Your phone doesn’t need to be old or damaged to lose battery life too fast. Here are simple ways you can fix phone charging issues on your own.
Imagine going out of town confident that you have a fully charged phone. As you sit behind the wheel waiting for a traffic gridlock to end, you pull out your phone to pick a new playlist, only to see that your phone is about to die — but it’s only two hours from your last charge!
That can happen even to phones that aren’t so old, mostly because phone batteries aren’t built to last long. Overuse coupled with improper handling can really take a toll on your smartphone’s capacity to hold a charge.
In the past, fixing a battery issue was easy because you could easily replace them on your own: just buy a new battery and swap out the old one — or buy a new phone altogether.
These days, batteries are built into the smartphone so they are very difficult (if not impossible) to remove. However, this doesn’t mean you should throw away your phone whenever you start having phone battery problems.
Here are a few practical solutions where you can still fix phone charging issues on your own without having to spend too much time and money.
Bring the battery to a full charge
Before you can even begin to dismantle your phone and buy electronic parts in an attempt to fix the battery on your own, plug in your phone to a charger and bring it to a full charge. In many cases, phones that have been dormant for a very long time lose their charge quickly, so it’s advised to completely drain the battery before plugging it back in so it reaches 100% capacity.
Restart your phone
In many cases, battery issues are a result of glitches and bugs, particularly when the phone receives a new update. In this case, you may have to restart your phone and see if it does the trick to re-calibrate your phone’s battery meter.
Replace the charger
It might sound crazy, but your main issue could be the charger itself. It comes to a point in which it doesn’t charge your phone as quickly as it did before and yet it indicates a fully charged battery. For this, you might want to try changing your battery charger.
Make sure you get a phone charger that’s made by the same manufacturer so as to avoid any more complications. Plug yours in and look for the light or icon on your phone to see if it says it’s charging — it might not be charging at all, or it might cut in and out.
Still can’t fix phone charging issues?
Not everyone with a non-removable battery can fix phone charging issues. And though you can always get wisdom from YouTube tutorials, it’s still best that you have a professional take a look at the problem and apply the right solutions.
A much better course to take is to bring your phone to a certified service center that’s dedicated to your phone’s brand. That way, you can avoid costly mistakes. It might not be as cheap as doing it yourself, but it’s still less expensive than buying a new phone.
Fixing non-removable batteries in smartphones isn’t always a simple thing, although it’s much more practical compared to buying a new phone every now and then.
