Battery cycles

[EMENCII]

Hello everyone,

in this site I found that charging the phone's battery often should increase its number of cycles, therefore its life. It says that discharging it from 100% to 0% makes 250-300 cycles possible, while a discharge of 10% makes 4000 cyles possible. Isn't that just because 4000*10 = 400*100 ? Isn't that just the same thing? How is it better then? It's faster to discharge a battery of 10% rather than 100%, aren't those 4000 cycle going to last as long as the 300 made with a discharge of 100%?

Thanks for your attention,

EMENCII

[mikat]

9 minutes ago, EMENCII said:

Hello everyone,

in this site I found that charging the phone's battery often should increase its number of cycles, therefore its life. It says that discharging it from 100% to 0% makes 250-300 cycles possible, while a discharge of 10% makes 4000 cyles possible. Isn't that just because 4000*10 = 400*100 ? Isn't that just the same thing? How is it better then? It's faster to discharge a battery of 10% rather than 100%, aren't those 4000 cycle going to last as long as the 300 made with a discharge of 100%?

Thanks for your attention,

EMENCII

cycles just means how many times it has been charged and drained, so more cycles mean the battery has probably degraded more

my macbook has 1300 cycles, and it has 60% of its original capacity left

[EMENCII]

4 minutes ago, mikat said:

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I know, which means that charging it more frequently degrades it faster. But charging and discharging it of a smaller amount of the capacity degrades it slower. So which is it?

[mikat]

Just now, EMENCII said:

I know, which means that charging it more frequently degrades it faster. But charging and discharging it of a smaller amount of the capacity degrades it slower. So which is it?

probably depends on the battery

[Zodiark1593]

Lithium batteries degrade more rapidly from full cycles than from half-cycles to the point where you should gain a little more than 2x longevity. However, keeping the battery in a high level of charge for long periods of time also degrades them.

[EMENCII]

6 minutes ago, Zodiark1593 said:

Lithium batteries degrade more rapidly from full cycles than from half-cycles to the point where you should gain a little more than 2x longevity. However, keeping the battery in a high level of charge for long periods of time also degrades them.

So if making a full cycle takes 24h and making half cycle takes 12h I should anyway make half cycles? Their number would be double the full ones'