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Battery
Charging the battery
Before you can use your telephone, the battery must be
charged.
Put the handset into the cradle of the base station or
charger (accessories) with the keypad facing forwards.
When the battery is flat, »
Ä
« flashes in the handset
display. It has a charging cycle from 12 to 15 hours.
Charging status of the battery
The charging status of the battery appears in the dis-
play.
The number of bars show the charging status of the
battery (»
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« flat, »
Ü
« charged). When the
battery is almost flat, the display flashes »
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«, the
backlight for the display does not come on and a
warning signal sounds (if you have not deactivated it,
see section on “Settings”, on page 64). This also
happens if a battery that is charging is removed briefly
and then replaced. New batteries usually reach their
full capacity once they have been charged several
times. Although the battery display shows that the
battery of a handset is charged, you should take into
account that the length of normal calls and availability
time is limited at the beginning.
Operating time of the battery
The operating time of the battery in standby is up to
five days or up to ten hours for longer calls.
Service life of the battery
To increase the service life of the battery, note the
following:
– Do not short-circuit the plug.
– Use your handset as a mobile phone and do not
replace it in the base station or charger (accessories)
to be charged after every phone call.
INITIAL SETUP
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