Low battery warning, Charging your battery using the power adapter – Motorola PCS telephone User Manual

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About Your Phone, Battery, and SIM Card

13

With two batteries attached, total talk- and standby-time
available is the sum of both main and auxiliary battery times.

Best battery performance will be achieved when you regularly
charge and discharge batteries as instructed in this manual.

Set

Battery Saving Mode

to On (see

Phone Setup Menu

on page 49) and/or

Frequency of Search

to Slow or

Medium (see

Network Selection Menu

on page 54) to extend

the life of the battery between charges.

Keep the antenna fully extended whenever possible to ensure
maximum signal strength.

Expected life of a battery is about 300-500 charge/discharge
cycles.

If left unused, a fully charged battery will discharge itself, at
about 1-2% per day, on average.

Low Battery Warning

When the battery level is low and only a few minutes of talk-time
remain, your phone will alert you in three ways:

A warning signal (two double beeps) will sound

The battery symbol

will begin to flash slowly

Low Battery

will be displayed

When the battery is completely discharged, your phone will turn
off. Simply install a fresh battery or recharge the exhausted
battery to begin using your phone again.

If you have an auxiliary battery fitted, it is used before the main
battery. A tone sounds when changing to the main battery.

Charging Your Battery Using the Power
Adapter

The power adapter can be connected directly to your phone for
convenient rapid battery charging. It will charge the batteries
fitted to your phone, charging the main battery first to 95%
capacity, then switching to charge the auxiliary battery
(if attached).

To charge:

1

Fit one or two batteries onto your phone.

2

Snap in AC plug into the top of the power adapter.

3

Plug the power adapter to the phone.

4

Insert the power adapter plug into a 110V AC electrical outlet.

A beep-tone sounds and the battery icon flashes when charging
begins.

A

Your phone can be either on or off during charging.

The state of charging is monitored and displayed by your phone.

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