Making Your Cell Phone Batteries Last Longer
Here at Laptops for Less, we want to help you get the most out of your electronics. Powering them with quality batteries is the first step, but there are also some tricks to maximize the lifespan and performance of your cell phone batteries.
- For New Cell Phone Batteries
This first tip will be helpful if you’re working with a brand new phone battery. Batteries, like puppies, should be trained. Of course you’re excited to get started using your battery, but a little patience will pay off; don’t use the battery until you’ve given it a full charge. Taking this extra step will allow your battery to achieve its maximum power storage capacity. - Using Less Power
All the features that new cell phones include are fantastic, but they also suck up battery power like crazy. The more you web-surf, text, and use Bluetooth devices with your phone, the faster its battery will conk out. The first lesson here is that if your phone is on the brink of dying and you just need it to hang on for a couple more hours to get through the day, use its advanced features as little as possible. Of course, there’s no point in having those features if you don’t use them, so this should only be followed in an extremity. The second lesson that when it’s at all possible to turn off features you’re not using, do it and conserve battery life. Case in point: when you’re not actually talking into your Bluetooth headset, turn it off. Keeping a Bluetooth connection open can drain battery power quickly. Features you may not even notice like lights, sounds, and vibrate functions may be draining power, too. Your cell phone likely has options to turn these features off or use them for shorter intervals of time, so take advantage of them. - When to Charge Up
If you’ve got a newer cell phone, it probably uses lithium-based cell phone batteries. If this is the case, it’s best to avoid running your cell phone battery all the way until it dies. Repeatedly discharging lithium batteries fully can damage them. On the other hand, if you’ve got an older phone that uses nickel cadmium or nickel metal hydride batteries, the opposite is true. Discharging nickel-based batteries all the way means they can be recharged all the way. So, in short, charge a lithium-based battery when it’s low on power and charge a nickel-based battery when it’s dead. - Optimal Conditions
Okay, so this is mostly common sense, but only mostly, so keep reading. Store and treat your battery carefully. You don’t want it to get too hot, so don’t leave it in your car during the summer. That’s the common sense part. Less obvious: don’t keep your cell phone in your pocket if you can help it. Being in contact with your body temperature for extended periods of time heats up the battery to temperatures that can damage it.
Nothing too hard there, right? Taking care of your cell phone batteries requires only a little extra effort and it will repay you with more power and a longer battery lifespan.
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