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Originally Posted by barryem
Most batteries last longer than 2 years. I still have the original battery in the Creative Zen Vision:M, a portable video player that I bought about 10 years ago and it still holds a charge very well. I also have it's successor, the Zen Vision:W, which I bought a couple years later and it's still just fine.
I have 2 or 3 other portable media players as well, all with original batteries and all are working well. There was one other that I bought about 5 years ago whose battery was beginning to be fairly useless so I had to keep it plugged in. I gave that away a few months ago to a friend with some old movies on it.
It's kind of a matter of luck. The lithium-ion batteries are rated at between 500 and 1000 full charges and that more than doubles with half charges since they seem to do better with partial charges. I won't let my devices get below about 50% and I try to remember to charge them before they get as low as 70%.
Barry
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The Nexus 7 by default runs wifi, blue tooth, GPS etc etc. Running software such as Gmail is not especially battery friendly. Unfortunately I only discovered power bar recently which means I was using far more power than need be. You can buy replacement batteries but when its minus 20 outside it does tend to be a little dry inside with a fair bit of static which is not good when you open a Nexus 7 up. I've also recently come across the idea that Lithium batteries do better when recharged early. However another concern was the number of times that the micro USB connector could be connected so I tended to run the device down lower than perhaps I should have done.
I understand that the new USB Type-C plug is more robust so hopefully in the future the number of times a connector is plugged in or disconnected will no longer be an issue.
I think its called learning be experience, and experience is what you get when you don't get what you wanted.
I think the subject is now closed, but thank you for your input.
Cheerio John