It is likely that, on some occasion, and depending on the phone model and time of year, you have realized that your smartphone has lost a large percentage of battery even though you have not used it, drawing your attention a lot, however, It has a fairly obvious reason that we are going to see today.
In the same way, we will analyze the way in which not to consume battery, or do it as little as possible, if you want to preserve the autonomy of your device for as long as possible, since you know that you are not going to use it for many times. hours, as happens when we sleep.
Why does the battery of a cell phone that I don’t use drain?
First of all, we will have to differentiate between a mobile phone that is turned off, and another that is at rest, since many people think that by not touching it, and having the screen off, it no longer consumes battery, however, we are going to see all the moments where the wear of it occurs, to a greater or lesser extent, so that we can check why it decreases in our case:
- Apps and system at rest: The device continues to consume battery because it has applications in sleep, and the system continues waiting for a call, for example, so although it is less due to not having the screen on, it will need energy for it.
- Active connections: GPS, Wi-Fi or Bluetooth may be activated, which helps, among other things, to geolocate your phone if you can’t find it, or even as a network for other devices such as AirTags, so it would also be a kind of process. in the background.
- Battery deterioration: As with other batteries, such as those in cars, over time, this component loses its properties, so it can have problems retaining energy, and it loses it little by little even if we do not use it.
- Extreme temperatures: Both cold and heat are not good allies of the battery, although heat is even worse, so if we put the device in the sun, it could suffer a much faster degradation than in a cool place.
- Malicious applications: There are a type of apps with malware that could be constantly sending data and collecting information, even recording through cameras with the screen off. This, logically, requires energy, and therefore, battery consumption.
The only way to preserve the maximum of it is turn off your phone completely. There are cases, after several years, where it is still intact and has barely lost a small percentage, something that will not happen with it at rest, so we will not be able to do anything, except try put it in airplane mode or disable as many connections as possible, so that it lasts longer, however, it will continue to run out despite being with the screen off and away from it.
And you, what do you do to try to make the battery last as long as possible in these cases? Leave us a comment with your opinion.
