How to stop worrying about the battery of your smartphone and start living

Battery smartphones, tablets and laptops - a thing, wrapped in many myths. What tricks do not go to the owners of devices to extend battery life. Here and in a variety of applications for Android, designed to kill background processes to save energy, and cunning charging circuit when the battery is discharged to a certain percentage before the device is connected again to nutrition.

It comes to the ridiculous. The author personally knew one girl who thrust her battery of your smartphone in the freezer, arguing that since it prolongs his life.

Please, do not do so. A variety of "keepers of the battery" and other "life hacking" absolutely useless. Better to just stop worrying about your battery. And here's how to do it.

The easiest way to solve the battery problem

Justin Pot, author of the popular portal HowToGeek, recommends simply connect their device to the mains whenever possible, without waiting for the battery discharge. Elementary, right?

Simply use your smartphone in the usual way and put it on charging whenever you can. This will facilitate the life of themselves and their devices.

Why it works

discharge cycle is not limited to one network connection

Almost certainly you will say that to keep the battery charged during the day - bad idea. All users of smartphones at least once, but have heard something about the cycle of charge and discharge of the battery. Any battery can only sustain a limited number of cycles, gradually wearing.

Mistakenly believed that the discharge cycle is limited to one connection and disconnection from the mains. That is, you connect the smartphone to the charger, waiting until the mark reaches 100%, unplug the charger - and here it is, one charge cycle.

This is not true. A full charge cycle is not limited to a single connection and disconnection from the mains. It ends when all the battery power is exhausted.

That's what this is written in the documentationAdvantages of the lithium ion battery Apple: «Charge the Li-Ion battery Apple when it suits you. There is no need to completely discharge it before recharging. The fact is that the lithium-ion batteries Apple working cycles. One cycle is completed when you use up a charge, similar to 100% battery capacity - and this does not necessarily amount of energy obtained per charge. For example, you can use 75% of the battery capacity during the day and night then charged it fully. If the next day you are using 25% of its capacity, the amount of the previous flow rate to get 100%. Thus, one cycle will be passed in two days. The cycle can be completed and for more days. "

It makes no sense to wait until the battery is empty before you charge the device again. This applies to all modern gadgets and iOS, and Android.

Modern batteries are not rechargeable memory

Battery Memory - this is the effect, in which the battery capacity is gradually reduced, if it is regularly recharged after partial loss of energy. For example, your device is discharged to 50%, you have to recharge it. And if from time to time to do the same, with time, your battery can "remember" the mark of 50% of the maximum charge level.

But there is one thing. Battery NiMH and NiCd memory effect is no longer produced or used. Modern lithium-ion batteries can be recharged at any time, regardless of their current charge. If the device detects that battery filled to capacity, it simply begins to run from the network, and all.

Much more harmful it is completely discharged for a lithium-ion battery. So it is better once again to connect the device to the network, rather than leave the battery fully discharged.

What exactly is not working

Among the users of Android (and iOS lesser degree) are very popular applications, which are designed to increase the period of operation of the device on a single charge disabling unused processes.

Is there any sense in them? Not. These gizmos, as well as other OS applications hang in memory, consuming system resources and charge your device's battery, that is, create the effect of, directly opposite statement. Do not expect a miracle. In the best case, another "battery keeper" unload any smartphone messenger or social networking application. It is perfectly possible to do it yourself.

Do you seriously believe that hundreds of Apple and Google developers can not optimize the power consumption of its operating systems and developer of a single obscure with the application alive to get by?

The best way to save battery power - to refuse every optimizers. Charge is low? Turn on flight mode. And still determine whether or not you need to constantly hanging in the memory of clients of all social networks and instant messengers that you use.

Total

For many smartphone or charging tablet It becomes a kind of ritual. Power portable devices all rise, and the battery volumes for them have not kept pace. It is sad to see how the once powerful battery of your device will eventually wear out. Especially given the tendency of some manufacturers to create gadgets with non-removable battery.

But in all these rituals makes no sense. Note that the battery is designed to use it. No need to wait until the battery level reaches a certain percent or encumber the special smartphone applications. Just use your gadgets in a familiar rhythm and make sure that they have always been charged.

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