Charge your mobile all night? These tips will help you improve the life of your mobile

You have your brand new phone always with you, always connected and it's time to go to sleep and you realize that the battery is almost shaking. Will I have time tomorrow to charge it before going to work? What if they call me urgently at night and it's turned off? This can make us think of a solution: leave it charging all night. A solution that entails an answer? No, it's not a bad thing to be connected to the charger all night (but with nuances).

The ideal in these cases is to have a programmer, useful for many other tasks such as managing the ignition time of the electric water heater or manage a ventilation or heating system and that we could now program so that it would only let the mobile charge for a few specific hours.But we assume that this is not possible for us, which leaves us naked before the previous question.

And despite what many may tell you, especially when they give you some advice in the store, we have to say no, that it is not bad to leave the mobile all night loading A belief based on a myth that has already been amply denied. A change in the way of acting that is motivated by the evolution that batteries have undergone.

It's not bad, but don't always load it like this

The myth comes from the way old nickel-cadmium batteries were used, something that no longer happens with current batteries Unlike its predecessors, they did not break down with prolonged loads over time. And it is also that the new phones on the market, more powerful with increasingly larger diagonals on the screens and more demanding processors require more consumption and therefore, since the batteries run out sooner, we must charge them frequently.

This continuous charge in the new lithium ion or lithium polymer batteries also has a new characteristic and that is that despite what many shop assistants tell you, they are not affected by the so-called “memory effect” so that no matter how many half charges we do, they do not affect the general life of the battery.

But going back to what concerns us, it is possible to charge the battery for hours, in this case while we sleep, since the new batteries have a system that interrupts charging when the battery has reached 100% of its capacity so that both overcharging of the batteries and a drop in capacity are avoided.

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Today&39;s batteries are intelligent and when they have just finished charging, they don&39;t continue to overcharge. However, we must bear in mind, however, that this type of action is not something that we must carry out every day."

And it is also that with this procedure we are going to prevent the batteries from fully discharging An action that we only have to carry out at the time of calibrating the battery but that we must avoid as far as possible since it is not good for the battery to reach 0% capacity frequently. What's more, letting a battery discharge below 5% or 10% is even harmful.

The commandments to optimize the battery

Therefore, if we had to give a series of tips to have our _smartphone_ or tablet with good battery he alth we could list the following:

• Charging Li-Ion batteries partially, between 30% and 80%, is much better than doing it completely complete.
• Keep the battery charge around 40% on average when we are not going to use it, as it is the ideal charge with which a Li-Ion battery can last long periods of time without being used.
• It is advisable to turn off the terminal for a while so that the battery and the phone rest.
• Calibrate from time to time the battery to solve small load reading errors.
• Use the specific charger for each mobile as each model is designed to work with an ideal charging power.
• Do not fully discharge the battery (except to calibrate) as allowing a battery to discharge below 5% or 10% is harmful.
• It is recommended that the battery charge cycles are not homogeneous, that is, that they do not always last the same time nor do we make them with the same percentages.

The steps to follow to calibrate the battery

And after all this we could not say goodbye with a measure aimed at correcting the he alth of the battery since as we use it, it will lose efficiency by its nature. So we are going to proceed to recover the maximum useful charge available to our battery:

• We must make the battery drain completely using our phone or tablet. Moreover, if it is suspended or turned off due to low battery, it will turn on again until it is completely depleted.
• Leave the device turned off with the battery flat for between 5 and 7 hours.
• Connect the phone or tablet to the charger but without turning it on to fully charge the battery.
• Leave the device fully charged and plugged in for about 2 more hours, after the full charge signal.
• Unplug and start using.

These are tips that are very easy to carry out and that you probably already knew, but at this point we want to ask you if you follow any of these tips.

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