Eight Tips for Saving your Cell Phone Battery

Eight Tips for Saving your Cell Phone Battery:

On the surface, cell phone battery technology doesn’t seem to have progressed
too far in the past few years. A battery still seems to last about two or three days
between charges and overall it lasts around two years before needing to be
replaced. Now to be fair, battery technology has progressed a long way in recent
years, but since our cell phones now do so much more than they used to (with
new feature requiring battery power,) a battery’s life cycle still ends up about the
same. Here are some dos and don’ts for maximizing your cell’s battery:

Things not to do:

● Don’t charge your battery every day. Constantly charging the battery when
it still has half a charge will actually lower the battery’s capability of holding a
charge.
● Don’t subject your phone to extreme temperatures. Heat and cold are a
battery’s enemies and will drastically shorten how long it can hold a charge
(or if it can hold a charge at all.) So, leaving your phone in the car on a hot
summer day will definitely weaken a battery. And if you live in a cold climate,
don’t expose it to the cold for prolonged periods. Try to keep it covered or
close to your body to minimize the total effect of the cold.
● Don’t leave your phone on 7/24. Turning your phone off at night will allow
the electronics to cool and, in effect, ‘get some rest’. As an added bonus,
when you turn your phone back on, it should refocus its coordinates, and this
may actually improve your reception.

Things you can do:

● Give your new battery a good start in life. New batteries need to be fully
charged before first use to ensure maximum battery capacity. Nickel-based
batteries should be charged for about sixteen hours while lithium batteries
only need about five to six hours before use.
● Limit your use of all those new cell phone features and turn them off when
you’re not using them. Things like GPRS, 3G, and Wi-Fi are all great features
and provide great functionality, but leaving them on when you aren’t using
them will just eat up battery capacity.
● Turn down the brightness of your screen and minimize the length of time
your back light stays on.
● Choose a short ring tone and only use vibrating mode when you don’t want
to annoy people around you. Long ring tones and the vibrating mode are a
couple of other ‘battery eaters.’
● Finally, there is some controversy as to whether actually turning your phone
off when you’re not using it will extend battery life; some folks claim it will
help lengthen battery life while others are equally adamant it won’t. However,
everyone agrees that you can extend a battery’s life by turning your phone
off when you are in an area with either no signal or a very weak one. Even
if there is no signal, your phone will be constantly seeking one and trying to
establish a connection—and using maximum battery power in those futile
attempts.

Cheers :-)