It’s more difficult to replace the lithium-ion battery in your phone than it is to treat it properly in the first place. Many cell phones don’t allow users to easily access their batteries. This covers all iPhones as well as several high-end Android phones from companies like Samsung. Official battery replacements may be costly and time-consuming (try getting an official battery replacement at an Apple Store this year). There are also environmental issues to consider. Smartphones are, quite bluntly, a disaster for the environment, and prolonging the life of your phone battery helps to minimize this.
Here are some suggestions for preserving and extending the life of your phone’s battery. When I say battery lifespan, I’m referring to how long your battery will survive before it has to be changed. In contrast, battery life refers to how many hours or days your phone will last on a single charge.
Your phone’s battery declines significantly with each charging cycle. A charge cycle is the complete drain and charge of a battery from 0% to 100%. Partially charged cycles are counted as a fraction of the whole cycle. Half a charge cycle is equivalent to charging your phone from 50 per cent to 100 per cent. Once you’ve done it twice, you’ve completed a full charging cycle. Some people charge their phones more than once a day, while others charge them less frequently. It depends on how much you use your phone and what you do with it.
According to battery makers, a phone battery’s capacity degrades by 20% every 400 cycles. It will only be able to hold 80% of the energy it had before and will continue to deteriorate as more charge cycles are completed. However, the fact is that phone batteries deteriorate far faster than that. According to one internet source, some phones degrade by 20% after only 100 charge cycles. To be clear, after 400 cycles, the phone battery continues to degrade. The 400 cycles / 20% number is intended to give you a sense of the degradation rate.
You can increase the battery longevity of your phone if you can slow down those charge cycles – if you can extend the everyday battery life of your phone. In general, the less you charge and discharge the battery, the longer it will last. The issue is that you bought your phone with the intention of using it. You must strike a balance between battery life and usability, using your phone when and how you want it. Some of the ideas I’ve made below might not be suitable for you. On the other hand, there may be some simple things you may perform that don’t interfere with your personal style.
There are two sorts of ideas in this section. There are some ideas for reducing battery stress and strain, which has a direct impact on battery longevity. This first category would include staying away from extremes of heat and cold. There are other recommendations for making your phone more energy efficient, such as delaying charge cycles to reduce battery deterioration. This second sort of recommendation may include lowering the screen brightness.
If your phone becomes too hot or too cold, the battery will be strained, and its life will be cut short. If it’s bright and sunny outdoors, or below freezing in the winter, leaving it in your car is usually the worst offender.
Quickly charging your phone puts a strain on the battery. Avoid utilizing rapid charging unless absolutely necessary.
In fact, the slower you charge your battery, the better, so if you don’t mind overnight charging, go for it. Charging your phone using a computer or some smart plugs might limit the amount of electricity that goes into your phone, reducing its charge pace. Some external battery packs might slow the speed of charging, but I’m not sure about that.
Older rechargeable batteries included a feature known as “battery memory.” They ‘remembered’ and decreased their usable range if you didn’t charge them to full and drain them to zero battery. It was better for their longevity if you totally discharged and recharged the battery.
Batteries in newer phones function in a different way. It puts a strain on the battery whether it is entirely discharged or fully charged. If you maintain your phone battery above 20% capacity and below 90% capacity, it will last the longest. To be more specific, they’re happiest when they’re at approximately 50% capacity.
By the way, short charges are usually good, so if you find yourself regularly topping up your phone for brief charges, that’s probably OK for your battery.
It’s possible that paying too much attention to this one is too much micromanagement. Now that you understand how the battery works, you should always plug it in before it drops below 20% and disconnects it before it is fully charged.
The best charge for a lithium-ion battery appears to be around 50%. If you’re planning to keep your phone for a long time, charge it to 50% before shutting it off and putting it away. This is less taxing on the battery than charging it to 100% or letting it discharge to 0% before storing it.
By the way, even if the phone is turned off and not in use, the battery continues to deteriorate and drain. This battery generation was created to be used. If you think about it, switch on the phone every few months and charge the battery to 50%.
The suggestions above are all about extending the life of your battery. Battery life, or how long your phone lasts on a single charge, has an impact on battery longevity. Improving battery life improves the battery’s life by slowing down the charging cycle.
The screen of a smartphone is usually the component that consumes the most battery. It is possible to save electricity by lowering the screen brightness. Most people will save battery life by using Auto-Brightness, which automatically reduces screen brightness when there is less light, albeit it does require more effort from the light sensor.
Managing it manually and somewhat compulsively would be the best way to conserve the most battery in this area. That is, whenever the ambient illumination levels change, manually adjust it to the lowest apparent level.
Both Android and iOS give you options to turn down overall screen brightness even if you’re also using auto-brightness.
