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Smart Battery
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The "Smart" Battery for Motorola is Lithium Ion Impress. There is no special Flashcode needed on the radio, you just need an impress battery. They are fairly expensive. When you get the Impress Battery, you should update your radio in CPS and add the "Battery" Menu, it's extremely easy. This will tell you certain info about your battery that can be helpful.
Also if you really like seeing data, you could buy a used Impress 6 gang Display charger that displays various information while the battery is charging. You need minimum charger firmware of 3.4, preferably 3.9. But honestly it's probably overkill if you only have 1 radio.
Also if you really like seeing data, you could buy a used Impress 6 gang Display charger that displays various information while the battery is charging. You need minimum charger firmware of 3.4, preferably 3.9. But honestly it's probably overkill if you only have 1 radio.
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Note that a "real" IMPRES battery should have IMPRES, in cap bold italics on the label (note spelling). There are various levels of imitation going on out there, including a battery company named Impress, and people selling batteries with "impress" or even "IMPRES" in the title and/or description, like this and this. I've no experience in whether they actually bother to clone the circuitry that's present in the real deal, but I doubt it, and wouldn't want to find out the hard way.
I don't know if it's legit, but older stuff might have an "impres" stylized logo in lower-case with "Intelligent Battery", like the box of this one, but I see the upper-case logo on the battery in the window of the box (though the out-of-box pic is of a different battery than the boxed one).
I don't know if it's legit, but older stuff might have an "impres" stylized logo in lower-case with "Intelligent Battery", like the box of this one, but I see the upper-case logo on the battery in the window of the box (though the out-of-box pic is of a different battery than the boxed one).
Notice the “p” has a larger hump and the “s” has a larger middle section. Obviously a fake. Or not.
I agree, just purchase from a reputable place and you’ll be fine.
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