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Anyone here ever have problems with the battery not staying seated in the pager on a Minitor V? Its not just sliding out a little, but actually enough that the pager loses power.

No... in all of our M5s, the battery is quite tight. There's also a latch that should be engaged to retain the battery.

I've had that problem. After a while it seems the latch slides out of the slot on battery. I've had the pager about 6 months now and it only happened twice. Last time was sunday while sitting in the car, the pager just started shutting off and powering up again. So far I haven't lost the battery.

The batteries on the M V's we have fit very snugly. Have not had a problem with any of them losing contact.

Maybe adding a small piece of thick paper / card stock between the pager and battery to act as a shim?
Does not look like it should interfere with the battery contacts.

I had several pagers with this problem. I found in looking at them that the slider switch was not in correctly. Try popping it out and putting it in the other direction. Hope that fixes your problem.

Problem solved. Latch was in correctly, but not fully locked. Thanks as always guys.

smcrae0 wrote:The batteries on the M V's we have fit very snugly. Have not had a problem with any of them losing contact.

Maybe adding a small piece of thick paper / card stock between the pager and battery to act as a shim?
Does not look like it should interfere with the battery contacts.

That worked great, good suggestion!!!