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Re: Battery statistics and flashing bricks

 

Le 16/01/2017 à 16:36, advocatux a écrit :


Le 16/01/2017 à 12:46, advocatux a écrit :
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.

Thanks for those articles! I don't read Spanish, and I can't testify for Google's accuracy, but the article you sent me seems to go against what you say (part of it at least). It's clearly written that you have to let it discharge fully in order to calibrate the battery. It even goes as far as suggesting we should do this once every two months. That's exactly what I did when I replaced my battery, but it didn't stop my phone from dying with supposedly 53% battery on the next discharge.



Guillaume

This is just a case of 'missing in translation'.

You, me, and those articles are stating the same thing.

What do you understand by 'fully discharged'? To me a _fully_ discharged battery means it's completely drained. That's the bad situation for a battery.

Those articles aren't promoting 'you must drain your battery'. They state 'let your battery go low to that point in which the phone turn off itself'.


By "fully discharged" I mean I can't boot my phone at all, not even to the white bq screen. And if I plug the phone to the wall, I have to wait several minutes before I can turn it on again. Maybe this doesn't mean the battery is fully discharged, but if it doesn't, I don't know how to "really" drain it to a "real" zero. How can you do that?

Don't worry, I won't try!


Guillaume


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