How to know if your battery is on it's way out on cell phones!

Batteries won’t last!

I know this all to well.   With all my phones from the Lg Optimus F3 to my Kyocera Risa.  Every phone I have had, I get to know when the battery should just be replaced.   I will talk about my experiences and hopefully it will help you when it comes time to replace that battery.

Nothing I say should constitute you going out and buying a battery but it will at least help you know if you might need to.   It however is up to you when and if you get a replacement battery.

Shorter charge cycles!

This one is the first sign the battery, which has circuits that close off to prevent the battery from fully charging.  These circuits help keep the battery from exploding or leaking and causing serious damage to you or the phone.  It can show itself in several ways.   You might find that you have to charge your phone up more frequently or that it says you have a full battery one hour ago and now it is down to half or almost empty.   

Phone gets warm to touch while charging!

It isn’t uncommon that from time to time when your charging your phone the phone may get slightly warm due to the charging of the batteries but it gets warmer than usual.   This is caused by the phone trying to force charge the battery to charge a cell that looks to be almost dead and it is trying to keep it alive.

Bulges on cell battery!

It isn’t always the case but if you examine your battery of your phone.   I saw this with my HTC inspire 4g Phone, where the battery was getting a slight bulge and shorter charge and discharge cycles were happening.  

Cell Phone Apps

Although I will remind you that even getting a new battery might not be cause of your phone not keeping charge.   Some android phones use more battery life due to apps or other such widgets that are constantly be used on the phone.   These tend to help reduce the life of your battery and it will not help if you battery isn’t dead or on it’s way out.  You may find it helps for the small time but you will be back at where you left off.   Before you consider buying a new battery, consider looking into which apps you might not need and remove them.   This will greatly increase your battery life and your experiences.

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Reviewing RavPower Dynamo-On-the-Go 10400mAh External Backup Battery Pack!

      

RAVPower — Flashlight   USB Car Charger(2 Port)  And More!

Reviewing the RavPower!

I must get this out in the open,  I was given the chance to review the RavPower Dynamo-On-the-Go 10400mAh External Backup Battery Pack.  The kind folks over at the marketing department, contacted me and asked for me to review their product.  Other than the unit is self, the Ravpower people did not pay me to say these things.   I said I would love to review it, being that I have a Phone that constantly needs to be charged and my tablet.   I must say this has been a life saver for me, when I forgot to charge my phone over night one night during the week.  

My thoughts

After having this over a week, I will say that it is heaver than I thought but it does come with 4 Samsung 2600mAh(Milli-Amp-hours), and thus can be the best portable power solutions including my Kyocera Rise from Virgin Mobile.   Which can be a very useful to keep my phone working on the run!   

It came with a White wall usb charger, My thoughts are just pitch it in the trash and us another usb charger other than that one.   When I used that wall charger, it got REALLY hot.   It definitely wasn’t hot enough to catch fire but I was concerned so I used another wall charger to charge the Ravpower and The charger itself did not get so hot with unlike the white usb charger.  

The Unit itself is very user friendly with that power meter built into the device so I can keep track of when I need to recharge the portable power battery pack and I really haven’t had to charge it every night.   I have been only using it for small stuff such as my phone or my portable speaker, which can be useful walking around!

Iit comes with a carrying pouch black holder and two USB to Micr usb cords which can be very useful for when you don’t have one.   The holder part of this set is very useful to keep your Portable power pack safe and secure.  

I would recommend this product to anyone who has phones that constantly need recharging or those who might need an extra power for Ipads, and Iphones for long trips.   I can’t see this being anything other than useful for me and it has quite a few possibility when it comes to keep things charged on the go or when I am out and about.   

Go check it out yourself, I give this a 4 out of five and the only reason not a five is the wall charger issue.   Which is very good!

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