Calibrating Cell Phone Lithium-ion Batteries: The Facts and How To

[johnashtonedgar]

There are a lot of misunderstandings when it comes to the calibration of Lithium-ion batteries, which is not to be confused with conditioning. Having a phone that is a “Swiss Army” knife can be taxing on your battery. You need to get the battery and phone in shape to handle running its multiple applications simultaneously. Calibration pertains to the phone and not the battery. The phone can lose the exact point of what "full" really is, so it estimates it. The estimate, especially with new batteries, becomes or is distorted on the phones charge gauge.

Calibrate the battery by completely draining it until the phone completely shuts itself off. Turn the phone on again and let it shut itself off one more time. Then charge your phone while it is off for over 8 hours. This will fully charge the battery so that when the phone is turned on, it now sees the battery as full. It is recommended to repeat this process at least one more time. You will see an increase in your battery’s charge life and longevity. Calibration of a battery can be done at any point and a maintenance calibration is recommended every month.

This will ensure that you are getting your maximum amount of smart phone goodness per charge.

JAE

[BBCasper]

Good info.

[dqmhose]

Wow, cool info, thank you very much
I'm going to do that from now on and see if its working noticeably

[maxiang]

Interesting. I've never intentionally done this with a BB battery, but my GF's CLIQ (android) lasted twice as long before shut down after doing this.

[johnashtonedgar]

An engineer for VMWare is really responsible for explaining this to me and works with most things that uses software to manage battery capacity.

JAE