I've found that my lap top and cell phone batteries on an occasion might loose the ability to retain a charge, but if I let them die out for a few days they regain the ability and will charge properly. When I ask for instance a cell phone provider or a person at CompUSA I get a bizzare and lame excuse about batteries "forgetting". What's the actual technical explanation for this?
2007-07-09 11:49:32 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Consumer Electronics ➔ Other - Electronics
I just want the technical explanation for this people.
2007-07-09 12:33:03 · update #1
cell phone and laptop batteries are NiMH or Lithium. they have little to no memory effect. when in the discharge cycle you recharge them is not an issue as it was with NiCAD.
They do go bad with the result being poor capacity.
Don't store them with a full charge.
totally discharge them periodically.
replace when time between charges gets to short for you.
2007-07-09 14:40:42 · answer #1 · answered by Bill R 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Are they new batteries? Because every time you charge a battery, it sucks a little bit of life out of that battery. Not so much in laptops, but in cell phones definitely. That's why you should only charge your cell phone battery when it's down to one bar, and only charge it until it's full and no more.
2007-07-09 11:59:38 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
That type battery has what's called a memory effect. It "remembers" that it doesn't run very long between charges. Letting it run down supposedly breaks that chain and it holds longer charges again.
I do not know if this is true...it's just the story that the techies are talking about.
2007-07-09 13:17:48 · answer #3 · answered by Bob Little 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I had about the same experience a while ago, and when I took my phone in to see if it needed to be fixed, they said all I needed to do was get a new charger and it should work and charge properly, and it did.
2007-07-09 11:59:49 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
verify instruction manual/person instruction manual, with out commonly used type, confusing to declare, could desire to declare in packaging instruction manual that got here with gadget, ought to be something like pass away to totally fee 24 hrs, in the previous use, thats in trouble-free terms a guestimate, ..
2016-11-08 20:42:27 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
your too cheap to buy a new one
2007-07-09 12:18:06 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