Nowadays, every smartphone brand gone forward to fast charging. But you know how fast charging decrease your battery life. And there are a number of factors that contribute to poor battery life on your phone. So there are some practical tips to increase your battery health.But before that there is something you must know.
Typically, a modern phone battery’s (lithium-ion) lifespan is 2 – 3 years, which is about 300 – 500 charge cycles as rated by manufacturers. After that, the battery capacity will drop by roughly 20%.
What is charge cycle?
Above you read a word charge cycles but you know what is charge cycle? The answer is here.
When you charge your smartphone from 0% to 100% then it completes one charge cycle and if you charge 0% to 50% it completes a half charge cycle. Two half charge cycles makes one complete charge cycle.
When you charge your smartphone from 0% to 100% then it completes one charge cycle and if you charge 0% to 50% it completes a half charge cycle. Two half charge cycles makes one complete charge cycle.
Tips to increase your battery life.
1. Keep your battery at 50 %
Keep your battery at 50 %. To increase your battery life charge your phone to 50% or complete a half charge cycle as much as possible because charging your phone fully or complete a full charge cycle increase your number of charge cycles fastly. The fact that is most important is that the battery at 100% become stressed and its temperature starts rising. At 50% the battery is perfect. So charge your smartphone to 50%.
2. Avoid heating
Heating is biggest enemy of battery. Heating decrease the battery life more fastly than other factors. Maintaining the battery temperature is best way for increasing battery life. So avoid heating as much as possible.
3. Use black wallpaper
Use black or boring wallpaper as much as possible. Don't use animated live wallpaper because it these wallpaper consume lot of battery power. By using black or boring background you can increase your battery life because black wallpaper consume very low amount of battery and if you have an AMOLED display then this way of increasing battery life is very beneficial because in AMOLED display the dark LEDs automatically switched off. So use dark background to increase your screen standby time.
4. Try to avoid fast charging
Nowadays , every smartphone comes with fast charging but fast charging decrease battery life. When you charge your smartphone with fast charging your battery become stressful and increase the battery temperature. As you read above that heating is the biggest enemy of battery so don't do this . Fast charging pressurise your battery. So try to avoid fast charging and use normal charging to increase your battery life.
5. Always use original Adapter and USB
Many people know this tip but still they ignore this tip.
Always use original charger and cable. If you don't have original charger so please buy it because using other charger will dicrease your battery life.
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