How to Slow down the ageing of your Smartphone battery

With the increase in the smartphone market, smartphones are a part of everyone's day to day  life. It is one of most powerful gadgets we have in our hands. From voice calls to video calls, chatting to news reading, our day to day life is connected to these phones in one way or the other. But what happens when they run out of life. Of course by saying life I mean when the battery drains out. I personally feel like as if I have lost an important part of my body. So as we take of our body parts we need to take care of these gadgets and their batteries also.


Most Common Myth:

         Well I will not blame you if you say that we can increase battery life by giving a full charge cycle i.e. from 0-5% to 100%. I believed the same few years ago. But the time has changed and with it our new smartphone batteries also.

        Earlier our phones came with  nickel-cadmium batteries. With these type of batteries, it was better if we gave them a complete charging cycle. But with the new lithium-ion batteries complete charging cycle is not required.

How to increase Battery life

     1. Avoid Low battery levels:
               The most important step towards increasing battery life is to prevent it from getting below 35-40%
               battery level. Charge you phone before it goes below 35%. Running the battery below this level
               may shorten the battery life.


     2. Avoid overcharging your phones.
               Most of us have the habit of putting the phone on charging continuously. Friends our lithium-ion
               batteries are not designed for overcharging. Ofcourse the chargers come with a protective measure
               to switch of the charging after 100% level but still why to take risk. Remove the phones from
               charging as soon as it reaches the full battery level.

     3. Avoid extreme heat and cold.
              Try to avoid high and low temperature levels. If you are playing high quality games or doing video
               calls for long hours remove the phone covers so that the battery does not gets heated
               up. Operating temperature should be between 30 to 90 Degree F. Your smartphone battery will
               Degrade much faster if subjected to higher temperature levels.

    4. Calibrate the charging levels once in two to three months.
              It is like these batteries have a memory and they forget the upper and lower battery limit after a
              while. So just by letting the phone discharge completely and charge it to 100% may result in the
              calibration of the battery level. Do this once or twice in two three months and that would be
              sufficient enough.




Lithium-Ion batteries have a life span of 3-5 years. It gets degraded every year by 10-15%. Anyway in the current scenario where new phones hit the market every week we cannot resist ourselves from buying a new phone after 2-3 years only. Still following these steps would not do any harm. I know eventually you need to change the battery or by a new phone but at least we can try and avoid it as long as possible.