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Motorola Moto G Power 2022 Battery Drains Quickly
Users have noticed the battery for the device drains rapidly over time. The phone will overheat and not charge. Follow these steps to fix this issue.
Getting Started
Lithium-ion batteries offer benefits such as high energy density and long life cycles, but they are sensitive to temperature extremes and natural wear over time. Exposure to excessive heat can reduce battery performance, accelerate capacity loss, and in rare cases cause thermal runaway, which may result in overheating or swelling of the battery. Some solutions to address this issue can be:
- Avoid exposing your phone to direct sunlight for extended periods,
- Keep the device away from heat sources such as radiators or hot cars.
- Use a phone case that allows heat dissipation rather than trapping it. Some phone cases may use materials that conduct heat more than others.
- If you notice excessive battery drain or overheating, check battery health in settings, and replace the battery if necessary. Most phone service stores should be able to help you with this.
Screen Brightness
High screen brightness significantly increases battery drain, especially when the display is in use for extended periods. Automatic brightness settings can sometimes keep brightness levels higher than necessary, leading to faster depletion of battery power. To address this:
- Lower screen brightness manually in settings under the display category.
- Enable adaptive or auto brightness so the device adjusts brightness based on light surrounding the phone.
- Use dark mode to reduce power consumption on OLED/AMOLED displays, you can change this in the display settings.
- Limit screen-on time by adjusting screen timeout settings in the display options, lower the screen timeout so your phone stays on less.
Out of date software
If a smart phone's software is out of date, it can significantly reduce the phone's performance, including the quality of the phone's battery. If a user does not have automatic updates enabled, it is easy to fall behind on the latest updates that are necessary to maintain optimal performance. Ways to fix this are:
- Enabling automatic updates in setting under the Developer Options category to ensure the device stays with the latest improvements.
- Manually check for updates through settings, even with automatic updated enabled, it is still recommended to regularly check for updates.
- Restart smart phone regularly, rebooting the phone around once a week helps clear temporary files, along with other small fixes. It is a good practice to keep your phone running optimally.
- When it is time for an update, don't procrastinate and forget about it, get it done then to prevent future issues.
Bad charging habits
Bad charging habits can affect any smart phone's battery health and performance. A bad charging habit that only happens every once in a while, won't necessarily ruin your battery. Consistent poor charging habits may be hard to break, but will make all the difference in preserving a smart phone's battery life. Here are some ways to solves these habits:
- Enable optimized Charing in the Battery section of the settings app, this feature will learn your charging habits and slow charging after 80%.
- Don't restart your phone while it is charging, this will then override the optimized charging feature and defeat it's purpose.
- Learn to avoid overnight charging, when you leave your phone plugged in all night, it will keep it at 100% for hours, which will stress your battery.
- Try to only charge when your phone is between 20%-80%, your battery will last longer when charged in this range, avoid letting it drop below 5%.
Environmental Factors
Your smart phone's battery can degrade over time, factors like temperature of your phone, will slow down the battery's performance. High temperatures above 95 degrees, and low temperatures below 32 degrees, lead to performance drops and accelerated battery degradation. Ways to solve this issue are:
- Avoid leaving your phone in direct sun light, hot cars, and other high temperature environments. If your phone is hot to the touch, allow it to cool down before charging.
- Also avoid leaving your phone in cold environments like snow or ice, and keep it safe near you when you go out into low temperature environments.
- You may have an older battery that has probably already been degraded by this factor, you can check if this is the case for you in settings under battery health. If this is the case for you, you can get the battery replaced.
Power hungry apps
Certain apps take more storage than others, and having many big apps will start to add up and consume more power from your battery life. Having too many "large" apps can lead to problems such as causing your battery to drain faster, and slowing down your device's performance. Here are a few ways to solves this:
- Be mindful of the amount of apps you have and how much storage they use. You can check this under the storage category in settings.
- Offload the apps you don't use often, or delete extra files you may not need anymore. Essentially, clean out your phone.
- You can buy a microSD card to increase your smart phones storage by however much you need or choose.
5000mah battery
While a 5000 mah battery is good, there are always factors that can cause the battery to drain rapidly. The Motorola Moto G 2022 is advertised to last up to three days on one charge but a 5000 mah battery typically lasts 1 to 2 days or 10 to 12 hours of continuous use. In order to take advantage of the devices large battery the following actions should be done:
- Disable any unnecessary background features such as blue tooth scanning and Wi-Fi searching in order to prevent battery drain.
- Enable helpful features such as auto brightness, battery saver, and dark mode which can all help the devices battery last longer.
- Prevent the device from overheating while charging. Remove anything that could trap heat and keep the device in a location away from direct sunlight.
Defective battery
A defective battery can cause many problems, the main one being less charge being stored in the battery. A defective battery can be the chemical degradation of a lithium battery over time or it can be something like a internal short circuit. There are a few solutions that can address the battery problems:
- Run battery tests in order to find the problem that your device may be facing. Isolating the problem makes it easier to find the best solutions for you.
- It can be easier and more environmentally friendly to replace a different component that is not the battery if you can identify the issue.
- Any physical problem or severe overheating problems in the battery unfortunately require a battery replacement in order to prevent further damage to the device and prevent harm to the user.
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