In this article, you will know how long you are expected to charge your brand new mobile phone before the first usage.
There is this popular saying that you have to charge your new phone up to 6 – 8 hours before using it.
Don’t charge a new phone for 8 hours
I don’t think you would believe that. Are they saying that even if my phone gets filled up, I should still be charging it?
Let me break it down here.
Charge your new phone for however long you wish to; you can even start using it at whatever battery level that came with it. There is no adverse effect of not doing a full charge on your new phone battery.
Phone battery manufacturers recommended way back as at the time when NiMH batteries were in use. These batteries had specific requirements when it came to charging and discharging.
Using the NiMH batteries you have to give it several hours of charge, just as they said! 6 hours to 8 hours.
But those requirements do not apply to Lithium-ion batteries, also known as Li-ion batteries, which are the current battery technology.
There are lots of misconceptions about batteries of different chemistry, as well as battery safety.
However, with the new Lithium-ion batteries aka Li-ion batteries, all they need for charging several hours has been negated.
With Li-ion batteries, you can start even using the device battery right away, immediately after unboxing it.
Even though if the cells are partially charged, or even as low as 40%. Feel free to use it, as it does not affect the battery. But just don’t let it get so low and trip off by itself.
When a phone battery gets very low, let about 5%, if you are not close to a power source, then switch it off. If trips off by itself – it may not be healthy for the phone.
All Li-ion cells go through a formation stage immediately after production, to make sure the electrodes are working Perfectly by doing a full charge on them.
It is also to “activate” all of the chemical components in that battery to be ready. As a result of this, the chemicals are all primed to start operating without any further preparation.
This means that there are no adverse effects of not giving the new phone battery a full charge.
Conclusion
We do not need to keep charging our new device battery for obscene amounts of time just for it to last us a day. As long as the phone or whatever device has a Lithium-ion (Li-ion) battery, we are good to go.
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