8 Smartphone Mistakes To AVOID!

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8 Smartphone Mistakes To AVOID!

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[PhoneBuff]

Waiting on our iPhone XS to come in, #phonebuffstyle coverage coming soon!

[bear]

Number 1 mistake: looking in YouTube comments for advice.

[patientestant]

0:16 #1 Closing your apps is bad.
0:56 #2 Charging overnight or draining it too low. Stay between 20-80%
1:58 #3 Using same password for all apps is bad
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3:04 #4 social media camera apps capture worse photos.
3:58 #5 Handing unlocked phone to strangers is risky. Lock the phone and open only the camera app instead.
4:36 #6 Clean your phone with wet microfiber towel.
5:08 #7 Download offline apps
5:42 #8 Don't leave your phone on tables in front of you.

[brianmsahin]

All the tips are good except for the battery life tips. I'm an engineer and I manufactured lithium ion batteries for more than 10 years. 1. Batteries should be charged to 100% every time. Charging to 80% means more charging cycles which will wear down the battery FASTER. 2. Leaving a phone on charge overnight will NOT produce any heat after reaching 100%. The charger will trickle charge as necessary to top it up and there will be no additional heating, it will recharge for less than a minute or two. 3. There is absolutely nothing wrong with letting it go to 5% or less. In fact it primes the battery to ensure all electrolytes remain active. Unused battery capacity results in it becoming permanently inactive. Leave a battery sitting uncharged for a year and you'll see the extreme of what I mean. 4. Every battery has a finite number of charge cycles before capacity drops and eventually needs replacement. Full charges from as close to zero to 100% will give you a longer battery life due to less charging cycles. 5. The most important point. Reviewers are NOT engineers or technically qualified. They read random tips propagated on the web, then others take it up and misinformation becomes fact. Don't believe it.

[shtechvn]

Damn... That title made me click on this video so fast

[tylerdurden]

4:38 "NOT CLEANING PHONE YOUR PHONE!" Mistake #1: Not proof-reading your text slides for this video ;)

[Devo_gx]

I just don't understand that "charge between 20-80%" rule to save wear and tear on your battery. The 40% you're losing every charge cycle is far more than the wear you'll see in a year or two if you're charging to 100% or leaving it on charge overnight.

[patientestant]

The last tip is proving to be true for me. I broke my phone a week ago and I have noticed some subtle benefits. I feel a less distracted. I have more time and I'm less rushed, because I am not using my phone 1, 2 or more hours a day. When I get my new phone I am not going to keep it on my person as much.

[nomadicmicmac]

Great video. Would a wireless charger make any difference extending the life of the battery compacity over a long period of time?

[rubcub]

Damn I didn't know like 30% of these now I know what not to do 💀💀

[Jasondranoff]

That's a really good point about locking the phone and launching the camera while locked.. Very smart I've done that before and I'm a super careful person. Cheers!

[Uncle_Drew]

The pixel 2 xl still looks amazing today. Hope they had stayed the same with the current pixel phones.

[MrTimdtoolman]

I'm going to download some maps on my iPad Mini I installed in my truck right now, great tip.

[TacEsk]

iPhone Xr for $750 has the same screen as an iPhone 4 did 8 years ago

[javianbrown]

As for the plugging your phone in overnight, when your device is at 100% for the most part it will try to stop charging and instead use the power being supplied from the charger instead of discharging the battery. The power being supplied is usually more than the amount required to keep the device in standby however so it will release the extra energy as heat (the heat thing you did mention though)

[sunside]

actually i'm not entirely sure about the charging percentage by OP. nowadays the fast chargers pump in max current from anywhere below 50 percent up to 50 percent, and slow it down up to 100 percent with gradually fading out towards 100 percent. imo it might be better to never let your phone drop below 50 percent and then charge it fully when using fast charger if we'd assume lower heat in battery is better...

[zrimec]

another mistake is me watching the whole video

[dnhn.design]

I have a weird OCD that makes me uuncomfortable when an app is running in bg

[jayb]

Some people’s ocd about battery health is ridiculous. So to maintain the health of your battery it shouldn’t be allowed to fall below 20 nor should it charge above 80? So the best way to protect the 100% capacity of the battery is to only allow yourself access to 60% of it? Then what’s the point?

[lars]

Good video, but fully charging/emptying your phone battery is no problem. Phones use lithium-polymer batteries, which have no memory effect. They are not vulnerable for user charging behavior. They DO have a maximum amount of charge cycles, so charging over night too much will not positively benefit battery life.

The reason phone batteries usually die after 2/3 years is the way they're engineered. The chemical-process inside the batteries is negatively effected by oxygen. Oxygen weakens the acid bonds responsible for transferring energy from A to B. Because oxygen always finds a way inside a battery, it's performance degrades over time. This is accepted because phone batteries are not produced by industrial standards.