Keeping your gadgets charged is easy in the short term. Just keep an eye on their battery level and plug them into the wall when it gets low. But keeping your gadgets’ batteries healthy in the long run is a much more complicated proposition. The lithium-ion batteries we have in virtually all of our gadgets are chemically destined to degrade over time, holding less charge than they used to, and blowing through what little they have faster then before. It’s impossible to stop this process, but it is possible to slow it. In this age of everything being rechargeable, it is very easy to spot bad charging behaviors. Everyone thinks rechargeable batteries are rather invincible and straight-forward; as long as the phone is charged, everything is all right. What is easy to overlook, Android batteries are not magic, and not all phone charges are created equal. Use the to
battery saver feature in
dfndr performance to monitor your phone’s charging process:
