Boost Your SmartPhone's Battery Life for Maximum

Do your mobile phone often run out of battery and maybe it is the problem due to the wrong handling of your battery. Need tips and tricks for increasing the life of your smart phone's battery? In this post, learn about how to increase the battery standby time of your mobile phone for the maximum and enjoy with your smart phone for maximum hours and also learn about the different types of battery. We can also learn about how long to charge the battery, difference between Lithium-ion and Nickel-Metal Hydride Battery, difference between talk-time and stand-by time.

Smart phones are one of the greatest discoveries and many of the people are suffering from Nomophobia. Confused what is Nomophobia? The expansion of the Nomophobia is "No Mobile Phone Phobia". Many of us can't even imagine a life without a mobile phone.

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Longer battery life enables excellent talk time and standby time, making it easier for you to stay connected throughout your busy schedule.
We are going to see about how to handle a mobile phone's battery for the better performence.
Even though the smartphone has numerous apps and games but one of the biggest drawback is the capacity of the battery life. Infact, everyone we look on the streets, bus are always texting or doing something with their mobile phone but how many of them are returning home with some juice in their battery? Many mobile phones just dried out within afternoon which has been carried from home on early morning.

Some smartphones live a little longer life than the other smart phones but usually all smart phones suffers by the disease. Battery sucks up so quickly while we browsing internet, playing games, hearing music, using apps or doing other things. (ofcourse making calls too)

The normal way to increase the battery life and consuming the energy is by using the mobile phone less. The best alternative way is turning off the unwanted apps & features and adjusting the features via settings.

Boost Your Gadget's Battery Life for Maximum

Dim the Display

You may had been fallen in love with your large colourful HD screen of your smart phone but its the greatest enemy for the battery's life. Many smart phones have a facility to auto adjust the screen brightness which extents the battery life but you can get the better results by turning the brightness to the lowest level.

Configure the Screen Timeout to the Shortest Time

Making the screen to sleep faster is one of the other way to keep your mobile alive for long time. In most of the Android devices, the minimum time to turn off lights after a given input is 15 and if in your mobile it had been set to 2 or 3 minutes then try to reduce it to the minimum level.

Switch Off Bluetooth

People often use bluetooth for connecting with other mobiles and bluetooth devices such as hands free headset but after that they just forget about it and it works continuely without any rest. Bluetooth is a charge killer which kills the mobile phone slowly and just try to switch off the bluetooth after its work is done.

Turn Off Wi-Fi After Its Use

The WLAN makes the internet connectivity as easy to access by the people. Just turn it off before leaving from your home and while not in use. Turn it on in a network availability area and after that don't forget to turn off.

Shutdown the GPS too

The Global Positioning System unit sends and receives the signals to the various satellites revolving around the earth. It helps you to find out the nearest restaurant, police stations and while you installing the application it will ask you the permission for auto access to the GPS and set as no for such similar settings.

Close Multitask Apps

One of the powerful feature of the smart phone is that it can run many apps on the background but it will decrease your battery bar too. Just keep in mind about what all are the apps running on the background and close the unwanted apps after using it.

Don't use Vibration

Many people prefers the vibration instead of the ring tone but the fact is vibration use more battery than the normal ring tone. Turn off all your unwanted notifications and other alerts for long lasting battery life.

Work in Power Saver Mode

Latest smart phones seems to have power saver mode and check in your smart phone. If there is a power saves mode then turn it on and manage the multitasks and monitor your battery level.

Carry a Precharged Charger

Always carry a solar charger or a charger works on a battery or just an another battery and so that even if your mobile is switched off by running out of the charge then you can easily use your mobile in the case of emergency.

There are three main types of batteries used for powering mobile phones.

Nickel-cadmium(Ni-cad)

It is low priced with heat protection ability. But it is the heaviest, adding to the weight of a mobile phone. It offers the lowest talk and standby times compared to other battery and large size.

Nickel-Metal Hydride(Ni-Mh)

It is the most widely used mobile phone battery, capable of holding charge for 30 percent longer time than Ni-Cad batteries. It lighter, weighing under 1240gms in some cases.

Lithium-ion(Li-Ion)

With many advantages and fewer disadvantages, weigh only 56gms. These batteries offer long lasting talk and standby time, (free from environment effect).

Method of charging the battery for the first time

A new battery should be fully charged for the first 3 charge cycles before being used and then allowed to fully discharge before charging. This will condition the battery for optimal performance. This conditioning is a must for nickel metal hydride(NiMH)and lithium iron batteries(Li-ion). Some times a battery can show full charge after only a short charging period. In such case the battery should be charged over night. This is well ensure a true full charge. It is important that the battery should be charged with a compactible charger according to the charging instructions.

Timing of battery charging

As a thumb-rule it typically takes 2 hours to charge using a rapid charger where as is takes about 4 hours to charge using a show charger.

Maximum performance

Properly condition your battery when it is new.

Use only original/branded charger as unbranded/spurious chargers can damage your battery.

Keep the contact points clean.

Do not expose the battery to extreme heat or cold

Keep the battery in constant use.

If the battery is left ideal for a long period, it should be stored in a cool, clean and dry area. For reuse, please recharge and recondition. 

The difference between Lithium-ion and Nickel-Metal Hydride Battery

A Lithium-ion battery is lighter in weight from a Nickel-metal Hydride battery and provides higher performance. Li-on batteries do not develop. Memory-effect whereas the NiMH batteries can develop memory effect if proper care and conditioning is not taken care-off.

Talk-time and stand-by time

Talk time indicates the battery charge would last if the user were continuously speaking. The term stand by time indicates the duration the battery charge would last assuming that the phone is on but the user does not make a call.

Nickel cadmium & NIMH

This batteries have a particular disadvantages, that is metal(memory)effect, we can avoid this problem with proper charging & discharging that is allow to recharge only after full discharge, then apply boosting. Boosting is the process that, apply more voltage and current from a external supply to battery with continuous ON/OFF position. NI-cad & Mh can be boosted on 0.16 to 0.8A.

Li-ion & Polymer

These batteries include an extra protection CKT. So, we cannot discharge fully. If any damage occurs to battery we can remove the extra supply & apply directly to the board these batteries have long life compared to Ni-cad & Mh.

Conclusion

The battery gives the life to a smart phone. It is always recommended to use the default battery type and battery brand on your mobile phone. You must also needs to use the quality mobile charge since it may also affect your battery performence.