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Originally Posted by jackastor
The battery in your touch is a Li-on battery and it has no memory effect. How ever your battery is only good for a max of about 1 thousand recharges. So charging your device should be only done when its totatly dead to ensure maximun life. IF you charge your battery before its dead. You will be reducing the life by the number of times you re charge. So for example if the life of a battery is say 3 days and the recharge number is 365 times that would mean you would get about 3 years out of it if you only charged it when it was dead.. But if you charged it every day you would decrease its life to 1 year. Also every time you charge your battery you decrease the maximun amount of power in your battery by a small amount. So ver time that battery will go from 100 percent down to 50 percent maximum power. So to make it simple the best way to deal with Lion batteries or any rechargeable ones at that is to use them till they are dead then fully charge them to get the maximum life out of your battery.
This link should help you out.
http://batteryuniversity.com/learn/a..._ion_batteries
Its very comprehensive and it provides the best information for you.
regards
Jack |
You provided the link to the resources, but you somhow completely failed the reading. Charging Li-On Batteries in full cycles is actually the worst you can do for them as far as wear. (You'll get less battery opperating time before the battery fails that way.) To get best results from Li-on, they should be charged at approx 1/2 discharge. Although the difference isn't going to be drastic either way, so there's no point in getting religious about how you charge the device. When you notice the battery meter is down by by a chunk, just leave it plugged in for a bit.