I bought a new tablet but my old one still has some life so I decided to use it till it dies. I set up my new Galaxy S9 Fe and I was thinking about just letting it be at 0% battery till I’m ready to use it, is this ok?
I bought a new tablet but my old one still has some life so I decided to use it till it dies. I set up my new Galaxy S9 Fe and I was thinking about just letting it be at 0% battery till I’m ready to use it, is this ok?
li ion batteries are never really at “0” - that’s just a figure showed to the consumer.
In reality, in very lay man’s terms, the batteries are hibernating when it’s 0. They will continue to “lose” energy as per usual (like how when you’re starving, it doesn’t mean you are on the verge of death). When the minimum energy level goes below a certain amount necessary for life support, the battery will suffer physical damange, you can no longer wake it up unless you bring it to a hospital and get a professional to resuscitate the battery by doing something dangerous.
So yeah, you can leave it a 0%, just that your phone may never wake up again if you leave it alone too long.
You leave it at 50%, it will depend on how long it takes for the phone to lose 50% energy in your environment, then you’ll be in the same situation as the 0% one.
That’s why new phones are charged to about 80% or 90% when sealed in a box - you’ll never know how long the phone is going to sit on the shelf. That should be good for a few years.