So many lifespan of lithium batteries has been shortened due to the way we charge our phones. These practices can shorten the lifespan of your battery.
1. Overnight Charging: leaving your smartphone throughout the night causes more harm than good to the life of your smartphone battery. Its a very bad practice.
2. Charging and Using the phone Simultaneously: it’s a bad practice to charge and use your phone to do tasks, a heat up of electrons would occur in the battery and then shortspan the battery life.
3.Draining Battery Completely :it’s very wrong to completely drain the battery before Charging it again, in this process the battery life would keep diminishing, its advisable to leave a 20% charge remaining before charging again. Do not completely drain the battery to 0%.
4.Don’t let your Battery fall below 40%: the best way to charge your phone is keeping it within the range of 40%-80%. In this manner of charging, your battery life remains stable. And keeps it for a very long time. You’d notice that Charging your phone battery to 100% keeps the battery stressed.
5. Unplug Charger after Charging: many Android users fail at this, even when your phone is charged, some still opt to leaving the charger in the phone. Its a good practice to unplug charger after charging.
6.Use Specified Chargers: some chargers are merely battery destroyers, use the charger Specified for your phone as different chargers has different rating