One of the aspects that most concern users is autonomy. We use our smartphone for multiple tasks, both for leisure and for work, and running out of battery at a crucial moment is a huge obstacle that prevents us from continuing to use it normally. We have often talked about some methods to save battery, such as limiting the apps we use the least or this other with an Android setting, but it is inevitable that it happens to us from time to time and more when the battery begins to lose its capacity.
The batteries of our Android phones have a maximum capacity that it gets worse over the months. Approximately, after two years, the capacity of it will have been reduced due to charging cycles. Fortunately, we can follow these cycles to know how many we have. We know that it is not good to always recharge the mobile at 100%, but the best would be to keep the percentage between 20 and 80%, and fortunately many mobiles already include this option. We tell you how to activate it and how it extends the life of our batteries.
Do not charge your mobile to 100% if it is not necessary, and do not let it run out completely
To avoid straining the battery and for it to lose a large part of its real capacity, it is necessary to keep the percentage between 20 and 80%, since the physical qualities of lithium-ion batteries mean that with percentages higher or lower than these, they degrade faster. It’s optimal, but It’s kinda tedious to be aware from the moment our mobile reaches this figure. Some apps do it for us, but they require obtaining permissions root.
In the same way, It is also not certain that the battery is completely drained.. That is, it is not at all advisable to let the cell phone turn off. Except for one case you want to calibrate your battery.
As we said, there are apps that perform this function of stopping charging when it reaches 80%, but you may not want to root your phone, or you may not know what it is. ‘East. So some manufacturers natively integrate this function in the phones they launch in the market. Let’s see which brands add it and how it is activated.
Here’s how manufacturers protect your phone’s battery
It is true that this feature has existed for a while with some manufacturers, but be aware that not all models are compatible
we start with Samsung, one of the manufacturers that places the most phones in the world. For the past few years you’ve had an option in your settings called “battery protection” that does just that. To turn it on, go to Settings > Battery & maintenance > Battery > More settings > Protect battery. Thus, our Galaxy will stop charging when it reaches 85% of its capacity.
In the case of Google Pixel, the Mountain View company has enabled a setting called “smart charging”. It really doesn’t fulfill the same purpose, but rather it maintains a slower charge (which makes the device less hot) during the night, and when the new day approaches, it finishes completing it, so we will find it charged at 100 %. This is another valid method, although in this case the load cycles would not be kept. To activate it we will go to Settings> Battery> Smart functions preferences> Smart charging.
Kingdom (and its brothers OPPO and OnePlus) has also been able to adapt this technique to preserve our batteries, with an intermediate formula between what Google does and the method followed by other companies that we have named. This function is in Settings> Battery> Optimized nightly charging and it will stop charging when it reaches 85%, completing it when we wake up in the morning.
We searched for this function in Xiaomi, Redmi and POCO mobiles with MIUI 14, and it seems that it is no longer available, while it was in the previous version of the Xiaomi layer. Therefore, owners of a phone from the Asian manufacturer will not be able to activate it natively and will have to use third-party applications.
Alternatively, we have a very useful appBatteryGuru, which does not stop charging but sends a notification when our phone reaches a certain percentage, so we would be aware and could unplug the phone from the socket.
The brands also want us to keep our battery with the maximum capacity, even if not all of them integrate the option
As we have seen, this way of preserving the autonomy of our smartphones is very useful, so much so that the manufacturers themselves have added this option among the settings. If you have it available, It is recommended to activate itso your battery will lose less capacity over time.
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