4 tips to improve your phone's battery life
Taking care of your phone's battery is easier and more economical than replacing a phone's lithium-ion battery. In addition, taking care of the battery and extending the life of your phone's battery is great for our global environment. After all, lithium batteries cause a large amount of electronic waste. When depleted batteries are thrown into the garbage, they end up in landfills where the batteries decompose and leak. When batteries corrode, the chemicals in the batteries seep into the soil and contaminate groundwater and surface water. Our ecosystems, which contain thousands of aquatic flora and fauna, are damaged when they are filled with battery chemicals.
To prevent adding more battery waste to landfills and damaging our environment while saving money by not having to replace your phone's battery at your local phone repair shop like Burnaby Phone Repair, Surrey Phone Repair, Calgary Phone Repair or via Mail at Phone Repair, use these tips!
1. Avoid extreme cold or heat
Avoid placing your phone in a very hot or very cold place. If your phone is in a very hot or cold environment, the environment can strain the battery and shorten the battery life. You should avoid putting your phone in places like your car because your car can get very hot during the summer or sunny outside and very cold when it snows or during the winter.
2. Avoid fast charging
Charging your phone quickly increases the pressure on the phone's battery which reduces your phone's battery life. It is recommended to charge slowly to extend the battery life of your phone. For example, you can charge your phone from your computer or through certain smart plugs. Charging your phone through these ports restricts the current entering your phone, slowing down the charging rate. This mostly applies to older phone models, while newer phone models are better at handling fast charging.
3. Avoid draining your phone's battery to 0% or fully charging to 100%
Older types of rechargeable batteries have "battery memory". This means that if you do not fully charge these batteries and discharge them to zero, these batteries "remember" and reduce their useful range. This type of rechargeable battery is better for its life if you are always draining the battery and charging the battery until it is completely full.
Newer phone batteries work differently. Batteries tighten when batteries are out or fully charged. It is best to use phone batteries if you keep them above 20% of capacity and below 90% full. For optimal performance, the battery capacity should be about 50%.
To maximize the life expectancy of your phone's battery, you can charge your phone by about 50% to 90% and you can stop charging. At a minimum, you can charge when the battery capacity reaches 20%. In addition, as mentioned above, you can use slow charging to extend the battery life of your phone.
4. Charge your phone to 50% for long-term storage
As mentioned above, the healthiest charge of a lithium-ion battery is about 50%. If you are going to store your phone for a long time, charge it to 50% before turning it off and storing it. This approach is considered healthier for the battery compared to charging the battery to 100% or draining the battery to 0% before storage.