5 Appropriate Ways to Charge Your Phone

Smartphones like other electronic devices need proper maintenance and careful handling to run in a good condition and be devoid of any kind of defects that may decrease their lifespan or even damage them at first stance. 

Charging your phone batteries appropriately may be the first favor that you can do to them as the battery stands to be one of the key factors that determine the standard existence of any smartphone. 

If that is the case, why not invest our time to do a research paper that will benefit anyone dealing with a mobile phone and help them to know which behavior could be harmful to their smartphones? In this article, we would like to present a piece of note about how to properly charge your phone. We fine-tune the best tips as follows: 

1. Using the Appropriate Phone Charger 

Avoid charging your smartphone with low-voltage chargers. Ideally, you should try using one from your phone manufacturer or from a trusted authority. Some of the mobile phone chargers are fakes and can't get your phone charged at normal voltages, they rather downsize the battery's durability and lead to its fast weakening. Using a manufacturer's charger or from a reliable source will help your phone get the maximum current of voltage required, and help strengthen the battery. 

2. Stop Using your Phone while Charging 

Generally, there is no danger in using a phone while charging, still overdoing this behavior adversely affects the lithium-ion battery used by many smartphones, overdoing it too can cause weakness in your phone battery and degrades its standard health conditions. 

Using a phone while charging tends to increase the burdens of the battery and put more stress on it, it forced it to handle two opposite tasks, on one side it tries refilling its lost energy and at the same time dispatching out the new energy that is just coming into it. This behavior caused the battery to overheat and with time it degraded to lose its capacity. 

The best practice is to do it moderately, not bring into your regular habit to use your phone at any time while charging, and never do it absolutely if it's extremely hot weather. 

3. Charge your Phone in a Conducive Environment 

Excessive heat and extreme cold are not favorable conditions for the stability of the phone battery. Charging your smartphone battery in an environment with very high or low temperatures could be the potential risk of damaging your phone battery.

Do you know that getting your phone charged at a beach or near ovens or putting it under your pillow or charging it inside the cooking room, non ventilated car, in direct sunlight all of those in addition to a very lower temperature like charging your phone during winters freezing and putting ice block over it to reduce the heats are not appropriate for the well-being of the battery as it caused it to overheat or over-cold which in turn drain its capacity? 

Most Android phone batteries are lithium-ion and don't endure high temperatures, because it increases the pressure inside the battery which most of the time caused internal heating followed by swelling and release of toxic chemicals or even explosion. 

The best and appropriate temperature for your cell phone battery range between 0°C and 35°C [32°F and 39°F], while any rise in the temperature of the phone battery above 50°C [122F°] is the indication of problems. 

4. Never Charge the Phone on Low-voltage 

I'm once a victim of using low voltage to charge my smartphone, I used the battery for a long time and it has never shown any defects before I plug it into a low power supply, and from there it lost all its capacity. 

Loading your cell phone on low current electricity, or any low power supply is not suitable, it's rather be undone because even doing it once can cost you a lot. 

Meanwhile, getting your smartphones charged on laptops, power banks, and low-voltage solar energy can also be bad for your battery, those are the alternate methods exclusively made for emergency uses, do not take them as regular means of charging your mobile phone. 

5. Avoid Over-charging your Phone

Most people don't hesitate to charge their cell phones until 100% to the extent that they leave no space for current circulation. They thought that was the best for the well-being of the battery, but those are unfortunate acts that cause phone batteries to drain faster than it supposed to. The same thing happened if you regularly let your phone battery be undercharged or exhausted completely. 

The appropriate way to charge your cell phone battery is to reload it before it goes below 20% and stop charging once it reaches 85% this surely helps your phone battery last longer. 

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Should you Charge your new Phone before first use 

The short answer is NO. In the past decades, people rushed to charge a newly bought phone for a long time, some even overcharged it for as long as 8 hours or worse to 24 hours, they did it in hopes to increase the durability of the battery, but does it worth of all those tedious work? No. The new phone does not need to be overwhelmed with unnecessary charges, it's going to be normal if you add a few amounts of charges to the new smartphone, but they do not need additional power for them to work perfectly. All new smartphones come with a certain amount of power usually 60% which makes them ready for use immediately after buying. 

How to Charge your Phone Faster 

Here are some tips to help boost charging your phone. 

• If you have no schedules or you don't expect calls switching off your phone or turning on Aeroplane mode while charging will get it load faster. 
• Use smart chargers with high voltage, and avoid those cheap chargers because they can even harm your smartphone, preferably use a phone manufacturer's charger. 
• Also using an old cable or a charger that has been used for too long can slow the rate of charging. 
• Find a place with moderate temperature. 
• Charge the phone on low power mode. 

Why won't my Phone Charge 

The potential reason behind slow charging or completely not receiving is that you are using the wrong charger that may not have the capacity to load your battery. 

Some new chargers might have been internally gotten damaged, or one of the chip circuits inside of it has burnt down. 

Try checking your charging port if there is some dust or debris that can prevent the cable from connecting with the port. 

If the problem persists try replacing the charging adapter or contact the nearest phone repairer.