Hi Regina,
I think all of these external batteries basically work the same. The battery should have a regular USB plug in like you have on a computer or on your iPhone wall charger so any cable you can use to charge your phone from the computer or your wall charger will work fine. The battery works just as if you plug your phone in, it provides power to the phone just as your computer or wall charger does. If your phone is at 90% and you plug it into the battery it will charge it back to 100%, if it is at 2% it will do the same and if you totally run down the battery to the point where your phone shuts down automatically, it will take 2 or 3 or maybe even 4 minutes before it turns back on, but once again, this is the same as when you plug it into the wall charger. You will most likely find that the battery will not charge your phone as fast as the wall charger, but my laptop, for example, also takes longer to charge my iPhone and if you plug it into a laptop that is running on battery it's basically no different than if it's plugged into a dedicated external battery. As far as whether the battery is charging the phone or not you can easily see this when you check the status bar, if you are, for example, down to 15% and plug it into the battery, you ccan check the status bar battery indicator. If it says "15%, charging", then obviously it is getting power from the phone. If it continues to just announce 15% and you don't hear the sound it makes when you plug it in your battery is most likely dead. Make sure you ask your husband if your battery has an on/off switch and remember which position is on and which is off so you can be sure the battery is turned on. Regards, Sieghard From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Regina Alvarado Sent: Friday, October 05, 2012 11:46 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: external battery, 7000 Asked about this yesterday so perhaps nobody has one of these so nobody knows how to use? If that is the case, it is fine. I have contacted AT Guys, but apparently they are not in today. My husband was able to tell me how to charge the battery, and at least this time the charger is not hot, just warm, although Aldo says the little square piece getting hot is normal. What I really want to know is whether when charged the battery is used to actually charge the phone with the cable from the iPhone charger or do you use it as if it is a battery with the iPhone cable. Do the external batteries wrk after you run out of internal battery power immediately or do you have to wait an hour or so to have it charge the internal battery again? If nobody has this battery, I guess I should not ask, but how do you know if the battery is turned on? I know there are lights, but I have no vision at all. Thanks in advance for any help, and if not, I guess I will talk to AT Guys on Monday. I saw you can also buy the battery on Speeddots too. Reggie it is not -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en.
