7 Tips To Follow To Increase Battery Life Of Smart Devices

7 Tips To Follow To Increase Battery Life Of Smart Devices

Here are 7 tips which will help you prolong the health of the battery of your smartphone, tablet and laptop.    Saturday, October 04, 2014:  Are you really worried about battery life of your smartphone, tablet or laptop? Short battery life of all your smart devices may become your headache as soon as they become a year older. Then you usually think about replacing the old battery or follow some tips which may extend the battery life. But it's not necessary that you follow such tips only after the problem arises, rather you can apply those rules from day one. So here are 7 tips which will help you prolong the health of the devices' battery: 1. Know the basics: Know the basic facts about the longevity of batteries. Smartphones, tablets and laptops have lithium-ion batteries usually which start losing their capacity after long-time and daily use. Batteries are designed to retain around 80 per cent of their capacity till a certain limit in charge cycles. You must be wondering what is a charge cycle. Well, a battery completes one charge cycle when it completes 100 per cent and then gets drained to 0. 2. Maintain Screen Brightness: You must know that if your smartphone screen has maximum brightness then the battery reserve is reduced slowly. The display levels should be reduced manually to a lower level or enable automatic brightness adjustment to save energy. If you are having animated screen-savers it can become a great reason for draining out battery life. You should also keep your device cool all the time to prolong battery life. 3. Keep Temperature In Mind: Temperature factor plays a crucial role in device's battery life . If you stay in extreme weather conditions, battery capacity will drain out faster. Direct sunlight and freezing temperatures should be avoided on smart devices, as much as possible. Remember extreme heat is more harmful than extreme cold. 4. Signals and Connections: When you are travelling somewhere, your smartphone's network seeks manual intervention. When this search for network goes on, battery life gets reduced. Bluetooth also drains out battery fast. To ensure better battery life for your smart devices, you need to stay in a zone where network signal is quite healthy. Airplane mode is a quick way to stop battery drain. 5. Don't Keep Devices Plugged-In Most Of The Time: Once the battery is fully charged at 100 per cent, make sure that the device is not plugged in anymore. Hence, overcharging is not at all a healthy practice. But this practice cannot be implemented in case you are using your laptop. Make sure you discharge laptop battery to at least 40 per cent and then recharge it. 6. Partial discharge vs. Full discharge: Partial discharge cycles are better than full discharge cycles, keeping the charge in 40-80 per cent range. It means you should discharge your device till 40 per cent and charge it till 80 per cent to get the best. But be practical while following these rules and don't be blind. 7. Battery Replacement: Even if you follow all the rules, there is a certain limit your battery life can last. So look out for the indicators to make it out that your device battery needs a replacement. The symptoms are: you need to charge your device more than before, it's getting warm during charging or it's getting discharged very shortly.