Help in understanding - Battery Life

[csmager]

1. once you get you phone make sure that you give it a good charge before using , now this is hard i know as you want to have a play with it in all its new shinyness , but the manufacture's do state this helps , so there has to be some truth in it .

Isn't necessary at all - a hangover from the NiCd days.

2. For the first couple of time you use the handset make ure that you drain the life out of it everytime , as batteries do carry a memorey and if you charge several times with out draining that battey thinks that 1/4 of the way its at its lowest.

3. once a month from then onwards do a load of mutitasks on it to soak any memorey out of it .

This is also rubbish. Lithium Ion/Lithium Polymer batteries don't have memory. They also can be damaged beyond recovery by completely running them dead - which is why they actually never get there - the battery's circuitry will shut off the output before this happens.

4. dont leave it on charge overnight , this a lot of people think is fine . it aint essentially your overcharging with has the same effect as underchraging which again does not help memorey.

As before there is no memory effect. The circuitry prevents any overcharge - as Li-Ion/Li-Polymer batteries are unstable if this occurs. You're perfectly ok leaving your phone on charge. 99%+ isn't ideal for battery longevity, but you'll've got a new phone long before it causes a problem.

Ideal conditions are 40% and cool temperatures. 100% and high temperatures aren't good - hence laptops that are constantly plugged in heating up to 50-60 degrees usually have awful battery life after a few years. But, as I said, the cooler temperatures and use during the day mean you'll've binned the phone long before the battery starts giving out.

It is adviseable to occasionally run the battery down - only to re-calibrate the phone's battery level meter.

Most of what you've said was correct about 10 years ago - and still is for Nickel based batteries (like your remote controlled cars). But nearly none of it applies to modern Lithium based cells.

 

[LeperousDust]

a lot of people comment on how poor there handsets are for battery life , and yes lets be fair battery technology aint moved any faster commpaired to the technology to handsets ,
But what i will say is that i aint had much of a problem with this sort of thing , i kinda picked up so way of thinking as with radio controlled car racing that i do and have done for sometime .
I think the key to this in most cases is
1. once you get you phone make sure that you give it a good charge before using , now this is hard i know as you want to have a play with it in all its new shinyness , but the manufacture's do state this helps , so there has to be some truth in it .

2. For the first couple of time you use the handset make sure that you drain the life out of it everytime , as batteries do carry a memorey and if you charge several times with out draining that battey thinks that 1/4 of the way its at its lowest.

3. once a month from then onwards do a load of mutitasks on it to soak any memorey out of it .

4. dont leave it on charge overnight , this a lot of people think is fine . it aint essentially your overcharging with has the same effect as underchraging which again does not help memorey.

5. if you can buy a desk charger for batteries , batteries respond better once there out of equipment and you zapping it with full charge , instead of the rest of the phone and then the battery.

6. if your going to buy a spare , dont be fooled to buy cheap winning bids on flea bay or other sort of bidding websites or dodgey market dealers, most of the time these are fake made copies mass produced in some under paid factory , if you want a nokia battery seek a nokia specailist or a nokia sevice centre , same applyies for and brand , if they sell the products with the branding advetised they got to follow rules set down buy the manufactures.

7. Once using ya phone try not to leave apps open or leave Wifi or Bluetooth on , these decease battery time buy a lot , eg like on Nokia N Series , press and hold the menu key , this will tell you whats running in the background and use the "C" button to close anything you aint using .

Hope this May Help some
Alex Slane

So much of this is old wives tale stuff. Although i agree to some extent with the last statement, but what if i want to leave bluetooth on? Whats the point in having it if i can't leave it on all the time? Silly really... Anyways Li-ions don't need to be discharged and recharged and all this bull. You may have been into RC but you obviously used NiCad and/or NiMh which totally different beasts.

Read this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li-Ion

 

[alexslane]

I thought the point to forums like this might be to share some info that you might have to help in the possible need of others , and not to be ripped apart at the seams , and dont get me wrong i was not proclaiming that i knew everything to do with batteries .

Ya nice to bloody meet you 2 aswell lol

Well some of the info that i put in that post was just things that i might have picked up over years of use , and lets be fair it aint bad practice , but thanks for the info on the batteries and putting me on the right path ! .

Anyways i will leave you to discuss the vital points of the battery and not what might help the fella who posted this thread in the first place

All the best

Alex Slane

 

[digisatman]

but what if i want to leave bluetooth on? Whats the point in having it if i can't leave it on all the time? Silly really...

well smarty pants, how about when u want to use it, you can take the 2 secs to switch it on?

 

[LeperousDust]

well smarty pants, how about when u want to use it, you can take the 2 secs to switch it on?

What if you have bluetooth equipment that responds to you being there? For instance my computer can lock/unlock itself whilst i'm not around (if my phone has bluetooth turned on). My computer/sound system mutes radio or pauses music whenever i recieve calls (as long as bluetooth is on). There are many other features too. Then there are bluetooth headsets for when i'm driving, or bluetooth GPS devices. Bluetooth isn't just for file transfers where i agree in this case only i may turn it on and off. But that is NOT how i use it. So tell me again, how do i switch it off ?