Yes you can fix the problem.


 

There are number of ways where you can solve it i.e

  1. Look for the usb cable is supporting or not . Even check whether Charger is of same watt as per requirement of mobile phone.
  2. It may due to software problem.
  3. It may due to power button has went inside.
  4. It may due to some application is draining your battery.
  5. It may due to your phone gets too heated.

Check out all those problems you will get to know why the battery is not charging.

In my case I usually switch off the phone for longer period of time. When it’s get cool down I start charging again. The problem gets solved.

Does charging your phone overnight ruin the battery? Is it bad to charge your phone overnight?

Not at all.

This is old school thinking. Thinking from back in the days where you had Ni-cad batteries in phones and there was not the circuitry to look after the charging. Back then you did have to be careful.

However, these days things are very different. To start with Nickel–iron and Lithium polymer are way less affected by your charging habits. On top of this charging is monitored by the charging circuitry in the device. When charging reaches 100% your phone simply turns off the charger and does not draw anymore power in. Yes, it may still physically be plugged in to the wall with the switch switch turned on but it is not charing at this point. At this point all the charging circuitry is doing is keeping the battery at 100%.

If the above was not enough iPhones and probably other brands as well learn your charging habits and plan for your phone to be fully charged at a certain time. Say you wake up at 6am every morning to go to work your iPhone and probably others as well will slow the charger down so that it does not reach 100% before 6am and therefore does not sit on the charger at 100% for hours. Everything these days in monitored and looked after. There is no need to worry because you simply can’t ruin your battery by leaving your phone plugged in. Some will say you should only charge to 80% but to be honest there is no harm in charing to 100%.

So you can simply relax about the above. What you do need to do to get the best out of your battery is never let it fall below 20% before charging it and iPhones indicate this by the battery symbol turning red on the screen along with a message telling you it is time to put your phone on its charger. This is the end that is hard on your battery, letting it fall below 20% and use slow chargers not fast chargers. Yes, your phone maybe designed for a faster charger, so is mine but fast charging causes more heat and heat is very hard on batteries. Slow charing even if a battery is designed for fast charging is always much more kind on the battery.

Do what I do. Plug your phone in overnight on a slow charger. Make sure it is not covered by anything like blankets etc and it can get ventilation so any heat can escape as one you don’t want a fire and two you want your battery to last as long as it can. Take it off charge in the morning. As soon as my iPhone hits 20% on the charger it goes, I charge to 100% percent and I got six years out of my iPhone 6 Plus battery.

So don’t stress about overcharging because you simply can’t. That is assuming your charger and the charging circuity is all working correctly of course.

Is frequent charging of smartphones harmful to the battery? Why?

See, here’s all you need to know about charging present day batteries be it in your laptop or smartphone or camera.

  • Almost every device these days has the system to cut out power supply to charge the batteries as soon as they hit 100%, so it’s not like your battery will get overcharged or explode by this in ideal conditions.
  • Every battery has a fixed no. of charge cycles after which it becomes more or less uncapable of powering your device. Your battery enters a new cycle when you charge it up to 100% or when it gets almost all drained up.
  • Technically you should try to charge your battery in a way that it doesn’t enter a new cycle every day. Eg:- Try to charge when it hits 15%, unplug at 85%. Doing this will avoid the need to replace the battery for a longer period of time. (please read till the end)
  • Now say you did not let your battery enter a new cycle for a whole week somehow. At the end of the week, your battery will take much less time to drain a certain no. of %s because it’s in a week old charge cycle. As soon as you charge it full to enter a new charge cycle, the backup will increase significantly.

So that was all the tech there is.

Now, note this, there isn’t exactly a 100% accurate tech/science to prove/approve the above theories and there is actually a lot of controversies around it. But according to the most popular believes, here’s how you should charge your device for maximum battery life in the long run :-

Only let your battery enter a new charge cycle once or maximum twice a week depending on the battery’s health and capacity which effect how long can you handle a old charge cycle. And then again every week (or twice weekly maybe) leave your phone overnight to charge and let the battery enter a new charge cycle.

Okay, so now before you start bossing people around you to charge their devices right, or start hyperventilating on how bad you’ve been to your dearest device, let me remind you again, There is a a LOT of controversies and theories around this. It is not always possible or practical to follow all the instructions very strictly and I personally believe, despite the theories, it doesn’t help prolong the battery life all that much and in today’s ever developing world, more probably than not, your device will get outdated much before you have to replace the batteries on it.

I am very much into tech so I know all this. But since I am a student too and don’t have the time to tend to my devices that very much, I personally let my Honor 9 lite charge overnight everyday, and it has been managing to get me through the day for almost a year now. Likewise with my ipad or laptop, I just plug it in charging and take them out when I need them, not worrying on whether or not they enter a new charge cycle. This paragraph was just to clarify that even if you totally debunk the theories, your life will go on just fine.

Hope this was helpful, thanks !