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Setting Up Your Tablet

Charging the Tablet

CAUTION: Charge the battery in an ambient temperature of 0 °C to 40 °C.

CAUTION: Use only the power adapter and power cable that came with your tablet. Using 
unauthorized power adapters or power cables may cause severe damage to your tablet.

NOTE: The battery is not fully charged when you unpack your tablet.

1. Connect the power cable into the power adapter.

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2. Connect the power adapter to an electrical outlet and charge the tablet until the battery is fully 

charged.

NOTE: The tablet battery requires about 4 hours to fully charge.

NOTE: You can also trickle charge the tablet via micro-USB connection. The battery takes up 

to 24 hours to fully charge depending on the power output of the USB port. The trickle 

charging also works with other non-Dell adapters.

You can check the tablet battery charge status from:

• Battery-charge light located on the front of the tablet:

LED Behavior

Description

Solid white color on

Battery is charging.

Off

Battery is not charging. Either no AC adapter 

is connected or battery is fully charged.

Amber color on Momentarily

– The LED will be solid amber for 2 

seconds and then change to solid 

white. This is an indication that the 

system cannot power on with the 

current state of charge, but the battery 

is being charged.

– Battery is charging

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