8 Essential Tips To Keep Your Phone's Battery Healthy

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8 Essential Tips To Keep Your Phone's Battery Healthy






By Eric Limer
MAY 26, 2015 @ 3:05 PM



That phone in your pocket is a modern miracle. Ditto the laptop on your desk, the tablet in your backpack, maybe even
the watch on your wrist. And regardless of what each is capable of, they all have one cornerstone component to thank,
one that you probably ought to know how to take care of: A battery.

The first step to knowing your device's battery is to narrow down the kind. The first kind you might think of (and the kind
you probably grew up with) are nickel-metal hydride, or NiMH batteries. These, generally, are the ones that look like a normal
disposable batteries, except you can plug them into a wall charger for some extra juice whenever your TV remote dies.


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The 10 Biggest Ways You're Killing Your Phone Battery






What not to do if you want to get through the day without running out of juice.

JUL 16, 2015 @ 11:32 AM




1. Having your screen brightness up high

The more light your phone is emitting, the more battery life it's zapping. Either turn the brightness down in your settings, or switch
on 'Auto-Brightness' if your phone has it, it'll naturally adjust your screen brightness depending on your surrounding.


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How to make lithium-ion batteries last for years






By Fred Langa
August 12, 2015



The lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries used in most of today’s tablets,
smartphones, and portable PCs require very different care and feeding
than with the nickel-cadmium (Ni-Cd) and nickel-metal-hydride (Ni-MH)
batteries used in earlier devices.

In fact, proper care of a Li-ion battery can result in as much as 15 times
longer service life than with an improperly cared-for battery. Here’s how
to make sure that your expensive Li-ion batteries last as long as possible
in all your portable devices.

I recently had to replace a damaged smartphone — and it was all my fault.

The symptom was ominous: my phone’s case became distorted — the body
of the phone actually started to bend.

On inspection, it turned out, the phone’s Li-ion battery had actually swollen.


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