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Originally posted by PHPaul:
It's not that I begrudge the fraction of a cent recharging the battery would cost, it's that I've been bitched at about turning stuff off since I was old enough to reach the light switch.

After 60-odd years, hard habit to break.

"Do not disturb" is a good idea, I'll do that. I'll also have to get into the habit of hooking up the USB cable in the morning to recharge it.

By that logic, do you turn off the refrigerator when you go to sleep and then turn it back on when you wake up??? Some things are meant to be left on 24/7.

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Originally posted by Balzé Halzé:

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Originally posted by Gustofer:

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Originally posted by Balzé Halzé:
I don't like leaving it plugged into a charger all night because that's not good for the battery, and my phone is now close to three years old so I'm trying to save whatever capacity its battery has left.

So that's why I turn it off. I also only charge my phone to 80-85% (much better for the life of the battery) so leaving it plugged in every night doesn't work for me.

http://www.independent.co.uk/l...attery-10509096.html

Mine is plugged in every night and several year old phones have batteries that are perfectly fine.

Charging your phone to 100% every time as opposed to 80% will indeed wear down a battery faster over time. That's just a fact. It won't "destroy" it, it lessens the battery's capacity.

That's not true, charging it to full capacity is fine for it. Running it down to almost no capacity is what shortens the life. The more a battery is charged, the higher the voltage, and the lower amount of amps a process or task takes. When the battery is near dead, the voltage is much lower, causing the same process or task to use a lot more amps or watts and to create a lot more heat in the cells shortening it's life span by creating sulfate on the plates.

In addition to the other very practical reasons for leaving your smartphone on at night, what about this, home defense experts?
Why would you want to wake in the middle of the night with noises in the house, landline cut, and try to call 911 with a phone turned off or discharged?

Shees.

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Originally posted by V-Tail:

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Originally posted by PHPaul:
I realize I could just leave the phone on, but that just rubs my cheap ass the wrong way.

I am cheap too. Maybe I'm not braining well this morning, but what do you save by turning the phone off at night, other than a few cents to re-charge the battery?

Also -- we are not "cheap." We are "thrifty."

The guy that works at a local cell phone repair place told me that you should shut your cell phone off once or twice a month to let it "rest".

I dip mine in a cup of coffee when it seems tired

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Originally posted by Bulldog7972:

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Originally posted by V-Tail:

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Originally posted by PHPaul:
I realize I could just leave the phone on, but that just rubs my cheap ass the wrong way.

I am cheap too. Maybe I'm not braining well this morning, but what do you save by turning the phone off at night, other than a few cents to re-charge the battery?

Also -- we are not "cheap." We are "thrifty."

The guy that works at a local cell phone repair place told me that you should shut your cell phone off once or twice a month to let it "rest".

It would be more accurate to say that turning it off once or twice a month forces a hard reset, cleaning up any memory leaks or other detritus from poorly written apps. It is much like rebooting a windows computer periodically (or an Apple device lately).

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Originally posted by jimmy123x:

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Originally posted by Balzé Halzé:

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Originally posted by Gustofer:

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Originally posted by Balzé Halzé:
I don't like leaving it plugged into a charger all night because that's not good for the battery, and my phone is now close to three years old so I'm trying to save whatever capacity its battery has left.

So that's why I turn it off. I also only charge my phone to 80-85% (much better for the life of the battery) so leaving it plugged in every night doesn't work for me.

http://www.independent.co.uk/l...attery-10509096.html

Mine is plugged in every night and several year old phones have batteries that are perfectly fine.

Charging your phone to 100% every time as opposed to 80% will indeed wear down a battery faster over time. That's just a fact. It won't "destroy" it, it lessens the battery's capacity.

That's not true...

Yes it is true.

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