2023-07-21 19:33:00
These days, it’s almost impossible to imagine life without a cell phone. Whether it’s keeping in touch with friends and family, working, or even just having fun, our smartphones are an essential tool. However, with so many functions available, it is common for the cell phone battery to run out quickly. To avoid running out of charge when we need it most, it’s essential to know how to charge your cell phone correctly and efficiently. In this article, we’ll teach you how to charge your cell phone, the importance of charging it correctly and the care needed to ensure battery life.
How to charge your cell phone correctly?
We interviewed some of the main smartphone manufacturers in Brazil to indicate ways and habits to improve the life of your cell phone, so watch the video below and understand how your cell phone can extend its battery.
Let’s start by talking about cell phone charging, this is the main habit you need to focus on.
Can fast charging damage the battery?
The new smartphones with their batteries of 5000 mAh or more, have chargers that take up to 30 minutes to complete the charge, have you seen that? It’s very fast, 30 seconds pass and 1% more battery is charged. Does fast charging damage the battery? The answer is a NO.
We also talked with Gustavo Massete, who is product manager at Positivo, responsible for Anker in Brazil, a renowned brand in the charger market. According to him, the chargers have the capacity to communicate with cell phones, and will only send this maximum load capacity if the cell phone supports it. If the cell phone does not support fast charge, the charger will send default 5V or 2A or 1A.
Can charging with another charger also damage the battery? As?
Can I use another charger? You there at your house, you usually use your family’s charger, right? Use the first one in front, go there and that’s it, that’s it. I even made one exclusive article talking about charging cell phones using chargers from other brandsyou can check it out to increase your knowledge.
Manufacturers recommend using original chargers. However, for various reasons you can lose, damage or even be without the charger, will you stop charging your phone because you don’t have a charger on hand? Of course not? Understand that who controls the charge is the cell phone itself. Regardless of how powerful the charger is, the cell phone will control how much energy it can pull from the charger.
Using another cell phone charger So don’t worry, you can use other chargers on your cell phone, as long as they are cell phone chargers and, above all, cell phone manufacturers advise you to always use chargers certified by Anatel or some other certifier. That is, they are chargers that have undergone some inspection and testing.
Alert: be aware of the temperature of the charger, it cannot heat up to the point that you cannot put your hand on it.
Do I need to completely discharge the battery?
Discharging the battery completely was a habit, I remember when you bought a cell phone, the first thing you needed to do was get home and plug it into the charger until it was 100%, and do this three times. Thankfully that time has passed, today’s batteries no longer need calibration.
Even the manufacturers suggest that there is no longer this idea of having to keep it above X% to load, which ideal is not to let the battery run out completely.
Do you have the right time to load?
There is no right time to charge your cell phone battery. This is another myth that you only need to charge at night or not let it charge all night. The latest phones have an intelligence that understands their charging habits, we usually put the cell phone to charge at night while we sleep and what we expect is that cell phone to be fully charged in the morning. That’s exactly what happens. This artificial intelligence of theirs, when starting the charge, will inject energy into the battery up to a point, without completing the charge. When you get close to the time your alarm clock alerts, or close to the times you usually use your cell phone, then yes, it will complete 100%.
In this way, the cell phone avoids micro charges, which keep charging and discharging the phone. And if you charge it at another time, the smartphone understands that there is a non-standard need, so it will inject all the energy as quickly as possible.
Degradation
Now that you understand about charging and discharging phones, it’s time for us to talk a little about how batteries lose their useful life, what makes them deteriorate.
What is the worst use for batteries? What degrades the most?
It’s unanimous. If you ask anyone knowledgeable about batteries, or cellphone manufacturers themselves, what is most harmful to the batteries, the answer will certainly be TEMPERATURE.
The worst use for batteries is keeping them in high temperature conditions, which can cause significant capacity degradation and shorten their lifespan. Temperatures above 35°C can already start to affect battery performance. In addition, it is also harmful to keep batteries completely discharged for a long period of time, as this can lead to oxidation of the electrodes, which decreases the battery capacity.
Can I play and charge my phone at the same time?
Which is also directly connected to playing and charging the cell phone at the same time. The game requires a lot of smartphone resources, the processor draws the maximum energy it needs to perform graphics renderings. The discharge makes the reverse movement of the ions inside the battery, if the discharge is fast, the internal heat of the battery is also generated, now if you charge the cell phone at the same time, is there an internal struggle between, do I charge or discharge? Are the ions in this fight of going there, going here? The ideal is then you play without the charger.
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There are gamer smartphones that correct this problem, those with pass through technology, that is, they do not charge the phone and use the charger’s energy to power the processor while playing.
Why do batteries degrade and lose their useful life?
What is the average amount of charges in a battery, until it is considered degraded? On average it is possible to notice battery wear from the first year of use, of course this will depend exclusively on the intensity of use of your device. Realme says that from the third year this becomes more evident. Motorola claims that there is no specific period for this to occur. A Apple on their websitestates that the iPhone battery can degrade 20%, that is, dropping to 80% of Maximum Capacity when it reaches 500 charge cycles.
Smart loads also predict these micro cycles to happen, which is why the charge stays around 80% of capacity until it arrives in the morning and you have the cell phone fully charged.
I’m going to turn off the cell phone and keep it for a while, how much battery do I need to leave it? 100%, 0% or what?
Realme stated in our interview that the worst case scenario for storing the cell phone is to keep it with a zero battery.
Motorola said that the ideal is to leave it charged, also not reset, to the point of being able to pick up the cell phone from the box and already use it.
A Apple no site indicates storing iPhone with half charge when storing for a long period of time.
Summary: What to do?
In short, avoid leaving your cell phone hot for a long time. Preferably charge with the intelligence systems turned on and generally at the same times as you usually do. Use original chargers or those approved by a certifier such as Anatel.
For the rest my friends, be free to do whatever you want with your smartphone, since there is no way to avoid this loss of battery integrity, what we can do is by following these steps, delay the battery change or even change your cell phone.
I hope this content has helped you in some way, and if you liked it, help us by sending it to your friends, certainly we all have something to learn in relation to batteries.
Bonus Tips
My battery is already bad, what to do?
Could it be that you don’t have anything else to do and you’re fed up with charging even twice a day, isn’t it? Know that your battery no longer supports it and the ideal thing is to change it. Yes, all manufacturers have this battery replacement service. It is necessary to take it to an authorized technical assistance, they will budget the amount for this repair. Your smartphone will have the energy performance of when it was new.
How do I know a fair price for this repair?
Before changing the battery, check the price. You need to evaluate:
How much did you pay for the phone? How long does? What is the average price for the same model, new and used?
Remember the amount you paid when you were young? The repair amount needs to be a fraction of this amount. More expensive phones, with original values above 2000 reais, certainly if the phone has less than two years old, still worth repairing.
Check the current price, if the average value of the used device is less than twice the cost of the repair, that is, if twice the value of the repair is greater than the average price of the product, it might be better to reconsider this repair and go for a new product.
Thanks to Juliana Zoia from Motorola, Marcelo Sato from Realme and Gustavo Massete from Anker for participating.
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