Smartphone batteries haven’t become as smart as the devices they power. They soon run out of juice and cut you off from whatever you want to use your phone for. Pathetic batteries.
When the device is fresh out of the box, the battery seems to hold up. However, the holding capacity of the smartphone battery deteriorates with time. Soon, a phone that used to take you through a whole day will barely last half of it.
What’s happening? Did you miss a page in the keep-your-smartphone-battery-healthy manual? For most people, that’s when the dark arts of insinuation come into play. Sometimes, the reasons you think your smartphone battery health is dwindling are actually myths.
We debunk some of the commonest myths about prolonging the life of smartphone batteries below. They are freaking lies!
Freaking lie 1: Leaving your Phone plugged into the charger overnight is bad for the battery.
Lol ??. This really needs a good laugh. Many people —some in your circle of friends or even the Smartphone salesmen have been spreading this myth for quite a number of years. Consequently, we are forced to have conscious sleep time to prevent our phones from ‘overcharging’.
Hey, take a breather my friend. Your smartphone batteries are not dumb. When you plug in your charger, the battery begins to juice up slowly until it’s full at 4.1 volts. Yeah, we are talking electrical here.
But here’s why you should not wake up to unplug, so you continue having those sweet dreams. After the battery is fully charged, it turns off! “It’s as if it were on the shelf and not connected at all.” says Isidor Buchmann, CEO of Cadex Electronics.
If you are not using a faulty charger, it’s impossible to overcharge your phone’s battery beyond its limit. The only problem is that it’s not advisable to have your battery fully charged to longer periods if you want to give it a fighting chance over time.
However, the Smartphone in most cases may not last long enough to drain the entire life out of the battery. The display may shutter from a fall or it might be stolen. So you don’t have to wake up to unplug your phone. Of course you want it at 100% in the morning to keep you away from the charger for most of the day.
Freaking lie 2: First drain the battery before you charge.
Okay don’t listen to that. Seriously don’t. Lithium batteries don’t like getting hungry, it’s bad for their health. Just like they shouldn’t be kept at full charge, don’t drain them completely either.
Smartphone batteries are healthier when kept between 40 to 80 percent capacity. This is because in this region, their is little discharge. Little discharge translates to little stress on the battery. Lower stress means the battery health won’t deteriorate so much over time.
It’s therefore advisable to charge your phone in intervals throughout the day rather than letting it run from 100% to 0 before charging it again. However, it’s equally important to run down your battery once in a while for calibration purposes.
So what kills smartphone batteries?
Whereas no single factor will lead to complete demise of your smartphone battery, a combination of all of them will ruin battery health. Fully charging the battery, fully depleting, too many charging cycles and lots of heat will unite to kill your battery. The good news is that your smartphone will drop in the toilet long before the battery burns out.
In case you having trouble with your Smartphone battery (and it hasn’t dropped in the toilet yet), visit a genuine shop for a battery replacement or check our article about affordable phones with strong batteries.
