These days, people need 4 things to survive:
food, water, air, and phone charging. And YouTube – oh, that’s five. Anyway, we
want our phones to charge as fast as possible, even if it means messing up our little digital
friends! Well, there’s a right way to charge your gadgets fast so they serve you longer
– and there’s some wrong ways! Avoid the myths and try these tips! 1. The quickest way to juice up is to turn
the phone off. The battery won't spend any energy at all and will charge faster. 2. The phone also charges faster in Airplane
Mode because it disconnects all communication channels. That way, the battery isn’t juggling
the task of sending and receiving signals while it’s getting some much-needed refreshment. 3. If you can’t go without Internet while
you’re phone’s charging, at least try to stick to Wi-Fi. It’s more energy-efficient
than using your mobile network. 4. Turn off the sound so the charge lasts
longer, and don't forget the vibration! It’s a real energy waster. 5. The phone will charge much quicker if you
do it through an outlet. Of course, you can use USB to charge it through the computer
and car, but you’ll have to wait longer. 6. Use an original charger from the manufacturer.
It perfectly matches the characteristics of your particular phone. Cheaper and unknown
charging devices can ruin the battery. There have even been cases when batteries caught
fire because of a poor-quality charger! 7. If you head out and don't take your laptop
with you to a cafe, on a trip, or to work, it’s best if you remove the battery. That
way, it’s not sitting there all alone using power. Put it back in when you take your computer
with you somewhere. 8. Still, it's not good to constantly keep
the battery without work, so try to discharge and charge it at least once a week. Unless
you’re a MacBook user – then you don’t have to. 9. The windowsill next to your bed or chair
might seem like a convenient place to lay your charging phone, but don’t do it. Even
if it’s not charging, keep your phone out of direct sunlight or frost. The battery drains
faster at these temperatures. Room temperature is best. 10. Same goes for your laptop. In winter,
when you come home packing your computer bag in with you, let the laptop warm up a bit
in the room before you use it. Don't let it overheat or freeze either. 11. On average, a phone charges up fully after
1½ to 3 hours. But there is a way to charge it up to 79% in about 15-30 minutes – that
would be a quick charge feature. The battery in any phone is designed to receive a certain
current strength, and blocks any excess flow of energy. But not with fast charging. Your
phone quickly goes up to 79%, but then this function stops, and the amperage goes in limited
mode again. This is done intentionally to not damage the battery. 12. If you have an iPad, then use its charging
adapter if you want to charge your iPhone faster. Or you can find a special fast-charging
adapter for Apple Phones. 13. Your phone feels really hot and stuffy
in a case, so remove it when it’s juicing up. The battery heats up during the charge.
It's better for this heat to freely escape through the phone body, and not accumulate
inside the case. 14. Wireless chargers aren’t nearly as effective
as conventional ones when it comes to speed. Yes, it's convenient and looks nice without
a bunch of cords hanging all over the place. But if you need to charge your phone quickly,
then wireless charging is a no-go. 15. Always work with your laptop on a flat
surface. Heat should flow out of it evenly and freely. When you put it on your lap or
lay it on a bed or pillow, it seriously overheats and ruins the battery. 16. There are so many tips on the Internet
about how to charge your phone “in just 10 seconds!” using anything from aluminum
foil to lemons! Manufacturers don’t recommend any of these half-baked ideas. Don’t fall
for the online hype – you could end up doing permanent damage to the battery and phone! 17. If you have an older phone, unplug it
when the battery’s fully charged. Charging a charged phone keeps the battery under stress.
It's like with muscles – they should rest after an intense workout. Without that, the
battery capacity will decrease noticeably after a year of such excessive overload, and
the phone will start losing juice faster. 18. If you have a newer phone, it’s not
such a big worry. The latest models have a built-in feature that blocks the charging
as soon as the battery’s at 100%. 19. Charge the phone as often as possible,
but little by little. If you charge it to 100% and use the gadget until it's completely
drained, then the battery will withstand about 500-700 recharge cycles. If you let it go
down to 50% and plug it in for a short time, let it run down a bit again, and so on – your
battery will withstand about 1,000 cycles. This comes to about 3 years if you charge
the phone every day. The ideal level is always keeping the phone between 40 and 80%. 20. Still, you should “train” your battery
capacity once a month. You do that by letting it run down to 0% and then fully charging
it up to 100. This “exercise” will help calibrate the mechanisms that are responsible
for the correct display charge level. But, again, don't do this often because it can
shorten your battery’s lifespan. 21. Monitor the status of your battery. You
can download apps for Android and iPhone that show you how worn out your battery is and
what its peak performance stands at. The app will notify you when the time to change the
battery comes. Replace the battery on any of your devices at least once every 3-4 years.
I know it can be pricey, but it’s worth it. 22. Don't leave a laptop connected to the
network with a 100% charge when you aren't working with it. And don’t charge it to
100% every single time. Like with phones, keeping the battery between 40 and 80% is
ideal. 23. There’s a myth that you shouldn’t
use your phone while it’s charging. If someone has problems with this, it most likely comes
down to a faulty (or non-original) charger. With the manufacturer-approved charger, everything
will be fine. Just don’t overload the phone while it’s plugged in by playing heavy games,
for instance. Scrolling your social media, answering emails, and watching videos – perfectly
fine during charging. 24. Another common misconception is that you
should close all background apps to save power. But modern phones are designed so that background
apps don’t waste power. That, and when you launch a closed app, it drains much more energy
than launching an app from the background. 25. For your laptop, it’s a little different.
You should download apps that speed it up by closing useless background tasks and deleting
unnecessary cache files. Just make sure you find a good-quality trustworthy program. Sorry,
but the best ones aren’t free! 26. If your phone has an AMOLED or OLED-type
screen, you can save battery power significantly. Just set a very black picture as the wallpaper.
This display consists of Organic Light-Emitting Diode. Sounds fancy, but it basically emits
light when current passes through it. Black doesn’t let light come through (except where
your icons are, of course), so the screen won’t light up and waste so much battery! 27. If you go outside, but can't leave your
laptop, then you can use solar battery charging. The downside is that the speed of your charge
will depend on the weather. The brighter the sun, the faster the charge. Just don't leave
the laptop directly in the sun. Cover it, or lay it under a tree in the shade. If it's
hot even in the shade, then you can use a cooling pad. Ah, doing work, outside, under a tree, in
the shade, with a gentle breeze and a glass of lemonade. Can you picture that? Hmmm. And
that, my friend, is just how I did today’s voiceover. (You didn’t hear that plane fly
over did you? Ah, good!) Hey, if you learned something new today, then
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