Are You Charging Batteries The Wrong Way? - Comments Page 2

There are FREE apps that will alert you when your battery is fully charged, and some of those apps will alert you on a USER-set percentage of charging.
Just look for 'Battery' in the App Store.

I have & use "smart" charger/surge protectors, and love them. One side is constant current. The other side intermittently checks the plugged in device for need to charge, then either charges or withholds current until a need to charge is found.
There is an override button to cause immediate charging on the "smart" side. Very easy & dependable.

Bob, Thank you for a very informative article on the proper procedure for charging batteries. I learned a lot!

Sounds like frequently plugging in to one of those portable battery rechargers would be a good solution.

Bloody hell. So instead of your phone being just a practical tool to use, and recharge overnight when it makes perfect sense (to the user) it has now become an adult version of those bloody stupid tamagotchi keyring pets. So perhaps that's what they were about? To train the next generation to serve their machines, instead of the machines serving them.

Gyppo

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And I thot the care and feeding of Japenese knives and the necessary water stones was a murky and complicated affair. All of a sudden this is simple when I think about charging my battery.

For me, the real question is this. (If I am very CDO about the charging stuff, there will still be times when Acts of DOG happen and my battery will die. Or I forget that I have plugged it in when the next client has a cardiopulmonary arrest.) How many screw-ups are allowed before I have done the vampire thing with my battery and put a steak in its heart? 3 screw ups and I'm out of luck?

Very interesting to know after using the NiCad method of recharging. A little and often will be the new method from now on.

There should be no reason for a charger designed for lithium-ion batteries to go into "trickle-charge" mode. Lithium-ion batteries *do not* lose their charge just sitting on a shelf.

Call me cynical, but I suspect manufacturers know their current charging method is bad for the batteries and that's how they get us to buy new phones. (After "I need more storage," I would bet "my battery doesn't hold a charge" is the next most-often cited reason for "needing" a new phone.)

Thanks Bob, I've been wondering about exactly this question.
I have a Samsung Galaxy S6 which comes with a fast charger. I wonder if the rules are any different for using this charger than the normal rate.

Thanks for the distillation. I believe I had that site up one time which if digested should earn a PHD. I have a really interesting story about the newer smart NMH and charger but it would be off-topic here.

Totally opposite of what I've thought. I've been doing the drain it and leave it on the charger over night thing for years. I'll make this change. Thanks for the article.
Cheers, Guy

I have been doing the same thing as Guy. Thanks Bob for this information.

I have been thinking about this and was wondering... If the batteries have a set number of charges in them, how does the "sip method" impact this?
Thanks as always for great, practical information.

Thanks again Bob! I have been doing this exactly wrong. As I'm sure many others could say, I'm a hold over from the NiCad days and carried those habits with me. It's going to be hard to make myself change but I know that the phone is off the charger tonight at least.

Hi Bob,
I have a simple suggestion on which I would like your opinion please. If I use a timer on my Vodafone Smart Phone 6, will I prolong the life of the battery? What I have in mind is to set the timer for , say, 40 to 60 minutes, and commence the charge at about 15% capacity- would this be a pretty simple solution to the over-charge problem? One could go to sleep happy that the phone would not be over-charging after about 90 minutes.

I think the battery university needs to go to a university school to learn what they are talking about. I have never heard such bull-crap in my life !