I read that with the new Lithium-Ion batteries it doesn't matter how often you charge your battery. Is it true? Can I charge my battery every day even if I have 80% left without f**king my battery?
Your phone automatically stops charging ~95% specifically to avoid that.
Its actually a better practice for the battery than complete charge/discharge cycles.
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i bump charge my device almost daily, on all my devices. never a problem with my battery.
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Hi all,
I know that on older phones the battery had to be emptied almost to 0% and the charge it to full. This was done for battery health or something?! Is the true for newer batteries?
Anyway I plan on buying a desktop dock, and i was wondering if it would damage my battery if i charge it when ever i can for random periods of time. Would this decrease my battery life time or in anyway damage it?
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Modern batteries have no memory like old ones did.
If anything frequent charging will increase battery life as 'apparently' modern batteries last longer ( both battery lifetime and discharge time) when kept between 40%-60%.
I have tried a lot of different rom and kernel combos to try to fix my ridiculously bad battery life. I have also tried disabling lte, wifi when not in use, bt, nfc, location services, and a bunch of apps. But my battery life always sucks, even during sleep.
anyway, this causes me to end up charging my phone like 2-4 times a day. I dont want to charge over night because it takes up multiple recharge cycles and batteries come with a limited number of cycles.
So, i am wondering if anyone knows the number of recharge cycles the stock 1850 mah battery on the cdma Gnex has. I have tried googling it to no avail.
Also, i know that charging overnight is not as bad as it was with older batteries, but it still takes up multiple recharge cycles. Im just wondering, is charging overnight not as bad as i think? and for those of you who have been charging our gnex's battery overnight for a while, have you noticed it hurt your battery life at all or is it as good as it was before?
thanks in advance
a normal li-on battery has 500 complete charging cycle.
i kept it charged overnight,it's as good as before.
Be advised a charge cycle equals 0% to 100%, and not how often. Therefore, imagine it as a bottle. If its half full and you top it off, that's half a cycle. If it's 3/4 full and you top it off, that's 1/4 of a cycle.
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Just got the Note 2, and want to make sure that I treat it really well. I've long been uncertain on the best way to treat batteries. Am I supposed to drain it as closer to 0% and then charge it back to 100%, or is it fine to charge it whenever, even if I'm only down to 62% or something at the end of the day? Seeing as how it's brand new, is there anything I should be doing in the immediate future to properly condition the Note 2's battery? Thanks
You can fully charge the battery drops below 20%.
You can do whatever you want. New batteries technology much better than before
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I charge mine every night regardless of percentage (usually around 15% but i sometimes charge over night even at 60%). My battery is still as good as the day i got it.
No need to drain and charge.
Some people say that it reduces the number of cycles of charges the battery can have but it wont make any noticable impact for about 2 years anyway when you're likely to get a new phone anyway, otherwise the cost of a replacement battery is well worth the convenience of charging however you like lol
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with lithium ion batteries, you get more overall charges if you charge it before the battery dies.
ie. 100% drain gives you 500 charges
50% drain gives you 1300 charges.
25% drain gives you 2000 charges.
or something like that. also with lithium ion batteries, its bad to completely drain it. when a lithium ion battery is completely drained, it reduces the overall capacity of the battery. most phones have safeguards in place to prevent a complete drain, but leaving a dead battery out for too long without recharging isnt good.
plus, lithium ion batteries dont have the 'memory effect' so draining them fully is pointless. NiCd and NiMH batteries are the ones that lose voltage if not completely discharged regularly.
Dude ... the battery management technology is good in theory. . To understand. ... but in practical use. ..go ahead and charge it as you like. ..the battery will last good for 2-3 yrs... then you can replace the battery. ..note 2 has a replaceable cheap battery unlike the other new devices that are coming out with no option to replace them
Just enjoy :beer:
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You should charge the lithium battery whenever u can, charging more doesnt hurt it really but draining it to 0% is going to hurt it
JJ2525 said:
Just got the Note 2, and want to make sure that I treat it really well. I've long been uncertain on the best way to treat batteries. Am I supposed to drain it as closer to 0% and then charge it back to 100%, or is it fine to charge it whenever, even if I'm only down to 62% or something at the end of the day? Seeing as how it's brand new, is there anything I should be doing in the immediate future to properly condition the Note 2's battery? Thanks
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Since it's Li-ion battery, it's recommended to partially charge whenever you can to preserve the battery longevity and fully charge it from 0% maybe once a month.
I don't have access to computer so I'm constantly on the phone whenever I'm at Home. And that's a lot. Is it better to keep it charged 24/7 or drain battery to 0 then recharge and cycle?
Drop down to around 20% then recharge. Dont let the phone constantly drop to zero and shut off.
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Unless you are calibrating, like patrao, there's no need to let it get to zero. But I'm like you, I'm on my phone a lot, and if I'm not using it, it's on the charger. So my suggestion, work, car, home, you are certainly ok keeping it on the charger. I do, and have, with every smart phone I've had.
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As long as it doesn't heat up when you charge it, then you are good to go. Heat will reduce the shelf life of a battery.
Whether you charge it 2 times a day or once a week it is only capable of a certain amount of charge cycles. The frequency of charges doesn't change that.
There has been a lot of confusion about charging because of the changing battery technologies (NiCAD, NiMH, etc.). Phones use Li-ion batteries which don't have many restrictions. Many older batteries had to be charged fully then discharged fully because partially charging/discharging a battery would cause the capacity to reduce.
The only consideration for Li-ion batteries (besides not letting them get too hot) is to not let them fully discharge or stay discharged. A vast majority of hardware manufacturers will have your device shut down at ~5-10% charge so as not to damage your battery. If a Li-ion battery fully discharges (which is rare unless done deliberately), then it cannot be recharged. It's totally dead.
tl;dr: Charge early, charge often.
What is the best charging habit for the oneplus 3?, I mean, whet to charge it (percentage left?) And to what percentage?
5% - 20% i guess
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Try to keep the battery level between 25-75% (30 min charge time). Some people also recommend discharging and then fully recharging the battery once a month or so (I personally do not do this).
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Try to keep the battery level between 25-75% (30 min charge time). Some people also recommend discharging and then fully recharging the battery once a month or so (I personally do not do this).
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Yeah I've read lithium batteries prefer to be in that range.
Here's a good summary table. OP3 and most modern phones use a lithium ion battery
http://batteryuniversity.com/learn/article/do_and_dont_battery_table
Fully discharging/recharging (more commonly known as a full cycle) myth come from the nickel-cadium battery. Since then we have the NiMH battery and now we have the lithium battery.
Ni-Cd battery have the memory effect, when recharging repeatedly not fully discharged cell resulted in a loss of capacity.
Ni-MH minimize this effect and li-ion virtualy don't have memory effect. I mean by that, fully discharging the battery and recharging it totally won't restore the lost capacity, in the case of Ni-Cd it restore the capacity, that's why so many people recommend to do it not knowing it's useless and in the case of li-ion, is not good as it prefer incomplete cycle to full cycle.
Quick charging is bad too, yes dash charging is so usefull when you need to charge it quickly but if you care about your battery life, don't use it every night.
Anyway whatever how you treat your phone battery, in 2-3 years the battery will lose most of his capacity