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How To Best Take Care Of Your Smartphone Battery by Adewakeup1(m): 6:18pm On Dec 25, 2013
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Wheneve you have the chance, always make sure you give your smartphone that extra charging.
Make sure it is always at the North of 50%
It is good to do one full discharge once in a month, but don't do it too often.
Don't keep charging your phone all the time, Lithium-ion batteries can get over-heated,
Leaving it plugged when it is already full is going to cause a little degradation.
Battery don't like being all the way full. In fact, your battery will behave the best if you take it off the charge before it hits 100 percent.
So if you're really particular about optimizing your battery's life, you should try to go from around 40 percent to around 80 percent in one go, and then back down whenever possible.

KEEP IT COOL
Your smartphone battery will degrade much more faster when its hot, regardless of wether its being used or just siting idle.

At an average temperature of 32 degrees fahrenheit, a lithium-ion battery will lose six percent of its maximum capacity per year. At 77 degrees, that number jumps to 20 percent, and at 104 degrees it's a whopping 35. Sure, it's not exactly practical (or sane) to keep your phone in the fridge, but it's worth going out of your way to prevent long stays in hot cars and the like.

NEVER STORE IT IN ZERO STATE
Obviously, using your battery is going to make it degrade. But it's going to slowly die even if you just leave that iPad in the closet for a bit. There's a trick to minimizing that inevitable aging though: leave it a little bit of juice.

If you're going to be shelving any lithium-ion battery for a long time, try to leave it with at least 40 percent battery power to tide it over. Lithium-ion batteries don't hemmorage power at 30 percent a month like nickel-metal-hydride batteries do; they'll lose maybe five to ten percent of their charge each month.

And when lithium-ion batteries get too low—like, literally zero percent—they get seriously unstable, and dangerous to charge. To prevent explosion-type disasters if you do try to charge one, lithium-ion batteries have built-in self-destruct circuits that will disable (read: destroy) the battery for good, if it reaches rock bottom. And sure, that'll save you from a face full of battery-acid, but it'll also leave you short one battery.

DON'T SWEAT IT TOO MUCH
It's easy to get protective of your battery, but it's also easy to get lazy. And that's fine, because as long as you're not a complete idiot, you'll be OK. Typically, a lithium-ion battery lasts for three to five years, and chances are you're going to want to swap out your gadgets sometime in that window anyway. The slight damage of a technically bad idea like leaving your phone plugged in all night every night, or using wireless charging, might be worth the convenience.

Still, it's pretty easy to keep your battery reasonably healthy just by avoiding particularly egregious torture like letting your phone discharge from full to zero every single day, or leaving it in a hot car all the time. And the next time you make it back home with power to spare, you'll thank yourself for it.

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Re: How To Best Take Care Of Your Smartphone Battery by 2map(m): 8:25am On Dec 26, 2013
thanks op

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