Hand Held Products 7900 - Manual (Page 67)

Dolphin® 7900 User’s Guide Rev F
10/16/07
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Power
Power system settings contains three tabs: Battery, Wireless, and Advanced.
Note: You can also set automatic turn-off times for the terminal to conserve power. When the device is “turned off,” that means
that it goes into suspend mode. For more information on suspend mode, see Suspend Mode on page -11.
Regional Settings
Regional Settings enables you to customize the appearance and formatting to your geographic region. Specifically, you can
customize numbers (i.e., number of decimal places allowed), currency (i.e.,using the $ or
€ € symbol), time, and date. These
specifications apply to all screens, including the Today screen. The Region tab displays an overview of the region selected in the
drop-down list at the top.
Tab Description
Battery Tab
Checks the remaining charge of both the main and backup batteries. For more information about the
terminal’s batteries, see
Battery Power on page 3-10.
Wireless Tab
Determines the power settings for your wireless connection.
Select Wireless signals off… when you don’t want to use system
power to power up the radio(s).
Select Wireless signals on when you want the radio to use system
power to transmit. This is the default settings.
The list contains the radio firmware installed in the terminal. The
items in the list with a check in the checkbox are the items using
system power.
Advanced Tab
Determines power time-outs.
For On battery power, select from the drop-down list, the number
of minutes of inactivity you want to pass before the terminal powers
off when running on battery power.
For On external power, select from the drop-down list, the number
of minutes of inactivity you want to pass before the terminal powers
off when running on external power.
Options below the tabs:
Adjust backlight… opens the Backlight settings so that you can
make adjustments to conserve power usage; see
Backlight on
page 6-7.
Change beam… opens beam settings so that you can make
adjustments to conserve power usage; see
Using Infrared on page
7-5. (You would turn off receiving capabilities to conserve power.)