If you recharge a battery (mobile phone one specifically) before it runs out completely of the charge stored, do you run the risk of reducing its battery life as compared to the case when you recharge it once its on the verge of losing all its charge?
Answers: aahh muleque! is right, but that is not the complete answer. Yes, most lithium Ion batteries (and lithium polymer batteries as well) do not have "memories" as the older nicad and nimh batteries did.
However...and big however...even though thats the case, lithium ion batteries have a limited life cycle.
No matter how much charge is placed into a battery, a charge cycle is a charge cycle. So you let your battery ride all the way down. Then charge it..its a charge cycle. If you let it only go down half way, then charge it to full, that too is a charge cycle.
Most industry batteries last 400-600 charge cycles before losing its ability to spit out a consistent power stream (phone shuts off for no reason, but when you turn it on it shows full) or cannot hold a charge greater than 50% of of its first day of use.
So if you wait til your battery is 30% charge remaining, or less, you will use less charge cycles than someone who charged it whenever it dropped below 60%.
Also, it should be noted that leaving a phone ON and on the charger can often bleed charge cycles faster as well. Many of today%26#39;s phones draw their energy from the battery full time, and if you remove the battery even though the phone is plugged in, the phone will not work. So leaving a phone on...for days at a time, and on the charger seems like a good idea, but can burn charge cycles at a much faster rate. Just ask all those guys who had Ipods on car chargers. six months later, the batteries were useless. You do. It%26#39;s happened to me. What has also happened to me is that I kept it on the charger too long. And that also reduces the battery%26#39;s life. idk, but ive always let the battery die (cell phone, laptop, etc.) and ive never had any problems yes it depends on the type of battery, the chemical element that compund it.
New cellphones uses Li-ion (Lithium) battery, what makes it stronger and there%26#39;s no problem of recharging at eny time you want.
Old battery technologies were used to use Ni-Cd or Ni-Mh elements. The first one you have to use all the battery to recharge, otherwise it%26#39;ll lose the time life fast. the second one is much better and it%26#39;s still used for digital camera batteries, because it%26#39;s good and cheaper than Lithium ones.
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