Reduce Terminal's battery usage
How to improve your terminal's battery life
Battery draining quickly on your payment terminal?
This article provides tips to extend battery life so you can go longer between charges.
Which mode is your terminal in?
Battery drain is mostly caused by:
- The terminal's on-screen display
- Network interactions (e.g. transactions).
To reduce your battery usage:
- We recommend turning on power saving mode, which will cause the backlight of your terminal's display to turn off after a timeout period (the default timeout is 30 seconds).
To turn on power saving mode, follow these steps:
- From the READY screen, press the UP arrow to show the main menu
- Select “SETTINGS”
- Select “POWER MANAGEMENT”
- Select “POWER SAVING MODE”
- The “Status:” should be ON (if the “Status:” is OFF press the green key to change the setting to ON
- Select TIMEOUT
- We would recommend setting it to 30 seconds
- Press the red X to take you back to the Power Saving Menu
- Select BATTERY WARNING
- We would recommend setting it to 5 minutes
- Select AUTO OFF
- The “Status:” should be ON (if the “Status:” is OFF press the green key to change the setting to ON
- Select TIMEOUT
- We would recommend setting it to 60 minutes
- Keep pressing the red X to take you back to the READY screen
- You do not need to reboot the terminal for this setting to take effect.
Battery drain is mostly caused by:
- The terminal's on-screen display.
- Network interactions (e.g. transactions)
To reduce your battery usage:
- We recommend turning on power saving mode, which will cause the backlight of your terminal's display to turn off after a timeout period (the default timeout is 30 seconds).
To turn on power saving mode, follow these steps:
If your terminal's screen says “Ready for transaction” please switch your PDA off.
- From the WELCOME screen, hold down the button with the yellow arrow and then press the UP arrow simultaneously to show the main menu
- Select “SETTINGS”
- Select “POWER MANAGEMENT”
- Select “POWER SAVING MODE”
- The “Status:” should be ON (if the “Status:” is OFF press the green key to change the setting to ON
- Select TIMEOUT
- We would recommend setting it to 30 seconds
- Press the red X to take you back to the Power Saving Menu
- Select BATTERY WARNING
- We would recommend setting it to 5 minutes
- Select AUTO OFF
- The “Status:” should be ON (if the “Status:” is OFF press the green key to change the setting to ON
- Select TIMEOUT
- We would recommend setting it to 60 minutes
- Keep pressing the red X to take you back to the WELCOME screen
- You do not need to reboot the terminal for this setting to take effect.
- You can now pair your PDA with your terminal.
If you have any further questions about this topic please do not hesitate to contact our support team.