Charging your phone should help your battery life, but if you charge your phone and your battery isn't lasting long as it used to be. Check Out and if you are in any of this categories, you are the course of your phone problem. You can also check here on things that drain your battery life.
1. Charging Your Phone With Cover Case on.
Your phone typically emits heat when charging. To avoid exposing your device to ambient temperatures, it’s advisable to remove the phone case while charging your phone so that the heat emitted from your phone while charging can escape.
This way you can prevent your device from becoming hotter and potentially overheating when charging. Charging your battery at uncomfortable temperatures can permanently damage battery capacity.
2. Charging Your Phone At Very Low Battery Level
Waiting for your battery to reach critically low level before charging is bad. The effect of this on your phone battery is not immediate, but over time it begins to manifest and it eventually stresses out your phone battery (yes, batteries get stressed too) and shortens the battery life. Think of your battery as a human body, you really don’t need to wait until you’re about to die before you rest and eat to recharge yourself.
3. Charging Your Phone With Just Any Charger That Fits.
This especially applies to smartphones. Most smartphone use a micro USB for its chargers and for this reasons most people tend to switch and swap chargers since it fits into and works on their phones.
However, this is not appropriate and in the long run it can negatively affect your phone battery. The fact that most smartphones have the same micro USB doesn’t mean all chargers and phones are compatible. Chargers have different capacity and that difference can be detrdetrimental to your phone.
4. Charging Your Phone in the Wrong Places
You should mind where you charge your phone, because not doing so can negatively affect your battery capacity. Phones have a temperature range they can function normally and charging your phone in a hot area can raise the temperature and stress the battery out.
Also, charging your phone in especially low temperature areas, like in front of an air conditioner, can also cause problems for your battery that will eventually affect its optimum performance.
5. Charging When Your Phone Battery is still High.
When you just charge your phone to 100% full and you've used it to 60% and you are going back to charge it again because you may not get the chance to charge it afterwards. I'll advice you to wait till your phone reach like 20%, before you charge it. This is to save your battery life.
6. Charging Your Phone Overnight
The least you’ll sleep throughout the night is most likely going to be between 5 to 8 hours, your smartphone battery typically only needs 2 to 3 hours to fully charge. Charging your phone overnight, constantly stresses your phone battery each night.
Sooner than later, your phone is likely to have battery problems. In addition, the temperature rises when the battery is overcharged, so apart from shortening battery life, it can also threaten user’s safety in the event it quickly heats up and explodes. It’s better to charge your phone before you sleep and switch it off while sleeping to preserve the battery till the next day.
7. Using Your Phone When Charging It.
Doing this use to kill battery a lot. It's like eating at the same time still working, the energy you supposed to store will be divided into two. This won't stop your phone from charging but it will surely affect your battery life. If you have this habit, it'll be better to stop it. Don't use you phone when you are charging it.
All this are found based on research. You can add yours in the comment box bellow
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