It is very annoying to type a long message to your loved one only for the battery to die just before you hit the send button. What could be more heartbreaking, is realizing that your battery won’t charge through the normal charging process.
Below are some methods that will help you to jump start a dead battery without having to replace it.
Wipe and clean your phone
When you use your phone for a long time, the lithium battery metallic surface together with the contacts suffers from oxidation. This leads to a shortened battery life. Also, its effectiveness decreases. It is therefore very important to regularly clean any residue that might have built up so as to make sure the battery always have a clean contact with your phone.
You can easily accomplish this by wiping clean the metal parts of your battery and also your phone with a suitable cloth. In this way, you will improve your battery efficiency and use duration.
Bringing a dead battery back to life
Lithium makes batteries work using the charge-discharge process where both positive and negative electric charges collide. In room temperature, the kinetic energy is usually somewhat big, but as the battery is upholding an active state, rapid electric leakage can take place. However, in cold temperatures, the battery’s microstructure and interface become significantly changed making it stay at an inactive state thus minimizing electric leakage. This will, in turn, increase the battery’s life span. This is how you to go about it
1. Put your battery in an air tight plastic bag or if you don’t have any, wrap it with a newspaper then twice with a plastic film to protect it from getting wet.
2. Leave it in a freezer for 72 hours.
3. Remove your battery from the wrapping and leave it at a cool place away from any direct sunlight for at least 48 hours.
4. Put it back in your phone and without turning it on; plug it with an appropriate charger. Allow it to charge for the next 48 hours.
After 48 hours have elapsed, switch on your phone and check the battery percentage. If you have succeeded, your dead battery will be revived and working again.
Try to jumpstart the battery
This method is both effective for a battery that has exceeded its life span or one that has overstayed without charging and thus lost its ability to hold any charge. For this, you will need your battery, electrical tape; length split wire and a 9V battery.
1. Connect the positive and negative terminals of the 9V battery to the corresponding side of the wire to each terminal. Always cover your connections with an electric tape for safety.
2. Do connect the wire to your battery’s terminals and use a tape to secure them. Never connect a negative terminal to a positive terminal.
3. Let the batteries stay connected for not more than 60 seconds or just until your phone battery gets warm. Monitor the phone battery temperature closely.
4. Immediately the battery becomes warm, disconnect them. NEVER charge the phone battery fully in this manner. Return the battery back to your phone and resume the normal charging up to full capacity.
A bulb might help
• First, do a full discharging of your battery to prepare it a deeper recharging.
• Get two wires and connect them to your positive and negative battery terminals.
• Proceed to connect your phone to a 1.5 V bulb.
All residual power in the battery will get transferred to the bulb and the bulb will continue to dim until it cannot emit any light. Although this method is not the best, it still works.
Use a USB and Charger
You need a USB cable, a charger or laptop, and your battery. Follow the below steps to restore your dead battery
1. Cut the USB cable end that goes into the phone’s charging port
2. Skin the red and black wires
3. Twist the exposed wires
4. Plug the USB cable into a charger
5. Place the black wire which symbolizes the negative terminal to the corresponding battery terminal
6. Connect the red wire which is the positive one terminal to the battery’s positive terminal.
7. Hold them manually in place for a few minutes.
8. Return the battery to your phone.
9. Plug your phone into the charger.
Your phone should start charging but if that doesn’t happen, repeat step 7 and hold longer this time.
Conclusion
The best way to save your battery is by taking proper care of it. Whenever your phone gives you a low battery warning, make a point of charging it immediately. Never leave your phone charging overnight since unstable charging voltage can have a negative impact on your battery.
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I never knew that just by placing my battery in the freezer helps increase its life. This a very informative article. Thanks for posting!
One personal tip I can share is what to do when your phone gets wet. Put it in a bag of rice and wait until the next day. The rice will absorb the moisture. It works for me.
Nice info. I surely gonna need this sometime although skin the red and black wires part seems scary.
I would really like to know the science behind freezing the battery. Won’t the battery continue leaking energy once removed from freezing temperatures?
Thanks for this helpful article. I really need batteries nowadays because of some typhoons and emergency cases. Well looks like I hit the jackpot since I was finding an article like this so thanks a bunch!
This usually happens when I sleep actually. I like to keep my battery percent up when I am out so it does not really happen when I am awake.
Freezing the battery increases life? Well, worth a try I guess!
This is very interesting. I really wants aware of some of the methods outlined here like putting a dead battery in the freezer.
In addition to these tips, you’d be wise not to totally drain your phone’s battery (like 0%) because doing so alters the chemical component within batteries. Ideally, you should be charging your device as soon as it hits 30-50%, that way it won’t be depleting its charging cycles too fast.
I’ll have to agree with this. To me , it’s similar to letting all your gas run out of your car before filling it up. Letting this happen will always drain your gas faster instead of filling it up when it gets to about a half tank.
Wow very informative article, I sure hope that the techniques above work. I am definitely going to try them when the situation arises.
Will be trying out some of the techniques soon. Didn’t realize some hacks can really be simple. Thank you for this informative article!
I have been looking for a solution how to restore my dead Smart mobile, I appreciate your post! I will try to follow your instructions to see if it will work on my battery. Kudos!
Is that applicable to any kind of batteries? I got my battery fat and my friends warned me that it is not safe to use it anymore. Is it true that the fat battery will explode?
This is such an informative post! Now I know what to do when I have a dead battery
Wow, I have never heard of this. Good to hear it here. Thanks!
I have tried the method of putting the battery in the freezer and it did work. Thank you for the tips, this was really informative.
Your tips are much appreciated, but I’m really bad on these things. Like electrical works or something so, I would rather just buy another one or bring it to a technician.
Interesting! I have never tried it before. I want to try it with some old batteries we have in the house to see if it really works.
Great article about restoring dead batteries. but i have a question i know the steps you listed are mostly for smart phone batteries but what about for laptop batteries can the listed actions still work?