If you keep your screen on for an extended period of time without using it, it will switch off automatically after a certain amount of time, generally one or two minutes. Reducing the Screen Timeout duration might help you conserve electricity (called Auto-Lock on iPhones). I think iPhones’ Auto-Lock is set to 2 minutes by default, which may be more than you require. You might be able to get away with 1 minute or even 30 seconds. Reduce auto-lock or screen timeout, on the other side, and you could find your screen dimming too quickly while you’re reading a news item or a recipe, so that’s a decision you’ll have to make.
The pixels that display black simply do not turn on. The contrast between black and colour is strong and attractive as a result. It also means that showing darkness on a screen consumes no energy, and that deeper colours consume less energy than bright colours like white. If your phone has an OLED or AMOLED screen, choosing a dark theme might help you save energy. If your screen does not have an OLED screen — and this includes all iPhones before the iPhone X — a dark theme won’t make a difference.
Some individuals believe that a darker theme is easier on the eyes in terms of reducing eye strain and that less light means less blue light, which can disrupt sleep patterns. A dark theme is available in many apps’ settings. However, only the iPhone X series has OLED panels, thus these are the only iPhones that would benefit from a dark theme in terms of energy efficiency.
…or minimize its use by limiting its rights. On both Android and iPhone, Facebook is a renowned resource eater. If you truly want to utilize Facebook, go into the settings, and disable features like video autoplay, location access, and alerts. Do you really want Facebook to know where you are? Facebook’s auto-play videos (which play whether you pick them or not) use energy and data and may be unpleasant and obtrusive in some circumstances. There might be relevant options in both the app and your phone’s settings.
If your phone came pre-installed with Facebook, you may not be able to entirely remove it because it is considered a system app. If that’s the case, you may turn it off under Settings.
Look through your battery settings for additional programs that use a lot of power and remove, deactivate, or restrict rights where you can. You can disable permissions you don’t require for apps you wish to keep using. Some popular applications also have ‘light’ versions that take up less space, consume less data, and may require less power. One example is Facebook Messenger Light.
However, the applications that consume the most battery are likely to be the ones you use the most, so removing or decreasing use may not be feasible for you.
One or more energy-saving modes are available on your phone. The CPU’s performance is hampered as a result of this (and other features). Consider putting them to use. The performance will be lesser, but the battery life will be longer. The trade-off might not bother you.
Many applications are available in both free and paid editions, with the free version frequently containing advertisements. Ads take a little more data and a little more energy to display. Buying an app you use regularly instead of utilizing the free ad-supported version might save you money in the long term by lowering data and battery use. You also acquire new features and assist app developers while freeing up screen space by removing annoying advertising. You also save time that would have been spent viewing ads or dealing with unintentionally visiting the ad link.
You can switch off radios that you don’t listen to very often unless you need them. There’s no point to have NFC enabled if you never use it. Radios like GPS, Bluetooth, and NFC, on the other hand, don’t require much energy in standby mode, but they do while they’re in use. Micromanaging radios are likely to save just a little amount of energy.
When it comes to radios, keep in mind that the weaker your cell or Wi-Fi signal is, the more power your phone needs to access it. To use cellular data or Wi-Fi, your phone must be able to receive and deliver data. If you don’t get a strong signal, your phone will have to enhance its own signal to reach that faraway cell tower or Wi-Fi router, which will consume more battery.
If your bedroom has a good mobile signal but a weak Wi-Fi signal, using cellular data instead of Wi-Fi may save you energy. Similarly, if your Wi-Fi connection is strong but your mobile service is weak, you should stick to Wi-Fi.
Turn on aeroplane mode if you’re out of cell service or Wi-Fi range. If they don’t have them, smartphones are continually on the hunt for cell and Wi-Fi signals. If no signal is available, your phone will constantly be looking for one.
Changing your email from push to fetch, according to several internet sites, will conserve battery life. Your smartphone is always listening for fresh email, which is then pushed through quickly. Fetch indicates that your device checks for new messages at a predetermined frequency, such as every 15 minutes. The most energy-efficient option is to fetch manually, which means that your smartphone only checks for mail when you open your email app manually.
There is some dispute as to whether fetch actually saves energy. It is most likely dependent on the volume of email sent and the patterns of email usage. I’m a pushover. It works well enough for me.
Your battery health is displayed in current iOS versions. There isn’t a feature like this in Android, although there are third-party apps that can do it. According to some sources, a healthy range extends up to 90%, which is typically a number I strive for as a reasonable balance between long-term battery preservation and not running out of energy in the near term.
At the end of the day, the key issue is whether all of this battery efficiency discussion is worth it. Are the battery savings worth the effort?
If your phone’s battery life is making your life harder, you can always stop-by at EK Wireless to get it replaced. Give us a call for quote today!
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