Top 5 smartphone battery myths

       Top 5 smartphone battery myths

 Myth 1. Closing “background” applications will prolong your charge

Most users believe that force closing all of the recently launched applications significantly reduces device overload and extends the battery life. However, this theory is more of an illusion. When a smartphone suffers a lack of RAM memory, both iOS and Android operation systems developed a function to unload or “freeze” applications that are not in use at the moment. You can manually swipe the application in the list of recently launched programs, but it doesn’t mean you stop the program – you just pushed the application out of RAM. In fact, the programs that you close out still continue to run in the background. This means they still consume resources and reduce the autonomy of your device. Craig Federighi, Apple’s senior vice president of Software Engineering, in a response about manual application closing, gave a clear answer in regards to this: “No, and again not.”  

Myth 2. Over Night charging kills the battery

It’s a rather common misconception… if the battery is overheated every night due to the long hours of charging, it will quickly fail. In fact, manufacturers have solved this problem in all modern gadgets. When the level reaches 100%, the charging process stops automatically. That’s why the next morning, both the smartphone itself and the charger turn out to be cold. The only thing to remember is that the battery life is made up of a certain number of full charge cycles. The more often you charge the more you shorten the life of your smartphone. You don’t kill the device of course, but slowly take away the battery life of it.

Myth 3. Turning my phone off is totally useless

Truth: Resetting your phone could help conserve battery. Most people don’t fully close apps when they’re done using them, so those apps are still working in the background. Each one might not use a ton of juice, but the more that are running, the shorter your battery life will be. If you’re in the habit of leaving apps up, make a point of turning your phone off at least once a week to close those battery suckers. 

 Myth 4. CHARGING THROUGH A LAPTOP MAY DAMAGE THE BATTERY

Again a misconception, charging a phone through a laptop will only yield a slower charge and nothing more. This won’t harm the battery in any way.

Myth 5. Rapid charging harms the battery

This myth was refuted in 2014 by scientists from the SLAC National Acceleration Laboratory in a series of experiments. In fact, fast charging does not harm the battery in any way. Misusing on the other hand, can speed up battery wear, and the main reason for this is users’ lack of patience. Normal charging accustoms to charge the device every day, and even once every few days. “Quick Charge” technology offers to charge the device three times rapidly to 50% – it’s faster than charging once to 100%. And when the “charge tank” is almost empty – it can be filled in 30 minutes enough to hold up to the evening. The user in this case starts to connect the device to the outlet more often. Only frequent “discharge-charging” algorithms are what really hurt the battery and reduce its service life. The average life of lithium polymer batteries is about 400 cycles; above this number the capacity begins to fall exponentially. That means, the cellphone loses about 10% of capacity after 400 cycles and for 800 cycles the fall will be much more than 20%.