Customizing Your DeviceOctober 21, 2003T-Mobile Sidekick Owner’s Manual381Color Battery & Display screen:2In the first group box, Battery, you can observe the percentage of charge remaining in your battery (this number is approximate). If your battery is connected to the charger, however, you’ll see a lightning bolt on top of the battery icon and the word “Charging” instead of the charge-remaining percentage.Grayscale devices: In the Battery group box you can enable Power-Saving Mode, which means your screen will “blank” after a period of idle time has past. To enable, you must check the box and setting an idle time. (For color devices, power-saving mode is not available.) Select from the following idle times:• 5 minutes• 10 minutes• 30 minutes• 1 hour• 3 hoursNote! You must first set a Key Guard time in order for power-saving mode to work! For details, read Key Guard & Security.Grayscale devices: If your device goes into power-saving mode (the screen blanks), the wheel will glow a color, indicating the amount of charge left in the battery: • Green glow = 100 - 50% charge• Yellow glow = 50% charge• Orange/red glow = 25 - 0% charge! Connect your charger immediately!3In the second group box, Backlight, you can set your backlighting options:• If you want backlighting to turn on automatically after you press a control button or key, or open the display, then select the Automatically turn on when in using device check box.• Color devices: You can choose to have the built-in light meter automatically turn the backlight on when required by light conditions. To choose this option, select the Use backlight only when needed check box. This option saves battery life.• If you never want backlighting to turn on automatically, then make sure you haven’t select any automatic backlight check box.Note: You can always manually turn on backlighting by pressing Jump+Back , which opens the Display Control, or by pressing Menu+Jump .
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