{"id":12459,"date":"2017-07-10T09:00:35","date_gmt":"2017-07-10T14:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/?p=12459"},"modified":"2017-07-10T12:07:23","modified_gmt":"2017-07-10T17:07:23","slug":"much-capacity-decrease-1000-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/much-capacity-decrease-1000-charges\/","title":{"rendered":"How Much Does Capacity Decrease After 1000 Charges?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As smartphones age, they will no longer be able to hold a charge as long as they could when they were new. One of the biggest reasons this happens is because people do not take care of their phone batteries very well. It\u2019s very easy to damage a smartphone battery. The easiest way to damage your smartphone\u2019s battery is to overcharge it. This happens when you leave your phone plugged in after it\u2019s reached 100%. Click here to use Total Charge to protect your battery from overcharging:<\/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><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Total Charge makes properly charging your phone simple by alerting you that your phone is done charging, and that it\u2019s time to disconnect it from your charger. Additionally, it will let you know how long your phone will take to charge so you\u2019re never damaging the battery by leaving the phone plugged in for too long. But even if you charge your battery effectively, does your battery still lose its full-charge capacity eventually? The following will talk about how battery charges affect the life of your battery and give you suggestions for maintaining quality battery life for a longer period of time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Read More:<\/b> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/phones-battery-draining-fast\/\"><b>Why Is My Phone\u2019s Battery Draining This Fast?<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Battery Degrading <\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The more you charge your battery and the more severely you drain your battery, the faster your battery will degrade. Modern smartphones use lithium-ion batteries, and because of these materials, phone batteries typically <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.popularmechanics.com\/technology\/gadgets\/how-to\/a7432\/why-your-gadgets-batteries-degrade-over-time-6705747\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">lose around 20 percent<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of their capacity after 1,000 charging cycles. Even if you don\u2019t ever use your battery, it will still degrade. A lithium-ion battery kept in storage for one year will likely be at the same 80% capacity as the battery that underwent 1,000 charge cycles.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Ways to Preserve Batteries <\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Your battery will degrade over time, but there are steps you can take to make your battery last longer:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>Don\u2019t charge your phone battery by using your computer\u2019s USB port.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> This method of charging heats your battery up more significantly than wall charging, degrading the battery more quickly.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>Don\u2019t charge your battery overnight.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Not only will you overcharge, but the particles in your phone are more likely to meet if charged for longer, damaging the battery.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>Charge the battery before it\u2019s dead.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Regularly going dead will affect a battery\u2019s longevity.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As your phone gets older and your battery clocks more charges, it will degrade. However, if you follow these best practices for a long battery life, your battery will stay in better shape for a longer time.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As much as people use their phones these days, it\u2019s likely that you charge your phone every day \u2014 or more. But what is this doing to your phone\u2019s battery life?<\/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":[30,942,252,306,195,309,3424,2461],"class_list":["post-12459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-performance","tag-android","tag-app0","tag-app1","tag-app4","tag-app5","tag-app7","tag-charge","tag-total-charge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12459","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=12459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12459\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}