Motorola XOOM - Tips for extending battery life

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Things you should know about charging your battery.

New batteries are not fully charged. Plug the battery charger into your tablet and an electrical outlet. Your tablet might take several seconds to start charging the battery.

Caution: Please read the battery use and safety text in the important legal and safety information packaged with your device.

Note: The battery is removable by a trained service technician.

Tips to extend battery life:

Select a shorter backlight duration
Lower the display brightness
Use the AC adapter to charge your device whenever possible
Turn Bluetooth off when not in use
Turn Wi-Fi off when not in use
Certain applications may be drawing excessive battery power. If you are experiencing shorter battery life after downloading an application try uninstalling the application
Close any third party applications running in the background
Playing music, videos and viewing images will affect your battery life
The battery charger shipped with this device is a high rate charger specifically designed for your device
Use only the charger that came with your tablet or the Motorola XOOM dock to charge your tablet. The USB port is used for data transfer only, NOT for charging.
Some Marketplace applications can drain battery unexpectedly with data requests and processes running in the background. Deleting widgets alone for these applications will not stop the application from pulling the data; the application itself must be uninstalled or killed temporarily with a Task Manager or App Killer.
If you know you won’T be near a mobile or Wi-Fi network for a while, switch to Airplane mode.
You tablet uses extra power to search for mobile networks.


Check the battery charge level

On the Home screen, press Apps and touch Settings > About tablet> Status.
The battery status (charging, discharging) and level (as a percentage of fully charged) are displayed at the top of the screen.


Monitor and control what uses the battery

The Battery Use screen shows which applications consume the most battery power.
You can also use it to turn off applications that you’ve downloaded, if they are consuming too much power.
On the Home screen, touch Apps and touch Settings > Applications > Battery use.

The Battery Use screen lists the applications that have been using the battery, from greatest to least battery use.

The discharge graph at the top of the screen shows the pace of battery discharge since you last changed the tablet (short periods of time when you were connected to a charger are shown as thin green lines at the bottom of the chart), and how long you’ve been running on battery power.

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