About Your Phone, Battery and SIM Card
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Your Battery
Charging a New Battery
To ensure maximum battery performance, it is recommended that
a new battery (or battery that has not been used for several
months) be charged for at least 14 hours before use.
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A new battery will require several full charge/discharge cycles
in order to achieve its optimum performance.
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A new battery, or a battery that has not been used for several
months, may cause a premature fully charged indication on
the charger. Ignore this indication and let the battery charge
for several more hours, remove then re-insert the battery into
the charger, and charge for up to 14 hours.
After this initial charge, you can recharge your battery normally,
using the phone’s rapid travel charger.
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See the chart on the following page for charge times.
Important Battery Information
To ensure that you enjoy maximum battery life and use your
battery to its fullest capacity:
• Always use Motorola approved battery chargers.
• For the best results, Li-Ion batteries should be charged using
the E•P Desktop Charger.
• The battery should be at or near room temperature when
charging.
• When not in use, store your battery uncharged in a cool, dark
and dry place.
!
Do not leave a NiCd or NiMH battery connected to any charger
for longer than 24 hours.
Battery Performance and Maintenance
Your phone may have come with one or more of the following
battery types. The talk-times and standby-times given are typical
performance figures:
a. The higher voltage of Li-lon batteries, as compared to NiMH and NiCd, results in greater
efficiencies for talk and standby times with this Motorola handset.
b. Standby times are specified for DRX=2 to DRX=9.
• Best battery performance will be achieved when you regularly
charge and discharge batteries as instructed in this manual.
• Battery performance is greatly dependent on the strength of
coverage of the PCS network.
• Set
Battery Saving Mode to On (see ‘Phone Setup Menu’)
and/or
Frequency of Search to Slow or Medium (see
‘Network Selection Menu’) 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.
Battery Type
a
Part
Number
Talk-Time
up to:
Standby-Time
b
:
Slim 560 mAh NiMH SNN 4615 224 min. 48-59 hours
Slim 400 mAh Li-Ion SNN 4555 163 min. 40-49 hours
Slim Extra Cap 900 mAh Li-Ion SNN 4698 7 hours 3.5-4.5 days
Extra Capacity 1300 mAh NiMH SNN 4258 8.5 hours 4.5-5.5 days
Extra Capacity 1200 mAh Li-Ion SNN 4459 9 hours 5-6 days