Samsung SGH-T679DBWTMB - Manual (Page 17)

Getting Started 13
Important! If your handset has a touch screen
display, please note that a touch
screen responds best to a light touch
from the pad of your finger or a non-
metallic stylus. Using excessive force
or a metallic object when pressing on
the touch screen may damage the
tempered glass surface and void the
warranty. For more information, refer
to “Standard Limited Warranty” on
page 234.
Low Battery Indicator
When the battery level is low and only a few
minutes of talk time remain, a warning tone
sounds and the “Low battery” message repeats
at regular intervals on the display. In this
condition, your phone conserves its remaining
battery power, by dimming the backlight.
When the battery level becomes too low, the
phone automatically turns off.
Extending Your Battery Life
Active applications, light levels, Bluetooth usage,
and GPS functionality all act to drain your
battery. The following is a list of helpful tips that
can help conserve your battery power:
• Reduce your backlight on time.
• Turn Bluetooth off when not in use.
• Turn Wi-Fi off when not in use.
• Deactivate the GPS when not needed. Most
applications using this function will periodically
query the GPS satellites for your current location;
each query drains your battery.
• Do not wait until your battery is completely depleted
before charging your device. Repeating this process
of a complete discharge and recharge can over time
reduce the storage capacity of any battery.
• Turn off Automatic application sync.
• Use the Power Savings Widget to deactivate
hardware functions such as Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPS,
Synchronization, or LCD brightness setting.
• Check the Battery use screen to review what
features or functions have been consuming your
battery resources.
• Check the Running Services and close any
unnecessary applications.
• Use the Task Manager feature to end/shutdown
background applications that are still running.
These minimized applications can, over time, cause
your device to “slow down”.
• Turn off any streaming services after use (see
Running Services).
• Animated wallpapers use processing power,
memory, and more power. Change your Live
Wallpaper to a non-animated Wallpaper gallery or
Gallery image.