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Re: Battery statistics and flashing bricks

 

El 16/01/17 a las 11:43, Sam Bull escribió:
On Sat, 2017-01-14 at 14:49 +0100, Guillaume F wrote:
(with the exception of my very first full discharge,
which went quite normally). So the hardware doesn't seem to be the
problem here and I probably can't be accused of mistreating my
battery :).
Everything I've ever heard about Li-ion batteries suggests that a full
discharge damages the battery and reduces its life expectancy. I've
seen recommendations not to allow the battery to go below 20%, and
other suggestions to aim to keep the battery in the range of 40-80%
(possibly with an occassional 100% charge).

On my Nexus 4, most of the time, the battery works well for me. I've
had the very rare occurrence, that the battery drops 50% in a few hours
when I've not even been using it, but in general it is not a problem.
One thing you mentioned was WiFi, which I never use and always have
disabled (using mobile data instead), so that's a possible difference.

I think Guillaume means he let the phone turn off when battery ran low, not a real full discharge because, as you said, that is not good for a Li-ion battery.

BQ has several articles [*] about this topic in general, and about how to calibrate the battery in your BQ phone in particular.

Those articles are written in Spanish, but maybe they're helpful enough using a translation tool.

Regards.

--
advocatux

[*] http://www.mibqyyo.com/articulos/categorias/aula-bq/bateria-carga/



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