Should I let battery die or charge from <5%?

[hasko]

Yeah so like the topic says which is better for maintaining the battery and having a longer battery life?

Also when charging should you do it when the phone is booted up or once it is dead and then you put the charger in so the phone charges on that black screen where all that appears is the battery cell?

Thanks

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[Golfdriver97]

Yeah so like the topic says which is better for maintaining the battery and having a longer battery life?

Also when charging should you do it when the phone is booted up or once it is dead and then you put the charger in so the phone charges on that black screen where all that appears is the battery cell?

Thanks

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I fully discharge once a month. For the other days, I charge between 15 and 30%, depending on the situation. I plug the phone in overnight and for a few hours in the morning, and I am fine.

 

[2defmouze]

It's actually supposed to be not good for the battery to fully discharge. Better is just to charge whenever you can, don't worry too much about it. Not that getting to 0% will kill it, but try to avoid that whenever possible.

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[frenziedfemale]

The batteries in these gadgets do not like to be fully depleted. Charge it when you can, do not let it drain fully. You can find a lot of info about this here Advantages & Limitations of the Lithium-ion Battery - Battery University

This a direct quote...

Lithium-ion is a low maintenance battery, an advantage that most other chemistries cannot claim. There is no memory and no scheduled cycling is required to prolong the battery's life.

 

[sjsmr2]

The N4 uses a lithium polymer battery instead of lithium ion though. But I know I try to charge between 5% and 10%.

 

[RumoredNow]

Letting a battery drain all the way is never good... I agree with those above.

Heat is the number one enemy for battery life. Charging with the screen on is convenient, but it's better to leave the screen off. Likewise use of the phone or running apps while charging would add heat. Charging while powered off is not necessary. That might be overkill. The heat difference between idle on charger and powered down on charger would be negligible. It's when you add activity to charging that heat makes a significant increase.

Constant top off charging of a battery is never good. Even Li-Ion which has no memory. Any charging adds heat. Any heat degrades a battery. There is no escaping that with today's tech.

Use the phone how you normally would. Everyone's charging cycle is different. When the battery gets down to a point that it won't last until you can next get to a charger, then plug it in. Avoid running the screen or using functions if possible. Remove from the charger as quickly as possible after a full charge is reached.

Otherwise, relax and don't stress about it. Yeah the battery in an N4 is not replaceable, but with minimal and proper care it should last a long time.

 

[jc0187]

Well if letting the battery fully drain is never good, looks like I'll be running into problems soon cause that's what I do just about every day. Not that I do this intentionally, its just that the battery on this thing is garbage. I am constantly reminding myself not to pull my phone out to respond to msgs unless I absolutely need to. So instead, I check my phone once every 5 or 6 hours to mass send responses to text msgs. It barely lasts the entire 12 hour days.

 

[return_0]

Well if letting the battery fully drain is never good, looks like I'll be running into problems soon cause that's what I do just about every day. Not that I do this intentionally, its just that the battery on this thing is garbage. I am constantly reminding myself not to pull my phone out to respond to msgs unless I absolutely need to. So instead, I check my phone once every 5 or 6 hours to mass send responses to text msgs. It barely lasts the entire 12 hour days.

Have you updated to 4.2.2? What do you keep on (brightness, wifi, bluetooth, etc.)? My N4 can easily last a full day with over 4 hours of screen time.

 

[RumoredNow]

Power users often have this problem... Regular users should not.

More details might help diagnose what you have going on. Does your phone switch between E/3G/H often? That's a notorious battery drain... Using browser heavily? Lots of talk time? Lots of location fixes?

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[vasekvi]

Use the phone in a way that best suits your needs. If you are using your phone in a way that will lessen it's recharge cycles or health, it will take quite a while to do so, like at least a year or more. At that point if it becomes an issue, replace the battery or batteries if you have a spare. They're cheap enough. That being said having a spare battery that you rotate in will make each battery last twice as long though whatever your usage habits are.

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[RumoredNow]

Use the phone in a way that best suits your needs. If you are using your phone in a way that will lessen it's recharge cycles or health, it will take quite a while to do so, like at least a year or more. At that point if it becomes an issue, replace the battery or batteries if you have a spare. They're cheap enough. That being said having a spare battery that you rotate in will make each battery last twice as long though whatever your usage habits are.

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With the nonreplaceable nature of the N4 battery a daily swap is out of the question or very difficult at best.

The battery can be replaced with partial disassembly if the original unit is failing.

 

[Sammmmmy]

Is your battery lithium battery? If that, you should charge it while your phone start to alarm. Don't charge it when it out of electricity.