, how many crashes in a row, how long the radio ran and the firmware build. Without a record it says "No crash recorded." Switching the radio off may lose the record: look before you turn it off.

Item	What it does
Send report	Sends the record over DMR to the Send to contact, on the current channel. Takes a few seconds on the air; "Crash report sent" or "Crash report not sent" follows
Send to	The contact the report goes to, private or group: pick it from your contacts (type to find)
After a crash	Off: nothing happens at the restart. Ask: the radio asks whether to send the report. Auto: it sends the report without asking. Off is the default
Clear	Forgets the record

With After a crash at Ask, the radio asks once after the restart:

Ask and Auto need a Send to contact and a DMR channel the radio may transmit on. The report is at most about 150 bytes and holds no audio, messages or location: only the crash record and the firmware build. Nothing on the air confirms that it arrived.

A few settings exist in the radio but not yet on the menu:

busy channel lockout and the roger beep;
the scan's resume mode and timing;
VOX sensitivity;
the ARS server and the emergency settings;
the IP data settings (header compression, confirmed data) and the SNMP communities;
the roaming threshold, hysteresis and periodic search;
the SFR idle beacon.

Developers change them over the debug link (tools/rfoundry_debug.py radio set ..., data settings ..., data ip-settings ..., snmp ...). The radio keeps them. The roaming survey and beacon settings are in Tools > Roaming (DMR).

A build without the Settings menu (CONFIG_UI_SETTINGS=n) shows "Set them with qdmr" instead, and keeps the stored values.

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