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Keep Your Phone Charged Longer
With One Simple Trick
Do you find your cellphone battery drains too quickly each day? I have a great trick for extending the life of your phone battery — really, it’s not a trick at all. It’s a simple lesson I learned from a very helpful phone salesperson long ago…way back before phones became so smart.
I had gone to my local phone store to purchase a new battery because mine would not hold a charge for an entire day. The salesman informed me that I was charging it too often. He proceeded to teach me that rechargeable batteries develop a memory. If you put your phone on the charger every day at 6pm, the battery remembers that and begins losing its juice very quickly close to that time. Or if you charge when it’s convenient, whether the battery needs it or not, you are ‘teaching’ the battery that it does not need to last very long.
The best practice is to push the battery to its limit. Wait until your phone has less than 20% battery life remaining before plugging it in to a charger. And then, once it’s plugged in, let it stay there until it’s fully charged — whether that is one hour or eight hours. Let it refill to 100%.
If you do this, requiring longer and longer life from the battery, you can force it to relearn its memory and stay charged longer. I have been following this advice with every device I…
