Before You Install

Let's discuss your devices battery life and ways you can make it better.  This episode is covering your battery and things you can do to help maintain capacity and lifespan.  Now this does involve a few different aspects including your display, your device toggle switches like bluetooth/wifi, background apps and some other stuff too.  These topics cover both Android and iOS devices.  This 2010 article by Techrepublic is referenced to see if the five tips that were mentioned are still viable today: https://www.techrepublic.com/blog/five-apps/five-tips-for-extending-lithium-ion-battery-life/  Keep your batteries at room temperature Utilize a high capacity battery instead of spare Perform partial discharges while avoiding full ones Avoid completely draining the lithium ion batteries Have a forty percent charge when storing for long periods of time   The two articles below are summaries of studies from 2002/2003 that relate to the 20/80 rule (recharge your device at 20% battery life, up to 80%, then unplug fro