Rezound battery thread

[kil187]

Originally Posted by michelletech

So the second week you charge it UP to different levels on purpose instead of going 100%, or drain it down to different levels than 0% then charge? Or both?

Originally Posted by labs point

do you charge fully coming home from store with brand new phone or do you let it fully discharge before charging it back up the very first time?

Good questions, waiting for the reply as this is highly informative for me, thanks.

[Simon_y7]

And another question, along the same lines: do you charge your phones while on or off? In the olden times, it was recommended to turn the phone off when charging.

[didiwags]

With my Droid X I did the whole charge it all the way, then turn it off and let it charge for an additional couple hours. It helped make it last longer. This was on the extended battery though. The regular battery sucked!!

[milkshed27]

Letting your battery fully discharge frequently is not a very good idea as this causes damage to the battery over time and shortens its life span. Here's a link to another post with some info. Hope this helps.

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[dennism1358]

I I leave the phone on when charging. I took mine off the charger at around 10:30 this morning before going to work and still have 69%. That’s with moderate use “texting, e-mail, lite surfing and playing around with it”

[swizzzer]

Nothing special about charging a phone. Its the battery. Just know that lithium batteries (in all cell phones) like to be charged. When you get a new battery (including with a new phone) it will take several charge/discharge cycles for the battery to reach its highest power density (best charge). Although it would be best to not let the battey get too low, that is not the real world, but don't obsess about it. Also charging with the phone on might take a little testing on your part, but the criteria is that if the phone has a 100% charge after charging all night, keep doing what it takes to get to the 100%.

[skyjjc]

With the older nicad batteries, it was it was pretty much mandatory to completely discharge and then recharge to 100% to eliminate the memory effect and a reduced capacity, i.e. conditioning the battery.

The next generation nimh batteries eliminated the memory effect, but the practice of conditioning the battery continued with debateable effect.

The newer lithium batteries can actually be damaged by running them completely down to zero charge and conditioning isnt really necessaary. The best approach is to simply charge often without regard to the charge of the battery at the time with the intent of keeping them near full charge as much as possible.

[dennism1358]

I have read the same articles about the new batteries. BUT I still condition them and always have great battery life out of my phones. My last phone was the DX and while others ed and moaned about battery life mine was good. So that works for me.

I took my resound off the charger at 10:30am yesterday before work and just plugged it back in at 8:45 this morning when I was down to 1%. That is with moderate use. I’m on wi-fi here at home as well as at the office

[jas o]

I was at my desk at 6:00am 100% battery. Now 1:00PM @ 66%. couple dozen phone calls, half a dozen text, 3 email accounts @15minutes, med screen brightness, live wall paper, blue tooth has been on since I got here. Weather updating hourly. Downloaded three programs that I missed yesterday. 4G

I can't complain about that. I would have been @50% on my TB with 3G. If I was on 4G I would have been down around 30%.

Still not great battery life but definitely an improvement.

[jas o]

Now 5:06PM another couple of dozen calls and another half dozen or so text, 4G all day. Now at 44%. 11 hours at work and didn't have to plug in once.