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Old Nov 3, 2019, 6:23 pm
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Toshbaf
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Extending long term battery life in a smartphone

I've come to the conclusion that today's smartphones have their own type of terminal cancer. They will die in 3 years, maybe 4 years if you're lucky. The batteries are increasing not replaceable. You cannot snap open the back and put a new battery in. Maybe some models can be sent to the repair shop to have it done.

How to extend the life of the smartphone?

1. Do not use the smartphone for airline movies. Listen up AAmerican AAirlines and your plans to remove seat back displays. If necessary, get a tablet but note that Amazon Fire may have an impossible time to get Gogo or anything in Google Play to download.

2. Charge the phone when at 12-20% only and charge it to 80-95% only.

3. Try to leave the phone undisturbed when charging so that you don't put stress on the charger plug into the phone (unless you have wireless charging). I had a previous phone that had to be put to rest because the plug was loose and would not recharge unless you held pressure at a certain angle.

4. Maybe use a camera more instead of the camera on the phone?

Any other ideas?

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