Service manual

June 21, 2004 1-9
NP88 FLEX GENERAL
Product Overview
VIBRA-Page
®
Operation
VIBRA-Page is a standard feature in NP88 FLEX pagers. The pager is
equipped with a miniature motor causing the pager to vibrate when a message is
received in the silent mode.
Pagers operating in the silent mode do not produce a tone alert. Instead, when a
page is received, only the vibrator and the alert lamp activate.
The silent mode permits the pager to receive a paging call while inhibiting the tone
alertingcircuit. The silentmodeis used when thealerttonewould disturbtheuser
or others in the vicinity, such as in a conference room or library. When this mode
is selected, the speaker icon is displayed with a slash through it ([).
When the user switches to this mode, the pager vibrates for two seconds. When a
page is received, the pager vibrates for eight seconds (unless in lo cell mode).
Message Features
The pager’s unique codes permit the display of messages intended only for that
pager.ThemessageisnotdisplayeduntiltheOn/Read/Select( )buttonispressed.
Capacity
Forasinglepage,thepagercanreceiveanddisplaymessagesofupto20 characters,
12 characters at a time.
Memory
Duplicate Message Indicator
When a message is received, the pa ger compares t he new message to all messages
stored in memory. If the new message is exactly the same as a message already in
memory a duplicate message indicator (duplicate) displays at the beginning of the
latest message. This lets the user know the message has been received more than
once. It als o prevents duplicate messages from occupying more t h an one memory
slot. The new message contains the latest t ime stamp.
Duplicate message detection is not applicable to tone-only messages.
FLEX models: The pager stores up to 16 of the most recent messages, up to 320
total characters.
A page received when memory is full caused the oldest read message to be overwritten
This overwrite feature allows the pager to automatically clear itself of old pages as
new pages are received.