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over a year ago
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Put mine on charge at night if it's low so it's fully charged for the next day , then maybe in the evening as well , mines on charge now it's 100% so should last me most of tomorrow now I hope |
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"Someone told me to make sure it fully discharges every once in a while so that's what I do. I have it fully charged before I go out though.
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Someone told me that as well quite a few years ago, but I think that technology has improved batteries so much since then that it's no longer necessary in order to extend a battery's life. |
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By *icketysplitsWoman
over a year ago
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"Someone told me to make sure it fully discharges every once in a while so that's what I do. I have it fully charged before I go out though.
Someone told me that as well quite a few years ago, but I think that technology has improved batteries so much since then that it's no longer necessary in order to extend a battery's life. "
I'm too old to change now.
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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i try to charge mine only once day. i do use it a lot but it seems to have a decent battery.
once your battery is dying/not working well you can't do anything to improve that? |
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Urgh, my battery life on this phone is shite.
I've been online for about half an hour now amd it's gone from fully charged to 70%.
I have to charge it a few times a day, and leave it on charge overnight.
It's a bloody pain. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Mine lasts way too long and I struggle to discharge it but I do like to from time to time ... Otherwise I charge it everyday over night so I know I have nothing to worry about the next day ... |
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over a year ago
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"How do you manage your phone battery? Plug and go as you fancy or do you take particular care of how it's charged, discharged etc?
What's the science and do you aim to benefit from knowing it?"
Proper cycling wont make a major differnce and youd need to be carrying around spare batteries to swap them out when they reached thier limit.
But in general a phone battery will drop to about 70% original capacity after roughly 2 years use.
About the time your contract is up.
If you want to keep the phone just replace the battery with a new one evety few years the lower charge old ones make good back ups still |
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"Mine lasts way too long and I struggle to discharge it but I do like to from time to time ... Otherwise I charge it everyday over night so I know I have nothing to worry about the next day ..."
Fully discharging is for old nickel batteries full discharge is bad for lithium batteries.
But your phone has protection circuits so you battery runs out before its actually fully discharged as otherwise everytime your phone ran our of battery it would damage it |
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I've become more interested after buying a new phone and wanting to preserve the battery as much as possible.
What I've read -
Best not to repeatedly run it flat, with partial top-ups extending battery life a lot.
And an occasional more full near discharge and recharge may be helpful.
I've got made the error of repeatedly getting them from 100% to 0%, which lowers their lifespan quickly and each full charge would last less time, because of this.
So I'm going with cycles of discharging them partially and then refilling them - which for years I would have assumed was bad practice. |
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"I'd read that Wolf, that when you believe it's 0% that it's really not, it's actually above that. "
Yes thats what my second paragraph says
Otherwise you'd potentially risk a fire.
Nost advice youll find for LiPo batteries though will bw for unprotected cells for RC toys etc your phone is pretty idiot proofed.
And targeted to last the phones 2 year lifespan. |
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"Mine lasts way too long and I struggle to discharge it but I do like to from time to time ... Otherwise I charge it everyday over night so I know I have nothing to worry about the next day ...
Fully discharging is for old nickel batteries full discharge is bad for lithium batteries.
But your phone has protection circuits so you battery runs out before its actually fully discharged as otherwise everytime your phone ran our of battery it would damage it"
I am aware of this.. It's why when u put ur charger in its automatically at like 5% |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Of course if you've noticed your phone battery not quite being as good as it once was, or you'd like it to be, it is a motivator for many of us to replace the whole phone more quickly.
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No it's just the limitations of the technology.
Best targeting performance to the actuall expected life span.
Surely you'd rather a battery that lasts a whole day for 2 years than one that lasts 2 hours for 10 years. |
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