Cell Phone

[lowell holmes]

Do you charge yours every night or do you let it run down and then charge it?

Just curious. Is it better to do one or the other?

[Jim Becker]

Current generations of batteries used in these devices do not have "Memory" like the old ni-cads did, so you can keep them charged up. There is a limited number of full charge cycles, but it's a bit number and shouldn't be an issue for the typical life of a wireless phone. My phone goes on the charge pad every night.

[Bruce Wrenn]

I still use a "Startrek Commuticator" (flip phone) which I charge once a week. Wife charges her smart phone every day.

[Matt Day]

I charge my smartphone every night no matter what, plug it in every car ride, and in the shop. Also sometimes use a small portable battery to charge on the go if I need too.

This question was valid before flip phones were cool. Not anymore as Jim said.

[Keith Westfall]

Every night.

[roger wiegand]

I remember the days when you could get a full days use out of a cell hone without recharging. No more. Charged every night at least, days with heavier use I need to top up in late afternoon as well. It would be fine with me to have a phone a millimeter thicker if I could depend on it lasting all day.

[Mike Null]

my 6 had to be charged every day but the 11 will go 2 or 3 days without charging.

[Curt Harms]

I remember the days when you could get a full days use out of a cell hone without recharging. No more. Charged every night at least, days with heavier use I need to top up in late afternoon as well. It would be fine with me to have a phone a millimeter thicker if I could depend on it lasting all day.

I have an Asus phone (Zenphone Max Plus) that will go several days between charges. However, I turn WiFi on only when I need it and don't have data on that one. If I leave the WiFi on by accident I can tell it by battery discharge rate.

[Brian Elfert]

I charge my phone nightly and I average 70% remaining. I have an iPhone 8 Plus. Lithium batteries do have a limit on how many full charge cycles they can do, but charging a phone that is at 50% to 100% is only considered half a charge cycle. I don't recall ever running out of battery since I started charging daily. I used to charge every other day and multiple times I got so low the second day I didn't want to use the phone anymore for fear of running out and missing an important call from work.

I seem to hear more complaints from Android phone users than from iPhone users about battery life, but that is no scientific research. My father had a Samsung Galaxy S4 until recently. He had battery problems almost from the day he got the phone with having to charge twice a day and he is not a heavy user. The S4 still had a replaceable battery and I bought him a new Anker brand battery about two years ago and it was only a few months before he couldn't go a full day again.

[Bruce Volden]

What's a cell phone???

My phone hangs on the wall like all phones are supposed to.

Bruce

[lowell holmes]

My wife pays for my cell phone, that way she can contact me when she wants to.:)

[Myk Rian]

We plug our Samsung S7s in every night before bed. Her battery lasts all day. I run a lot of stuff on mine, so lately I've had to use a backup battery some times.
I'm contemplating an S10 soon.

[Jerome Stanek]

My lead acid battery in my bag cell phone lasts 3 days. I do like that the handset cord doesn't get tangled as much now that it is a few years old

[Lee Schierer]

I charge my Samsung J3 every 2-3 days. The biggest battery drain are apps. Every app has some little piece running in the background that uses power. The more of them installed the worse it gets. I go through my phone regularly and turn them off, most especially notifications so the app isn't always checking for them.

[Tom Stenzel]

My ZTE android phone has an 'ultra power save mode' that will make the battery last for at least 4 days. That shuts off the bluetooth, wifi, GPS and background apps. I generally leave it in that mode. I call it my electronic tether as my probation officer (aka SWMBO) says I need to have it with me.

If I use the phone for surfing the net the battery will fizzle out in less than a day.

I charge mine when needed.

The "do everything with a phone" is really annoying. My wife won tickets to see the Detroit Lions. In the old days she would have gotten paper tickets. Instead she had to load apps from three different sources to get the tickets, process the tickets and then display the tickets. Plus you have to be on-line at the time the ticket is displayed. This is to see the Lions. The Lions! She found out she won the tickets minutes after they had taken a shellacking by the Vikings!

It's not an improvement.

-Tom

[Derek Meyer]

I plug mine in every night, though most days I use less than 20% of the battery. It is an iPhone XS Max.

My wife has an iPhone X and she routinely has to charge during the day. She's constantly on hers, either talking to family, Facetiming, or watching videos. I make/receive an average of less than 5 calls a week on mine. Most of what I do is texting her.

[Leo Graywacz]

Galaxy S8. Generally I charge it every night whether it needs it or not. I use the hotspot at the shop because there is no internet. I can have the hotspot on for 8-9 hours and use the phone occasionally for texting and a couple phone calls a day and at the end of the day (9am-1am) I'm usually at about 30-40% When I go up to my grandsons house for the weekend usually I don't charge it for the whole time until it's time to go home which is a 3+ hour ride home. Battery is so much better than my previous phone which was the S4.

[Steve Demuth]

Gotta start every day with a full charge. Some days, I still need a mid-day recharge. Roaming across wireless access points on our hospital campus kills charge. Days I'm not on campus I could get by on 40%, but even then it's easier to have the phone on the pad every night as part of a routine.

[Anuj Prateek]

Do you charge yours every night or do you let it run down and then charge it?

Just curious. Is it better to do one or the other?

I charge my phone for an hour before going to office. In office when I am at my desk, I plug my phone in. It's more of a habit than requirement. I like keeping battery > 70% all the time.

With current batteries, you can leave your phone on charging overnight, and even let you phone battery go to 0% without any problems.