Your smartphone is a minor miracle, a pocket-sized computer that can fulfill almost every whim. But none of its superpowers matter a bit if it runs out of battery life. The first rule for extending your battery life is not using up all your battery life playing Candy Crush and walking around with Wi-Fi and GPS enabled when you're not using either and really, really need your phone to last that extra hour. But aside from that, there are some basic rules for care and charging, and they're the simplest baseline for a healthy battery.

Top it off

Battery memory is a real thing, but it applies to nickel-based batteries; your trusty sidekick (literal Sidekick or otherwise) doubtlessly has a lithium-ion battery, and it needs to be treated a little differently. Specifically, it should be topped off whenever you get the chance.
Keep it cool

It's easy to worry about bad charging habits thanks to the training we've had from old rechargeable batteries, but lithium-ion batteries have a worse enemy than sub-optimal charging: Heat. Your smartphone's battery will degrade much, much faster when it's hot, regardless of whether it's being used or just sitting around doing nothing. At an average temperature of 32 degrees fahrenheit, a lithium-ion battery will lose six percent of its maximum capacity per year. At 77 degrees, that number jumps to 20 percent, and at 104 degrees it's a whopping 35. Sure, it's not exactly practical (or sane) to keep your phone in the fridge, but it's worth going out of your way to prevent long stays in hot cars and the like.
Avoid wireless charging as much as possible

Wireless charging can be incredibly convenient if your phone can do it, but it's not without its disadvantages. The inductive, wireless chargers out there today can generate a fair bit of waste heat. And while wasted energy is just a bummer in general, that heat will also toast your battery in the process. That's no no. It's a little less convenient, but standard plug-in charging is going to keep your battery in better shape, especially if you're some place warm to begin with.

Never go to zero

If you're going to be shelving any lithium-ion battery for a long time, try to leave it with at least 40 percent battery power to tide it over. Lithium-ion batteries don't hemorrhage power when their not in use, but they'll lose maybe five to ten percent of their charge each month.And when lithium-ion batteries get too low—like, literally zero percent—they get seriously unstable, and dangerous to charge. To prevent explosion-type disasters when you go to charge one that's been sitting around for a month or two, lithium-ion batteries have built-in self-destruct circuits that will disable (read: destroy) the battery for good, if it reaches rock bottom. And sure, that'll save you from a face full of battery-acid, but it'll also leave you short one battery.

Don't sweat it too much

It's easy to get protective of your battery, but it's also easy to get lazy. And that's fine, because as long as you're not a complete idiot, you'll be OK. Typically, a lithium-ion battery lasts for three to five years, and chances are you're going to want to swap out your gadgets sometime in that window anyway. The slight damage of a technically bad idea—like leaving your phone plugged in all night every night, or using fast charging when you need it—is worth the convenience.

Still, it's pretty easy to keep your battery reasonably healthy just by avoiding torture like letting your iphone, Samsung, Infinix or Tecno phone discharge from full to zero every single day, or leaving it in a hot car all the time. And the next time you make it back home with battery power to spare, you'll thank yourself for it

Culled from http://gizmodo.com/how-to-take-care-of-your-smartphone-battery-the-right-w-513217256

Let me check my battery, I am coming

Just like the guy above. I'm coming too

Thanks for the headup. But some phone's battery don't need saving o. Take for example Tecno L9 Plus high capacity battery. It won't even make u charge every time. Enough battery life to do everything and anything.

That phone's battery is a different breed sha
I'm talking about smart phones with ordinary batteries.

Behankey:
Thanks for the headup. But some phone's battery don't need saving o. Take for example Tecno L9 Plus high capacity battery. It won't even make u charge every time. Enough battery life to do everything and anything.

"Never let it get to zero" i keep this in mind all the time. 10% Is the new 0% for me.

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Behankey:
Thanks for the headup. But some phone's battery don't need saving o. Take for example Tecno L9 Plus high capacity battery. It won't even make u charge every time. Enough battery life to do everything and anything.

True, but funny enough there's a power saving feature on L9plus. Enable it and you'll be struggling to finish the juice on it.

All the ones above me just dey use style dey advertise tecno



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https://www.nairaland.com/3797509/very-neat-iphone-5c-16gb

Kol

Ok

with my 5000mAh ba3 me no send una

As long as you are in naija, it must go to 0% o.

nairaland Sha
Today you will see how to live without your phone
Tomorrow you'll see how to make you battery longer so you'll be on the phone all day
AH hayLo

I can remember the last time I charged my phone to hundred percent.

As at now my battery is 5%

Techm8:
"Never let it get to zero"
i keep this in mind all the time. 10% Is the new 0% for me.

It's like you don't know those WhatsApp Girls
They Only Reply When Ya Battery Is Below Ten Percent
Lol
Freaking Karashikas

Most android ba3 are enemy to 100%. Once it is fully charged and you unplug it. Na 99%, 98%, 97%... Na now e go con stable.
Even Iphone battery no dey stay too long for 100%.

I charge my battery every seconds, i no care whether he full or not...

Nice one... But please write in better English next time if possible. All this "pretty this..., Pretty that" American 'slangy' English eats up the info articles​ like this are trying to pass. Writing in Warri pidgin could be better.

Destinylink:
As long as you are in naija, it must go to 0% o.

As in eh


When NEPA take light for 3 days straight, even ya phone go bow

Okay. Good to know

Nice

This post is in parables

I like the current innovation in phone batteries recently tho. As of last two years you'll hardly see a battery with more than 2500mah.
But if a battery life as the op stated lasts a minimum of 5years, does it mean phones with inbuilt battery are not a good bet??

Leaving your battery plugged in ALL night has been proven to have ZERO negative impact on the life of a modern Smartphone,these devices have built-in regulatory mechanisms which kicks in once the phone reaches 100% and shut down the charge to avoid overcharge..
First the rate of charging slows down at around 90% and then trickles till full and shuts down at 100%,then only kicks in if required to top it right back up..it's a MYTH still being propagated to scare the gullible..

stjudas:
Nice one... But please write in better English next time if possible. All this "pretty this..., Pretty that" American 'slangy' English eats up the info articles​ like this are trying to pass. Writing in Warri pidgin could be better.

Lol...Some of us no go fit understand the warri slang

john1035:
All the ones above me just dey use style dey advertise tecno



Very neat iPhone 5c for sale N45k, slightly negotiable.

https://www.nairaland.com/3797509/very-neat-iphone-5c-16gb

And you're openly marketing your iPhone 5c for 45k.
Will you sell for 30k?

Destinylink:
As long as you are in naija, it must go to 0% o.

Not true,with a good Power Bank your phone will never go to 0%..AM a heavy user, over the last few years and over 10 Smartphones later I've NEVER hit 0%,unless INTENTIONAL..

shiftback:

And you're openly marketing your iPhone 5c for 45k.
Will you sell for 30k?

Boss, why you dey wyn me now

onosprince:
I charge my battery every seconds, i no care whether he full or not...

dat makes us even.