Battery Life app

Battery Life app overview

When the administrator enables battery monitoring, the Battery Life app:

  • Displays the current conditions of the phone's battery.

  • Enables an alarm that indicates when the battery is low.

If you do not see any Battery Life details, contact your administrator.


Note

The Cisco Wireless Phone 860 and 860S have an internal secondary battery, which operates the phone during a hot swap. The Battery Life app dashboard displays the general status of the internal battery. For more information about the secondary battery, you can tap Open additional metrics and options.


Caution

Don’t use the Android Battery Saver mode. It curtails functionality to conserve the life of the battery. In Battery Saver mode, features that you rely on may not work. If you require more than one charge per shift, contact your administrator for a second battery.

For your Cisco Wireless Phone 860 and 860S, you can hot swap the battery to maintain connectivity without loss of functionality.

The Cisco Wireless Phone 840 and 840S don't have an internal battery, so they don't support the hot swap feature.

Adjust the Battery Life alarm volume

The administrator controls the Battery Life alarm settings such as the alarm sound, tone, and vibration. However, you can adjust the volume of the Battery Life alarm.

Procedure

Step 1

Access the Battery Life app

Step 2

Tap the Overflow menu.

Step 3

Tap Settings.

Step 4

Swipe the Alarm volume slider.

Stop the Battery Life alarm

If the administrator enables battery monitoring with an audible alarm, an alarm sounds if your battery falls below the set low battery threshold.

When the battery alarm sounds, you can temporarily snooze the alarm. However, the alarm continues until the battery is above the set low battery threshold.


Note

If you’re in a call, the alarm activates in vibrate mode with a visual alert. When the call ends, if you didn’t snooze the alarm, the audible alert begins.


Note

If you set your phone to Do Not Disturb mode and the low battery alarm triggers, it overrides Do Not Disturb and sounds the alarm. After you snooze the alarm, the phone goes into normal mode and remains in normal mode, in effect canceling Do Not Disturb.

Procedure

Step 1

To snooze the battery alarm, swipe the alarm.

Step 2

To stop the battery alarm, either plug the phone into a charger or change the battery to one with more charge than the low battery threshold.