Getting To Know Your Phone; Optimizing Battery Life - LG Optimus extreme User Manual

Getting to know your phone

Before you start using the phone, please read this!
Please check to see whether any problems
you encountered with your phone are
described in this section before taking the
phone in for service or calling a service
representative.
1. Phone memory
When there is less than 10% of space
available in your phone memory, your
phone cannot receive new messages. You
need to check your phone memory and
delete some data, such as applications
or messages, to make more memory
available.
To uninstall applications:
1 From the Home screen, touch
Apps tab > Settings
the DEVICE category.
2 Once all applications appear, scroll to
and select the application you want to
uninstall.
3 Touch Uninstall and OK to confirm.
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2. Optimizing battery life

Extend your battery's life between
charges by turning off features that you
don't need to having running constantly
in the background. You can monitor
how applications and system resources
consume battery power.
Extending your phone's battery life:
• Turn off radio communications you are
not using. If you are not using Wi-Fi,
Bluetooth or GPS, turn them off.
• Reduce screen brightness and set a
shorter screen timeout.
• Turn off automatic syncing for
Gmail™, Calendar, Contacts and other
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applications.
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• Some applications you have downloaded
may reduce battery power.
To check the battery power level:
• From the Home screen, touch
Apps tab > Settings
phone from the SYSTEM category >
Status
The battery status (charging or not
charging) and level (percentage charged) is
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