How often do people scramble to find a charger when their cell phone battery starts to get low? How many people leave their phone plugged up until their battery reaches a full charge? Experts from the tech website, Gizmodo, are now claiming they are bad ideas and could really end up causing more harm to your smartphone battery.
You are certainly not alone if you are one of the many people who let their battery go from full to empty right back to full again, but Gizmodo writer Eric Limer is warning smartphone users against this. In an article on the website he said "letting the charge go to down to zero" is a bad idea if a person wants to sustain their battery.
"For the most part, going from all the way full to all the way empty won't help; in fact, it'll do a little damage if you do it too often," he said. "That said, it's smart to do one full discharge about once a month."
He said the only time a person's phone should reach zero and then bounce back up to 100 percent is only when performing their monthly "full discharge." This helps keeps your battery active, he explains. According to Gizmodo, a smartphone battery should never go below 40 percent and above 80 percent. He also said it should always be unplugged before it reaches 100 percent because a battery overcharge can wear your battery out.
"Running the whole gamut on a regular basis won't make your battery explode or anything, but it will shorten its lifespan," Limer said.
Other suggestions to help preserve a battery include keeping your phone cool and never use a wireless charge because it can "toast your battery." For those busy people who use their phones constantly throughout the day, Limer said turning down the screen's brightness setting, closing unused applications (especially one's that use GPS) and turning on the airplane mode when you can't find a signal will keep a person from having to charge their phone so much.
