Useful Tips

How to extend the "life" of a smartphone battery and how to properly charge it

You always want to be in touch, 24 hours and 7 days a week. But as usual, the phone "dies" at the most unnecessary moment. And planning your day at the outlet is not an option.

How can you make your smartphone battery more tenacious? It is enough to follow 7 simple tips.

1. Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and GPS should only be turned on when you really need them. Since searching for an access point, satellite signal or Bluetooth connection primarily consumes the power of your device.

2. Close applications and programs after you finish using them. For such purposes, you may need a smart task manager. Applications that are open in the background also kill the battery.

3. Decrease the brightness of the screen. Reducing this parameter will significantly save battery power, and this will practically not affect the perception of the image from the screen. Reduce the screen backlight time to the minimum time.

4. Forced use of the checkbox in the "Use only 2G networks" field will use significantly less battery resources and, therefore, extend the active "life" of your smartphone.

5. Changes in temperature have a detrimental effect on battery power. The smartphone should be protected from temperature extremes. In particular, overheating damages the smartphone's battery, and it dries up faster. Extreme frost also has an adverse effect on the battery.

6. Do not restart your phone or smartphone unnecessarily. Rebooting is a very energy consuming process. A vibration alert consumes much more battery power than a simple melody. If possible, it is better to turn off the vibration alert.

7. And if possible, charge your phone. Once fully discharged, the phone forces the battery to work in a boosted mode, which reduces its lifespan.

In order to properly charge the battery on your smartphone, you need to follow four simple tips. These tips will significantly extend battery life.

Tip 1: do not completely discharge

In order for the battery to last longer, you need to discharge it less to zero. Moreover, lithium batteries, you do not need to completely "kill" them. As it turned out, the less the discharge, the more power charging cycles the phone will withstand:

The table shows the dependence of charge cycles on the depth of discharge of the battery.

Tip 2: do not leave the device on charge for a long time

The optimal charge for lithium batteries is 40-80%. In this charging range, the battery will last longer. Do not leave your phone or smartphone charging overnight; for such devices, two to three hours are enough to fully restore the battery capacity.

Tip 3: prevention once a month

From the advice above, the conclusion is that lithium batteries should not be completely discharged, but this is not the case. Once a month, you still need to completely "plant" and replenish the battery resource to the maximum. This allows you to calibrate your smartphone's battery level readings.

Tip 4: keeping the battery cool

It has already been said about the temperature difference, but as an edification, I would like to say it again. High temperatures are detrimental to lithium batteries. In particular, overheating damages the smartphone battery, and it dries up faster, and the lower the temperature, the longer the battery will retain its nominal capacity. The dependence of capacity on temperature is clearly shown in this table:

The second column shows the capacity loss over a year of operation at a 40% charge level, and the third at 100% battery charge.

These guidelines apply to lithium batteries, which are found in most smartphones.These batteries are less demanding than nickel energy sources.

I hope these recommendations will be useful for owners of smartphones and other electronic gadgets. And the battery life will be significantly extended.

Thanks for attention.

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