Help Battery drainage

[hultgrrr]

Hi there folks!

So I've read over at Lifehacker (since I can't post link you can search "lifehacker + battery" at Google and the first link should be the article I've read) that you should discharge your Nexus 5 once a month to keep it healthy and optimized.

So my question isn't about why, that is already answered in the article, it is how I should do it. Is it okay to use a battery drainage app for discharging it once a month or should it be discharged by my natural behavior (i.e. I shouldn't don't use an battery drainage app)? If it's okay to use an app, does anyone have any recommendations about a specific app? I've tried one app that discharged about a 1% per minute. Is that reasonably fast or should I try other ones which will do the trick faster?

Since the reason for doing this is for optimizing the phones estimation of remaining battery power I would guess that using a battery draining app creates a skew vision of the battery power for the internal systems of the phone.

 

[Rxpert83]

Welcome to the forums!

I've read that article as well (for the record its this one, also note - you can post links beginning with your second post, so you should be good to go now )

I'd be wary of using a battery draining app. You'll want to avoid excessive heat, and having an app run down your battery as fast as possible is probably going to do just that.

I'd recommend letting it discharge with normal use if you choose to do it.

However, the following part of that article is what I really took away from it

That said, you don't need to lie awake at night worrying about whether your battery's charging. Don't sacrifice practicality just to keep your battery alive—if you're in a situation where you don't have a charger, it's okay to discharge it to 0%, or charge it up to 100% if you want to do so for a long plane ride. Remember that your battery is going to die in a few years, no matter what you do—even if you just let it sit on a shelf.

With "non-removable" batteries its a little more worrisome than ones you can easily swap out, but there are replacement batteries out there if yours dies:linky

If I notice my battery is acting weird, I'll fully charge it up and let it fully discharge to reset the memory its talking about in that article, but I don't do it at any set schedule.