Prolonging Battery Life; Resetting Your Handheld; Performing A Soft Reset - Palm Zire 21 Handbook

Appendix A Maintaining Your Handheld

Prolonging battery life

Note the following considerations for the battery in your handheld:
Under normal conditions your handheld battery should remain charged when
you connect it to the cable every day. You can conserve battery life by changing
the Auto-off setting that automatically turns the handheld off after a period of
inactivity. See
If the battery becomes low in the course of normal use, an alert appears on the
handheld screen, describing the low battery condition. If this alert appears,
perform a HotSync
connected to the cable to recharge the unit. This helps prevent accidental data
loss.
If the battery drains to the point that your handheld does not operate, it stores
your data safely for about a week. In this case there is enough residual energy
in the battery to store the data, but not enough to turn on your handheld. If your
handheld does not turn on when you press the power button, you should
recharge the unit immediately.
If your battery drains and you have the unit in an uncharged state for an
extended period of time, you can lose all your stored data.
There are no serviceable parts inside your handheld, so do not attempt to open
the unit.
If you ever dispose of your handheld, please dispose of it without damaging the
environment. Take your handheld to your nearest environmental recycling
center.

Resetting your handheld

Under normal circumstances you will not have to use the reset button. On rare
occasions, however, your handheld may no longer respond to buttons or to the
screen. In this case you need to perform a reset to get your handheld running again.

Performing a soft reset

A soft reset tells your handheld to stop what it's doing and start over again. All
records and entries stored in your handheld are retained with a soft reset. After a
soft reset, the Preferences screen appears and the Date and Time option is
highlighted so you can reset the date and time if needed.
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"Auto-off after" in Chapter 14
® operation to back up your data; then leave your handheld
for more information.