I understand LiOn batteries have limited times of charge/discharge cycles, so what are exact steps I shall be taking to prolong battery life? Charge more, charge less?
Disconnecting the charger immediately after charge termination and reconnecting to force a little more current into the battery.
Basically abusing the charging algorithm's state machine.
No, when I'm talking about "bump charging", I'm talking about:So if I have a battery at say 60% left and I'm at workplace and I have a choice to charge it to 100% while I'm at work or let it discharge more and charge to 100% when I'll be home?
I mean does charging up 2 times to 100% counts as 2 counts charge/discharge?
The two patterns you describe are fairly similar, I would probably charge it at work just to avoid getting caught with a low battery.
But would not this pattern mean that you are cutting your battery life in half becouse you use 2 cycles out of finite number of charge/discharge cycles.
I don't understand what full cycle means? SO if you never completely discharge your battery you never use any of limited number of charge/discharge cycles? That covers pretty much everybody.That's full charge/discharge cycles, so charging a partially discharged battery won't use a full cycle.
No, you just use them more slowly. e.g. a partial discharge/charge doesn't count as a full cycle.I don't understand what full cycle means? SO if you never completely discharge your battery you never use any of limited number of charge/discharge cycles? That covers pretty much everybody.
Switch to EDGE for literally everything, except when u feel u need data quite heavily. EDGE is generally sufficient for day to day activities like mails, etc. And it REALLY helps extend battery by atleast 40%!
Did you bother to read the thread beyond the original subject? You'd see that's not the type of "life" the OP was talking about.
Also, forcing EDGE on many ROMs causes all sorts of weird crap to happen. It didn't work at all on Froyo, and it causes CM7 and Hellraiser to start force closing like crazy.
1. sorry
2. I am on Infused 2.0.5 with EDGE on most of the time without any issues (its a GB ROM)