8 Preparing Your Phone for Use
Attaching the Battery
When to Charge the Battery
The nickel metal hydride battery that comes with your phone can be charged
whenever you wish without affecting its performance. This is not the case
with the cheaper nickel cadmium type batteries, often sold as accessories by
other suppliers. For the best talk and standby time in the long run, we recom-
mend that you use only Ericsson original batteries with your phone.
Note! If you charge a new battery, or a battery that has not been used for a
long time, it may take a while until you get an indication of charging.
To remind you that you will soon need to charge the battery or replace it with
a charged one:
• an alarm signal (a long beep) sounds and the message
Battery low
appears
for ten seconds in the display. The signal is repeated several times.
• the indicator light on top of the phone starts flashing red.
Note! The phone turns itself off when the battery can no longer power it
satisfactorily.
2. Press the upper part of the battery
against the phone until you hear
two clicks.
1. Attach the battery to the bottom
part of the phone.
