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Got my G5, programmed it and its working great! The manual is a little sparse... What does it mean when the red battery light flashes randomly? No pattern to it at all, battery is full... Sometimes I'll turn the screen off sleep and it flashes, or during a page.. Does it just indicate that the battery is being used? Manual doesn't really say.
 
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Cheeseburgers said:
Got my G5, programmed it and its working great! The manual is a little sparse... What does it mean when the red battery light flashes randomly? No pattern to it at all, battery is full... Sometimes I'll turn the screen off sleep and it flashes, or during a page.. Does it just indicate that the battery is being used? Manual doesn't really say.
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You may be talking about the LED that blinks to let you know the radio is on?
 
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yep, disabled it. was set to flash every 120 seconds. man, I love this radio..

easy to program, quick, just seems to work without a lot of fussing.

as far as size goes, it reminds me of my old 396xt which I loved.
 
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