BATTERY REVELATION
Posted on April 6th, 2025 by Joy Schwabach
A techie friend and I had an argument over phone batteries. I said you should wait until a battery gets down to 20 percent before charging it. He said that’s wrong. Turns out he’s right. The old nickel-cadmium batteries had memories that could get messed up if you didn’t fully drain them, at least once in a while. But lithium batteries do better when kept at 50 percent and above, because they stay cooler when they’re not working as hard. Now that I know this, I often top off my phone, but I take it off the charger when it reaches 80 percent. This will extend its life too. Though I use an adaptive battery setting on my phone to […]
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