When you recharge your phone, which of the following actions would you do first? Connect the data cable to the phone or the charger to the wall outlet? It may seem like it doesn’t matter at all, but only one of these options is correct.
It’s not just a whim. Failure to perform this process can result in persistent damage to the battery that shorten the lifespan of your mobile phone in a few years, forcing us to repair it or change it for a new one.
You may not be charging your phone properly
When it comes to charging our smartphone, you may have never thought about the order in which you have to do it. You may plug the charger into the wall first or plug the connector into your mobile phone first. You may think that the order of the factors does not alter the product, but this is not a multiplication and we can damage our battery.
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As we can see in this video from an engineer that is going viral, it turns out that you may be charging your mobile phone incorrectly if you first chose to connect the cable to your phone and then more conveniently plug the charger into the wall socket. However, when we started worry about overvoltage We will see that the correct order is the other.
Overvoltage refers to a instantaneous surge beyond the normal working voltage, a kind of transient and violent pulse that can be generated in about a millionth of a second. You may have heard a buzzing sound when your phone starts charging. That’s overvoltage.
This surge should not be underestimated. It may cause data loss, performance degradation, reduced battery life, phone freezing and restarting, screen flickering, noise, circuit damage and other problems.
If you connect the data cable to the phone first, a large impulse may be generated at the time of connecting the power supply, and excessive surge voltage will damage the phone. If instead, first you connect to the wall outlet and then you connect the phoneAlthough the surge cannot be eliminated, direct contact between the surge and the phone can be avoided to a certain extent.
On the contrary, when the load ends
If you were wondering if there is also a trick to the disconnection process, yes. Disconnect the phone first after charging it. Because when disconnecting the charger, it is easy to generate reverse instantaneous current, which may cause a series of problems, such as accelerated aging of the battery and shortening its life, etc.
Furthermore, as you probably already know, it is harmful to the phone if you leave it connected to the power source for a long time after being fully charged. Although the electrical consumption is practically minimal, continuous use of the charger can cause wear and damage to both the charger and the mobile device, so it is better to charge it at times when we are aware of when it reaches 100% instead of leaving it overnight while we sleep.
