Mistakes that shorten the life of your phone

Mistakes that shorten the life of your phone

By

Mishal Shaheen

Here are some important factors you need to keep in mind if you want to save and even improve battery life of your phone.

1) Recharging your mobile more often

We think that charging our phones more often will drain their batteries more easily. But it is not true in today’s world. Modern lithium ion and lithium polymer batteries have no memory effect so you can recharge them without waiting the reason for this is that many manufactures measure a battery’s life by the number of its full discharge cycles. It is around 400 to 500 cycles, so to increase your battery life you should recharge it more often. The best option is to do it each time the battery indicates a drop.

2) Don’t keep the battery charging all the time

Do you know that batteries suffer if you leave charger plugged after the battery is fully charged, but its not true, either an inbuilt controller stops the battery from taking more time than necessary so there is absolutely no risk of overcharging the battery and destroying it. However, this doesn’t mean that you can constantly keep your phone charging. You need to let the battery work on its own too that’s why you should try to keep the charge between 40 to 80 percent to extend the life of your battery.

3) Buying non-native chargers

Don’t buy cheap chargers. Here’s why: it is unsafe to buy cheap batteries they can be a very low quality and might not have any inbuilt controllers. There have been situations when a person is using a non-native charger and it can cause a fire in the house and another terrible thing that can happen if you use non-native chargers and cables is getting an electric shock.

Here are some other important factors you need to keep in mind if you want to save and even improve
battery life of your phone.

1) Be careful with extra fast chargers

Sometimes, it is necessary to charge your phone very quickly, but we recommend you avoid using chargers that claim to charge your battery full in less than an hour, at least check if the manufacturers of your phone approves using the charger you want.

2) Remove your protective case

If your phone has a bulky, protective case it might cause the device and its battery to over heat during a lengthy recharging session. There are so many different cases in the market that manufacturers don’t keep in mind while designing the case for a phone and its effect on the battery life. So if you are using non-certified protective case, you should always remove it when you need to charge the battery.

3) Drain your battery from time to time

Drain your battery time to time. It is recommended to discharge your phone’s battery every three month to 0% and then immediately charge it to 100%.

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4) Avoid high temperatures

Get rid of the extremes, a full charge, discharge. Avoid high temperatures. It is the worst thing you can imagine for lithium ion batteries. They totally can not stand over heating that’s why you should never expose them to direct sunlight or put them near heat sources, modern cell phones have very high quality screens but even they can’t stand direct sunshine. If you expose the screen to it the display color might fade and if you have dropped your phone, you might know how much it cost to have a screen replaced sometimes it is easier to buy a new phone.