How To Improve The Battery Life Of Your Phone


Although modern phone batteries don’t benefit as much as old batteries from conditioning, there are still a lot of things you can do to make your phone battery last longer:

  • Always charge new phone batteries for at least 10 hours for the first charge
  • Don’t use the vibrate function on your phone as it’s a big drain on power
  • Try to only charge the battery when it is completely empty
  • Always give the battery a full charge. Avoid partial charges if you can
  • Don’t use the backlight and keypad tones if you don’t need them
  • Turn your phone off when you’re not using it e.g. sleeping
  • Turn off blutooth (and wi-fi) if you have it, when not in use

Also, if you are not charging your phone then please disconnect the charger – think of the environment!

Update 05/10/07:

Li-Ion batteries only last for two or three years, and there’s no way to condition them. Unlike Ni-Cd batteries,
they have no memory, and even prefer to be recharged frequently, rather than fully discharged.

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5 Responses to “How To Improve The Battery Life Of Your Phone”

  1. Techie Buzz says:

    Hey I agree with most of your thoughts on this.

    But the vibrate feature is very vital to me, traveling in a noisy city like New York does not make the phone sound too good, so the vibrate it one feature i would never turn off.

    Keith

  2. Raj says:

    Nice infor and very helpful too.

    And Would you consider making a mention about my blog, or maybe doing some linkage. My blog is http://www.technobuzz.net/

    Waiting for your reply

    Raj

  3. Tim says:

    This piece of information is outdated. All new mobile phones have batteries using li-ion materials. The lifetime of these batteries benefit from regular charging, that keeps them around 70% charged at all times. Completely draining them is damaging and definitely does not benefit their longevity.

  4. Thanks Tim. I’d read in places that li-ion batteries still benefit from conditioning, but I did a quick Google and found this:

    The bottom line appears to be that Li-Ion batteries only last for two or
    three years, and there’s no way to condition them. Unlike Ni-Cd batteries,
    they have no memory, and even prefer to be recharged frequently, rather than
    fully discharged!

    I will update the post

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