Wrong Facts About Smartphone Charging

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Wrong Facts About Smartphone Charging

Post by chandoo » Jun 01, 2015 Views: 10263



Over time we have heard a number of tips about how to charge our phone and what is effective while what damages phone's batteries. Although a few of those rules and tricks might hold some water and are true, most of them are just rumors based upon something that someone once heard somewhere. Smartphone batteries have evolved quite a lot over the years actually and therefore, we just had to compile this list about charging myths that are not true at all.



5. Don't charge your phone until it's completely dead.



Deep charges will result in phone battery becoming unstable actually. Charge your phone every day and don't let it go beyond 20% as a rule of thumb. The battery has finite number of charge cycles, always remember that.



4. You don't need to turn your phone off ever.



The opposite is true actually. You should ideally switch off your phone once in a week to preserve battery life and restore it.



3. Charging your phone overnight kills the battery.



Your smartphone is a smartphone for a reason; it knows when to stop charging. Once the battery is fully charged, the charger will cut off charging and battery isn't in use anymore. However, it is a good practice to keep the phone charged between 40% and 80%.



2. You shouldn't use your phone while it charges.



Oh come on, use it all you want and need given that you are not using a third-party charger. Those who will tell you about this rule shall also cite an incident where a phone exploded when it was being used while charging. The reports later on confirmed that the user was making use of a third-party charger.



1. Using off-brand chargers destroys batteries.



As long as it's not the knockoffs that you're using, it is good. Cheap knockoffs are what will damage your battery and smartphone. Off-brand chargers such as those by Belkin and KMS are perfectly okay.


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Post by alexzorg » Jun 05, 2015

thanks for this very informative post :)
i'm never going to charge my phone at night


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Post by Barnaby » Jul 16, 2015

While fully charging a battery will potentially lessen the life of a battery, it could take years for a noticeable effect... And in reality, how many people will continue having the evo once their contract is up, and the recent/upcoming lte releases become free with upgrade down the road...

Not to mention letting the phone discharge too low is not great for a battery either...

I concur on battery stats not needing to be wiped...

Nice post overall, and some really good information presented, thank you for sharing.


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Post by fanmilly » Nov 07, 2015

looks good


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