Battery maintenance

to measure your battery get a Ac/Dc-measuring tool.
To fully recharge your cellular-battery, do this =

When its brand new, charge the battery up to 14 hours.
Use it until phone goes BLEEB (shutdown)
Charge 14 hours again. (dont cut the charging process)
Use it until Shutdown.
Once more charge the battery 14 hours.

after this, your battery is in TOP-CONDITION.
Allways use your battery to SHUTDOWN sequence and after
that charge it. Never cut down or break the charging procedure.

You can say whatever things with lithium batteriesm that you can charge
them whenever you want yaddayadda.

Trust me, ive consulted the NOKIA engineers bout this.

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Thats a bit odd - Lion Batterys dont have a memory or the odd constraints of old Nicads.

According to the manual you recharge until full, discharge repeat three times.

My battery is fine, and lasts with use for about 36 hours. Im talking talk time of an hour, checking email, irda etc....

I have done this with all my Nokia phones and never noticed any problems. Also Laptop and other PDAs which also use Lion dont go on about the same charging cycle ie: 14 hours.

Im sure I saw something on a website somewhere that said, recharge for 14 hours is a myth.

If I can find it again I will post.

http://www.cell-phones-service.com/tips/batteries.htm

Here's one example.

http://md-l.amulation.com/archive/199806/msg00124.html
http://www.1-800-notebook.com/ultra/battmtn.htm
http://www.batteryzone.com/bz.asp?page=batterytypes
http://www.aardvarkinc.com/docs/battery_information.htm

Li-ion batteries 'die' at a steady rate, dependant on temperature. Ideally you should refrigerate Li-ion cells. This lowers the rate of death. At room temperature they lose 20% of their capacity a year, even if they are not being used. The ideal battery capacity to store a Li-ion battery is 40%, and in a fridge (around 5 degrees). As said before, they have no memory effect. You can charge these at any level and they wont deteriorate. Be careful charging these beasts in anything without a protection circuit because they can do wierd and wonderful things (very like fireworks..) if you over charge them😊

This is just an insight from a radio amateur who works portable quite a bit and has experience using batteries (especially li-ions). Not me, but i do work portable with lead acid batteries and they need charging properly, although they do not have a memory effect.

MikeS