Several things that you believe about your smartphone battery are not true. As the number of these phones increases, the myths also spread rapidly across the world. From charging to battery memory, here are three myths about your smartphone battery you should stop believing.
1. Battery overload
There are people who believe that charging a phone overnight destroys the battery due to overcharge. This is not true because these phones are too smart to allow an overcharge. The Lithium-ion battery automatically stops charging when it hits 100%. The only thing that happens is that the battery will fall to a lower percentage and probably start charging again and this reduces your phone’s lifespan by some minimal percentage.
2. 0% before charging
Some of you believe that your phone has to fall to 0% before you plug it into a power source for charging. This, in fact, destroys the modern batteries by increasing their wear as opposed to partial discharge technique. It is recommended that you charge your phone battery before it requests for charging.
3. Battery memory
Some of you who are still stuck in the old nickel-cadmium (NiCad) battery era. This has made you believe that modern technology still allows your battery to keep the memory of how it is usually charged. This is the basis of many believing that you must wait until the battery is 0% before recharging it. The truth is that modern batteries do not keep a charging memory.