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When I woke up this morning, I had two orange lights and one red light on my G5. (The pager was in the desktop charger and should have a full charge.) Cycling power had no effect, so I removed the battery and put it back in. Now the pager is dead. No lights. Nothing.

I'm guessing it's a battery failure and I'm ordering a new one. Has anyone else experienced this?
 

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When I woke up this morning, I had two orange lights and one red light on my G5. (The pager was in the desktop charger and should have a full charge.) Cycling power had no effect, so I removed the battery and put it back in. Now the pager is dead. No lights. Nothing.

I'm guessing it's a battery failure and I'm ordering a new one. Has anyone else experienced this?

How long did you leave the battery out of the G5?
I've seen some posts that seem to indicate it could take a couple minutes for everything to discharge completely. Not sure I believe that myself but I guess it could be true if there are large capacitors used in the design. Worth a try leaving the battery out for 5 minutes or so I guess.

I also recall reading a post here where Unication changed the battery technology used at some point within the last couple years. I forget if the polymer type is the latest type or another is the latest but someone reported Unication swapped their older type to the current type for free after their battery had failed. Might be worth checking with Unication on this.
 

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Thanks. After I posted this, I got to thinking that maybe the problem is as simple as it appears in the pager was just not sitting properly in the charger overnight. I put it back in the charger and it told me that it had a very low battery, so I’m charging it now to see if that’s what the problem was. I appreciate the response.


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Thanks. After I posted this, I got to thinking that maybe the problem is as simple as it appears in the pager was just not sitting properly in the charger overnight. I put it back in the charger and it told me that it had a very low battery, so I’m charging it now to see if that’s what the problem was. I appreciate the response.


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Good luck! Hopefully that will fix er up. I've had issues with what appeared to be bad connections between the charging base and my G5 before.
Usually just reinserting into the base fixes this but I've also cleaned the contacts before on the G5 bottom and very gently, the contacts in the base unit using a clean pencil eraser.
 

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Normally just needs the battery out for a few minutes and then charged for many hours.

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In case anyone else has this happen, it was a completely dead battery. Apparently I didn’t place it on the charger just right.


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If there is a battery failure, you will probably see a notable swelling of the battery case. It was pretty common, but now they seem to be more reliable.

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They went from Li-Poly to Li-Ion batteries.
Swelling of battery does indicate its going bad.
Glad it was just a seating in the charger issue and not something else
 
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