Myth Buster!

Samsung’s Galaxy Note 7 came to the market with a BIG BANG. Samsung rolled back the smartphone from market just two weeks after its launch. It was an explosive entry into the smartphone by Samsung. This incident has raised the eyes of all those techno general around the world who were believed that making smartphone battery big and compact is the only option to make a long lasting smartphone.

While there are many things that you must know if you use the smartphone, which I presume you do, if you are reading this. We’ll be busting some smartphone myths that were lying around us from a long time and need to be considered.

Is it safe to charge your smartphone overnight?

Oh god! Stop asking such silly question in the 21st century. It is totally safe. Yes there were times when we had to follow some precautions to increase our battery life. Earlier, the charger kept on transferring the current to your mobile even though if it was fully charged, but nowadays the ‘Smart’-Phone knows when to stop charging itself and how to control the overcharging. So once the charging is complete, even though if the charger is connected to the phone, it stops the flow of current.

Here’s how Apple explains it, and while they only refer to their batteries, the rules apply to any lithium-ion battery:

Charge your Apple lithium-ion battery whenever you want. There’s no need to let it discharge 100% before recharging. Apple lithium-ion batteries work in charge cycles. You complete one charge cycle when you’ve used (discharged) an amount that equals 100% of your battery’s capacity — but not necessarily all from one charge. For instance, you might use 75% of your battery’s capacity one day, then recharge it fully overnight. If you use 25% the next day, you will have discharged a total of 100%, and the two days will add up to one charge cycle. It could take several days to complete a cycle. The capacity of any type of battery will diminish after a certain amount of recharging. With lithium-ion batteries, the capacity diminishes slightly with each complete charge cycle. Apple lithium-ion batteries are designed to hold at least 80% of their original capacity for a high number of charge cycles, which varies depending on the product.

Lithium ion batteries are capable of holding more battery power than the older nickel cadmium and nickel-metal hydroxide batteries. So if you are planning to buy a smartphone every two year it is totally cool to charge it overnight or test it in extreme condition; because eventually with the wear and tear your smartphone battery is going to be degraded over a period of time.

So how one can improve the battery performance?

Like we require some power ups(coffee, Red bull) during the day to keep up ourselves up and running. Smartphones battery also requires small amounts of charges in between the day. It is never advisable to juice up your battery from 0% to 100% because that degrades the life of battery. Always try to keep the meter between the 20% -80% and you are good to go.

Never use the smartphone while doing massive tasks like gaming, because it puts more pressure on the smartphone battery and eventually make your smartphone heat up a little bit.

While many of you might fancy a task killer or app killer. But to be honest,  they actually have nothing to do with battery, in simple terms when you open an app it is loaded on the memory and the moment you stop using it freezes. So your smartphone actually isn’t spending any battery over it. But when you close that app and again open it, that process gets repeated again. So it is advisable to not to close those apps. It’s totally cool.

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