Why ah?

[elty19]

One interesting question - Why do all HP shops still tell you that for the first charge (battery), you need to charge it for 8-10 hours? These are Lithium batteries we're using in phones these days, there is no memory effect in them..... right?


Is it just a practice from a decade ago?

edwin

PS just bought my new phone and cant wait to play with it lah...

[Adrianli]

Cover their own backside lah.

[helirulz]

Show them what happens when the pump in reccommended current for 10hours non-stop

[johndyl]

actually the phone cuts off charging when it is batt is full, so even if charge for 8hrs it wont make it any "fuller"

[elty19]

key question

my question really is... if I just take out my new phone now and charge it for 10 mins and then play with it... have I really shortened it's batt life?

[edmond22]

my question really is... if I just take out my new phone now and charge it for 10 mins and then play with it... have I really shortened it's batt life?

I dun think so lar, but if you play throw to ground with it, definitely

[Touch n Go]

One interesting question - Why do all HP shops still tell you that for the first charge (battery), you need to charge it for 8-10 hours? These are Lithium batteries we're using in phones these days, there is no memory effect in them..... right?


Is it just a practice from a decade ago?

edwin

PS just bought my new phone and cant wait to play with it lah...

means break in the new batt? i think theres a practice of breaking battery by charging it fully 1st then discharge it..

[Heli_fanatic]

i think its just an old habbit ..... not like we need performance from these packs anyway .. as long they dont bloat they are fine by me

[traderghost]

means break in the new batt? i think theres a practice of breaking battery by charging it fully 1st then discharge it..

Yes, you are right. When I bought my Lenovo notebook, the manual recommended fully charging the batt, then fully discharging it and then fully charging it again. It even recommend doing this for at least 3 cycles for the batt to reach it's full potential.