battery Conditioning

Whenever your phone is left with one bar in the battery indicator, just turn wi-fi, bluetooth and GPS on. This should do the trick within 20-30 minutes. Can't wait? Get your phone to play some MP3s on the speakers! 😊

Psyxologos wrote:Whenever your phone is left with one bar in the battery indicator, just turn wi-fi, bluetooth and GPS on. This should do the trick within 20-30 minutes. Can't wait? Get your phone to play some MP3s on the speakers! 😊

i thought from other posts i have read that this was no longer required with the newer type of battery technoligy?

No, jazzyc-01 is correct. It never ceases to amaze me how in mobile phone shops you still get the sales person telling the customer to "give it an overnight charge the first time". This is not necessary any more, there are basically 3 types of rechargable battery: NI-CAD, Ni-Mh, and Li-on or Li-polymer. Traditionally we only ever had NI-CAD batteries, which must be discharged comletely before being recharged otherwise they suffered with memory effect, in otherwords they would never completely charge/discharge causing the battery capacity to fall. Then came along Ni-Mh batteries, which suffered less with memory effect but still had it, you could get away with a part charge occasionally. But, with the advent of Li-on and Li-polymer, it makes no difference when you charge it, it will always give you full capacity from the moment it's full. The only thing to remember is it takes two or three cycles to get to full capacity from new, but you don't need to leave it on overnight. Once your phone beeps to say it's full it no longer charges the battery, so you may as well take it off. One thing to note with Li-on batteries is that they generally can be recharged about 300 times, but each time you plug in, it counts as one charge even if you are only topping it up, and they are light in weight compared to the others, but not able to supply as much current in one go, so are only suitable for light duty applications such as mobiles and so on.