[schmaltzy]

I'm looking for some advice on cell phone battery charging. I recently purchased the new Motorola Droid and I love it. I have medium use on it during the day so when I go to bed I'm at about 40%-50% battery life. For this reason I plug it in every night.

My previous phone was the LG Dare. Granted it wasn't a smart/app phone or had the capabilities of my Droid, I could get by on that charging it once every week.

With my Dare, I had looked up battery tips and found many good ideas: Never talk on your phone while it is plugged it, never let the battery completely run out, always try to let it charge up fully before using it, etc. I have come to believe in these methods because the original battery my Dare came with lasted me a little over 1 1/2 years! The phone I had before my Dare was much worse, I had to get a new battery for that phone every 10-12 months.

MY QUESTION IS - Are there any battery tips for the Droid to help make the battery last as long (longevity) as possible?

I'm not talking about making it a full week before charging. I am fine with charging it every night as long as that won't hurt the battery. My brother has a blackberry and said he has to charge his every 1-2 days, sometimes more with heavy use.

Thanks for any and all help!!!

[smax013]

schmaltzy, on 10 November 2009 - 12:56 PM, said:

I'm looking for some advice on cell phone battery charging. I recently purchased the new Motorola Droid and I love it. I have medium use on it during the day so when I go to bed I'm at about 40%-50% battery life. For this reason I plug it in every night.

My previous phone was the LG Dare. Granted it wasn't a smart/app phone or had the capabilities of my Droid, I could get by on that charging it once every week.

With my Dare, I had looked up battery tips and found many good ideas: Never talk on your phone while it is plugged it, never let the battery completely run out, always try to let it charge up fully before using it, etc. I have come to believe in these methods because the original battery my Dare came with lasted me a little over 1 1/2 years! The phone I had before my Dare was much worse, I had to get a new battery for that phone every 10-12 months.

MY QUESTION IS - Are there any battery tips for the Droid to help make the battery last as long (longevity) as possible?

I'm not talking about making it a full week before charging. I am fine with charging it every night as long as that won't hurt the battery. My brother has a blackberry and said he has to charge his every 1-2 days, sometimes more with heavy use.

Thanks for any and all help!!!

Generally, today's batteries there is not a lot of "hand holding" to do with them. With older batteries, they could develop a "memory" if you tended to use them a bit and then recharge them. Today's rechargeable batteries do not tend to have "memories".

Some people will tend to recommend that you do fully discharge it every once and while, but that is not "universal".

Personally, for my Palm Treo 755p, I routinely plug it in when I get home and leave it plugged in while at home. It used to be that this mean plugging it in each night, but since I now work from home, it means I tend to have it plugged in quite a bit now. It still has its original battery that is going on 2.5 years.

Thus, I would suggest you should be fine plugging it in each night for charging and then using it during the day. You likely should be fine with that. And I see zero reason why you should avoid using your phone while it is plugged into the charger.