Hello,
So I just got a new phone, the Nextbit Robbin. I'm really liking it so far, but since it's a new phone I was worrying about everything including the battery life. So with my old smart phone, which was a cheap-o phone (but I think it had a Li-Ion battery) I used to do the old method of charging (because I didn't know any better), wait until it gets close to 0, then charge until it goes to 100. I recently heard this is a bad thing to do with Lithium batteries since they don't have a memory anymore, and since doing that takes up a full "charge cycle", so instead I have been waiting until the battery gets to 40 and I charge it for about 15 minutes until it hits 80 and I unplug it. Thing I don't understand with this method is that I have to do it every single day where as I was charging my old smart phone once a week, sometimes twice a week. So if charging the phone from 0-100 takes up one charge cycle, and 40-80 takes up close to half a charge cycle, and I would only charge the phone once maybe twice a week wouldn't it prolong the battery longer doing that? My thinking is that there is 52 weeks in a year, if I charge my phone once a week that's 52 charge cycles a year. On the other side if I charge my phone from 40-80 everyday that would take up to 150 charge cycles a year.
So am I missing something here? Or is this something I just shouldn't worry about?
So I just got a new phone, the Nextbit Robbin. I'm really liking it so far, but since it's a new phone I was worrying about everything including the battery life. So with my old smart phone, which was a cheap-o phone (but I think it had a Li-Ion battery) I used to do the old method of charging (because I didn't know any better), wait until it gets close to 0, then charge until it goes to 100. I recently heard this is a bad thing to do with Lithium batteries since they don't have a memory anymore, and since doing that takes up a full "charge cycle", so instead I have been waiting until the battery gets to 40 and I charge it for about 15 minutes until it hits 80 and I unplug it. Thing I don't understand with this method is that I have to do it every single day where as I was charging my old smart phone once a week, sometimes twice a week. So if charging the phone from 0-100 takes up one charge cycle, and 40-80 takes up close to half a charge cycle, and I would only charge the phone once maybe twice a week wouldn't it prolong the battery longer doing that? My thinking is that there is 52 weeks in a year, if I charge my phone once a week that's 52 charge cycles a year. On the other side if I charge my phone from 40-80 everyday that would take up to 150 charge cycles a year.
So am I missing something here? Or is this something I just shouldn't worry about?
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