{"id":10889,"date":"2017-05-07T09:00:47","date_gmt":"2017-05-07T14:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/?p=10889"},"modified":"2017-05-05T16:11:48","modified_gmt":"2017-05-05T21:11:48","slug":"learn-spot-weak-smartphone-battery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/learn-spot-weak-smartphone-battery\/","title":{"rendered":"Learn How to Spot a Weak Smartphone Battery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There are a few tell-tale signs of a weak smartphone battery. However, you should first check to see whether or not your battery appears weaker than it is simply because all of your apps are draining your battery. Use PowerPro feature to identify tasks that are consuming too much of your phone\u2019s battery, to see if this helps to improve its battery life:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/2qJ6OES\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10304\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10304\" src=\"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Save-battery-Life-300x70.jpg\" alt=\"Save-battery-Life\" width=\"300\" height=\"70\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Save-battery-Life-300x70.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Save-battery-Life.jpg 340w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">PowerPro will help you to manage your apps and remove any tasks that are draining your phone\u2019s battery. It will also offer you suggestions on how you can make your device\u2019s battery last longer. Still, if better managing your apps doesn\u2019t help to significantly improve your phone\u2019s battery life, then your phone may have a weak battery. The following are some of the biggest signs of a bad battery.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Read More: <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/happens-battery-life-phone-ages\/\"><b>What Happens to Your Battery Life as Your Phone Ages?<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Signs of a Bad Phone Battery<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>Your phone won\u2019t turn on.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> If you recently had your phone in your pocket or a bag that got soaked from a rainstorm, or if you dropped your phone in a toilet, then you may have killed your phone\u2019s battery.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>Your new phone dies quickly.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> If you just purchased a new smartphone, your phone\u2019s battery should not be dying quickly (unless you\u2019re using it constantly to watch videos, play games, and et cetera). You should be able to go for some time without charging your device, since the battery is new. If it\u2019s dying after a few hours, then you likely bought a phone with a bad battery.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>Your phone\u2019s battery is no longer smooth.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> If you\u2019re having issues with your phone\u2019s battery, try removing the battery (if removable) to examine the surface. If the surface is not smooth \u2014 i.e. if it has a \u201cbulge\u201d \u2014 then your battery has gone bad.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>Your phone isn\u2019t charging correctly.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> If your phone is not charging properly, if it loses its charge quickly after charging, or if it only works when connected to a power source, then you have a weak phone battery.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>Your phone is hot when it charges.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> If your phone gets hot when you\u2019re charging it \u2014 and it hasn\u2019t yet reached 100% \u2014 then your battery is starting to die.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>How to Improve Your Phone\u2019s Battery<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If your phone has a bad battery, whether from the start or else due to damage, then you\u2019ll need to replace it. No matter what you decide to do, you should make an effort to preserve your new phone battery. Click here to use DFNDr\u2019s Total Charge feature to monitor your phone\u2019s charging process so that you can prevent damage to your battery:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"psafe:\/\/launch\/total_charge\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3583\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3583\" src=\"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/BOTAO_EN_total_charge_02-2-300x78.png\" alt=\"BOTAO_EN_total_charge_02 (2)\" width=\"300\" height=\"78\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You want your smartphone\u2019s battery to have a good, long life. Find out how to spot a weak battery, and how to improve its performance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[234,4025,352,2461],"class_list":["post-10889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-performance","tag-battery","tag-dfndr","tag-powerpro","tag-total-charge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10889\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}