Many of us feel dissatisfied when they see our phone's battery condition worsening day after day and draining out after a few hours. He is forced to buy new batteries one by one. Many experts attributed this to our habits with charging and handling the battery, as this has a great impact on it. This is because most of us do not charge our phone in the correct way for long periods and then complain afterwards. Therefore, we will learn together in this article on easy ways that you can through their application to ensure that the battery works more efficiently from the first moment of owning the phone. If you follow these methods for the life of your phone, you will undoubtedly take full advantage of the battery's potential.

Most of us plug our phones into the charger before bed, and let the phone charge overnight. It turns out that this has a damaging effect on the battery. As the components of the lithium battery in particular are affected by this process - Check out this article Cadax, a company specialized in testing smartphones and batteries, offers a free educational website about batteries, their composition and how to use them, called "Battery University" or Battery University . BusinessInsider developed a set of tips to extend battery life and improve battery efficiency:

Mindful advice: Avoid extreme heat

The enemy number 1 without a rival to batteries is heat, as it destroys them. Apple states on its official website that the ideal temperature is from zero to 35 in the case of the iPhone, iPad, iPod and Apple Watch, and for Mac devices it is from 10 to 35 degrees. The main problem is that you charge your phone in a very hot environment, such as charging it in the car and exposing it to the sun, and the air conditioning does not work, for example. This is a disaster for the batteries. The charging itself increases the temperature of the devices. If you are in a place where the temperature exceeds 30 degrees and there is no air cooler, we recommend that you do not charge your phone in it because you are thus exposing it to damage. "Heat damage is cumulative and not immediate."

If you always charge your phone at high temperatures of up to or more than 40, then all other advice is secondary to you, so whatever you do, it will be damaged.

Charge your phone in continuous doses

In the past, battery technologies were primitive, which exposed the battery to damage from charging for short periods; Every battery has a lifetime, and every connection to the charger means a charging cycle, but the matter is different now with lithium-ion polymer batteries, which are not affected by short charges with the same harm as old generations. Rather, charge cycles count with full discharge. For example, if you used your phone's battery from 80% to 20% “it consumed 60%” then charged your phone to 50% and used it to 20% “used an additional 30%” and then charged it to 86%, so here is the sum of the above “consumption” means 90% when you consume 10 %, So it is considered the cycle charge consumed. In the past, the above meant 3 charging cycles because you connected it 3 times to the charger.

The following image shows the charging cycle, which is from the official Apple website

Therefore, there is no reduction in the charge for short periods and it is not required that it reach 100%, and the harm of leaving the phone for long periods of time, i.e. an entire night connected to the charger, is greater. The Battery University website stated that charging at rates that vary each time between 10% or 20% does not cause any damage.

Never let your phone's battery run out completely

We used to think, for a very recent time, that whenever the battery was discharged and charged from zero to 100%, this is good for the battery, but the opposite has been proven, as experts mentioned that deep discharging the battery and then fully charging it, is in fact a bad thing for the battery, not only that, but also makes it run out. Quickly.

Keep your battery charged between 65% to 75%, that's better

One of the impossible tips to implement, which is more theoretical than practical, but we will mention it to our followers is that there is a level when the battery is on it, it is the best level just like cars that have a speed at which they become less fuel consumption "often around 90 kilometers". In batteries this level is 65% to 75%. And of course because it's impossible for any of us to sustain it, so researchers state that the next level is 45% to 75%. The third level is 25% to 75%, which is the maximum level, and it is not recommended that the battery be less than the 25% limit.

Do not fully charge your battery

We definitely remember the days of the old Nokia 3310 phone and the advice to charge its battery 24 hours before using it, this is due to the type of battery and its components. Today's battery is made of lithium, which is depended upon even in space. It does not need a full charge, especially from a low rate of less than 25%. Remember that while charging, the "gold first advice" temperature increases, and when you empty your phone and put it in the charger for two hours, this is where you get the highest possible temperature.

last word

Other than heat, there is nothing that can kill the battery so you don't have to follow all the advice. Companies are constantly developing their phones and batteries; And most phones now stop charging when it reaches 100%, so do not worry about leaving it for long periods. "There is damage, but not so much." If you have to empty the battery to zero for any reason, do not worry either. Battery damages are cumulative. That is, if you do a bad habit, whether charging in a high temperature or completely discharging, charging, etc. and you repeat this matter tens and hundreds of times, here the damage will occur; But if you do this infrequently so that it happens to you once a week, don't worry, there will be no noticeable damage.

The aforementioned advice applies to all devices and is not limited to a company or product; There may be slight differences in the case of laptops, but the basic tips such as heat, discharge, and full charge remain valid.

Tell us how you ship your phone? Are there any tips or information that were new to you in this article?

Sources:

BusinessInsider | Apple  | BristolPost

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