Motorola 9h manual battery charging, conserving battery life, essentials

battery charging

New batteries are not fully charged. Plug the battery charger into your phone and an electrical outlet.

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During charging, the area around the navigation key will light up. When charging is complete, your display shows a full battery icon ^.

Tip: Relax, you can’t overcharge your battery. It will perform best after you fully charge and discharge it a few times.

You can also charge your battery with a USB cable plugged into a computer, unless your battery is completely drained. Use a wall charger or car charger

for completely drained batteries. Install the software from your Getting Started disc onto your PC before you try to charge your phone through USB port. Plug the cable into a powered USB hub or port, since some USB devices (such as keyboards) might not supply enough power for charging.

conserving battery life

•To set how long your phone waits before the backlight turns off, press Start > System Tools

> Settings > More... > Power Management > Backlight time out on battery or Backlight time out on AC. When the backlight is off, the display is visible but dim.

•To close unused programs, from the home screen, press Start > System Tools > Task Manager. Select the program and press Menu > Kill.

•To extend email send/receive intervals, press R, select an email account, press Menu > Settings, and press Next until you can change the Automatic Send/Receive

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