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How To Improve The Battery Life Of Your Phone

May 3rd, 2007 • Related • Filed Under

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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#1

Comment by Techie Buzz on 4 May 2007:

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

Comment by Raj on 5 May 2007:

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

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#4

Comment by Tim on 10 May 2007:

This piece of information is outdated.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.
#5

Comment by Tony Williams on 10 May 2007:

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