Charge First or Dive Right In?

[BAreEhD]

I'm about to pick up my S6 from the post office. I'm assuming it'll come partially charged. What's the accepted best practise with initial charging? Should I fully charge it prior to first use, or should I deplete it a little further this evening (it's 7:00 pm here) and give it a full charge overnight?

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[clevin]

doesn't matter, li-ion battery has no memory effect, plug and unplug anytime you want.

For accurate report of battery % by the OS, do a calibration some time soon, i.e., next week, or in two weeks, or in three weeks, whenever you get to it.

 

[droidguy1964]

doesn't matter, li-ion battery has no memory effect, plug and unplug anytime you want.

For accurate report of battery % by the OS, do a calibration some time soon, i.e., next week, or in two weeks, or in three weeks, whenever you get to it.

Yep.

 

[PsychDoc]

doesn't matter, li-ion battery has no memory effect, plug and unplug anytime you want.

For accurate report of battery % by the OS, do a calibration some time soon, i.e., next week, or in two weeks, or in three weeks, whenever you get to it.

^^^
What he said.

 

[BAreEhD]

Thanks folks.

Yup, this is a damn nice phone!

 

[eak1570]

One more question. Should I do the factory reset first? (To clean everything up)Or doesn't matter.. Thanks.

 

[beatsandlife]

How does one calibrate a battery?

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[clevin]

One more question. Should I do the factory reset first? (To clean everything up)Or doesn't matter.. Thanks.

people think a hard reset helps to straight out problems with major system update.

Although I agree with it, this is a brand new phone, im unsure it will do anything. It doesn't hurt neither though.

How does one calibrate a battery?

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charge to 100%, use it to run battery down to below 10%, charge back to 100%.

This is to produce a calibration curve for the system so it can report battery level accurately (system has to convert voltage to % numbers, correlation is not linear). It doesn't really do anything to battery itself.

Calibration will become necessary every 30-40 charge cycles, or when you have a new battery.

 

[Almeuit]

Dive in. It may drop quick but.. It won't hurt anything.