Comments on: 6 Steps To Getting The Most From Your iPhone Battery http://danielmiessler.com/blog/6-steps-to-getting-the-most-from-your-iphone-battery grep understanding Tue, 15 May 2012 12:09:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: TheMonkey http://danielmiessler.com/blog/6-steps-to-getting-the-most-from-your-iphone-battery/comment-page-1#comment-68347 TheMonkey Wed, 04 Jul 2007 10:20:26 +0000 http://dmiessler.com/archives/1438#comment-68347 <p>Not to interrupt, but LiPoly batteries, such as the iPhone's, gain nothing from being fully discharged for every time you want to charge them. Running a deep cycle every now and then is a good idea to calibrate the charge prediction, but after that, you're just draining your battery for no reason.</p> <p>LiPoly/LiIon batteries have no memory effect (NiCd rechargables have that problem). In fact, if you believe the manufacturers, LiPoly lifetime measured in charge cycles is not how often you start charging the battery, but how much energy you charge back into it. EG, if your battery's life is rated at 100 cycles, you can charge it 100x from completely drained to completely full, or 1000x from 90% to 100%. YMMV, but that's the gist of it.</p> Not to interrupt, but LiPoly batteries, such as the iPhone’s, gain nothing from being fully discharged for every time you want to charge them. Running a deep cycle every now and then is a good idea to calibrate the charge prediction, but after that, you’re just draining your battery for no reason.

LiPoly/LiIon batteries have no memory effect (NiCd rechargables have that problem). In fact, if you believe the manufacturers, LiPoly lifetime measured in charge cycles is not how often you start charging the battery, but how much energy you charge back into it. EG, if your battery’s life is rated at 100 cycles, you can charge it 100x from completely drained to completely full, or 1000x from 90% to 100%. YMMV, but that’s the gist of it.

]]> By: TheMonkey http://danielmiessler.com/blog/6-steps-to-getting-the-most-from-your-iphone-battery/comment-page-1#comment-248316 TheMonkey Wed, 04 Jul 2007 10:20:00 +0000 http://dmiessler.com/archives/1438#comment-248316 <p>Not to interrupt, but LiPoly batteries, such as the iPhone's, gain nothing from being fully discharged for every time you want to charge them. Running a deep cycle every now and then is a good idea to calibrate the charge prediction, but after that, you're just draining your battery for no reason.</p> <p>LiPoly/LiIon batteries have no memory effect (NiCd rechargables have that problem). In fact, if you believe the manufacturers, LiPoly lifetime measured in charge cycles is not how often you start charging the battery, but how much energy you charge back into it. EG, if your battery's life is rated at 100 cycles, you can charge it 100x from completely drained to completely full, or 1000x from 90% to 100%. YMMV, but that's the gist of it.</p> Not to interrupt, but LiPoly batteries, such as the iPhone’s, gain nothing from being fully discharged for every time you want to charge them. Running a deep cycle every now and then is a good idea to calibrate the charge prediction, but after that, you’re just draining your battery for no reason.

LiPoly/LiIon batteries have no memory effect (NiCd rechargables have that problem). In fact, if you believe the manufacturers, LiPoly lifetime measured in charge cycles is not how often you start charging the battery, but how much energy you charge back into it. EG, if your battery’s life is rated at 100 cycles, you can charge it 100x from completely drained to completely full, or 1000x from 90% to 100%. YMMV, but that’s the gist of it.

]]> By: How To Condition Your iPhone Battery - Everything iPhone http://danielmiessler.com/blog/6-steps-to-getting-the-most-from-your-iphone-battery/comment-page-1#comment-68335 How To Condition Your iPhone Battery - Everything iPhone Wed, 04 Jul 2007 09:23:21 +0000 http://dmiessler.com/archives/1438#comment-68335 <p>[...] Battery I just finished this short piece on how to get the most out of your iPhone battery. Link: How To Condition Your iPhone Battery Cheers, -Daniel __________________ Daniel Miessler E: daniel@dmiessler.com W: [...]</p> [...] Battery I just finished this short piece on how to get the most out of your iPhone battery. Link: How To Condition Your iPhone Battery Cheers, -Daniel __________________ Daniel Miessler E: daniel@dmiessler.com W: [...]

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