When disconnected from a power source (wall charger or PC), the QubiBox™ runs on its Lithium-Polymer high capacity rechargeable battery (450mAh). Please note the following recommended guidelines to keep the battery running longer:

- the battery allows one-week recharge cycle under typical stand-alone usage conditions, but it should be fully charged at least once each 30-day interval;

- allowing the battery to fully discharge down to the empty state will reduce the battery's lifetime and require a recovery procedure;

- when you see the LED emitting a short intermittent red pulse it means that the battery needs to be charged.

To activate the Bluetooth chip of the QubiBox™, keep it disconnected from any other equipment, press the power button and release it when the LED shows a blue pulsing light. This indicates that the QubiBox™ is now discoverable as a Bluetooth device ready to connect with the QubiBox™ application. After about 3 minutes idle without any connection over Bluetooth, the QubiBox™ will automatically switch off to save battery.

To access the QubiBox™ mass storage, connect it to the USB port of any working PC. When the device detects a connection over USB it will switch to USB ready mode and the LED will start emitting a green solid light.

In this mode, after the required drivers are automatically loaded by the operating system, two new removable storage devices will be shown on the PC: a CD Drive (listed as QubiBox Info) where you can find the Quick User Guide and Warranty information, and a Removable Disk which becomes accessible for reading/writing data only after you press the QubiBox™ function button for about 5 seconds. If you unplug (safe eject) the QubiBox™ from the PC, after about 3 minutes in USB standby mode without reconnection, the device will automatically switch off to save battery power.