10 phone tips that everyone has followed- Information Technology
Overnight charging will drain your phone, turning on airplane mode will keep you from being tracked… are popular advice on the Internet but they’re not entirely accurate.
1. Turn off background apps to save battery
This advice may sound accurate at first because the more apps running in the background, the more resources will be taken up and the phone will run slower.
However, both operating systems iOS and Android both limit how much apps can do in the background. Therefore, there is no chance that the phone will drain the battery or slow down when there are too many apps running in the background.
2. Use the phone to completely drain the battery before plugging it in
This advice only applies to older phones, using NiCD and NiMH batteries.
Meanwhile, the majority of samples smartphone New models all use Li-Ion or Li-po batteries, so we can charge them anytime it’s convenient.
Charge whenever you feel convenient. Photo: Tieu MINH
3. Bluetooth and WiFi Direct make the phone use more battery
Bluetooth and WiFi Direct allow you to transfer data files from one device to another, however, many believe that these two technologies will drain the phone’s battery more.
This is completely wrong, at the present time, Bluetooth and WiFi Direct technology consume very little power when not in use.
4. Higher specifications will bring better performance
Every year hundreds of Android devices are introduced with impressive specifications. However, high configuration does not mean that the phone will have better performance.
Huawei, Xiaomi, OnePlus, Samsung… and many other manufacturers continuously launch phone models with multiple cameras. However, it should be noted that increasing the number of cameras will not guarantee better image quality, and manufacturers certainly know this.
However, they still choose this approach because it is a cheap marketing trick to use in promotional materials. Even though they are just cheap phones, Xiaomi Redmi Note, Realme or Samsung Galaxy A Series are still equipped with a series of secondary cameras.
Specifications are intended only for manufacturers to appeal to consumers: don’t be fooled.
5. Only use the charger that came with the phone
In a sense, this advice is also true for phones that use their own charging technology such as OPPO, OnePlus, Samsung …
Usually, you can completely use third-party (branded) chargers if they properly support the phone’s charging technology, for example Power Delivery (PD), Quick Charge (QC) …
Using third-party chargers is completely normal. Photo: Tieu MINH
6. Overnight charging will drain the phone’s battery
The battery on smartphone lines will have a different cycle (number of cycles), usually around 500-1,000 cycles, so you don’t need to worry too much about how to properly charge the battery. The phone will automatically stop charging when the battery reaches 100% capacity.
Users can extend battery life by only charging to 80% and not letting it drain completely (just started recharging), charge it whenever it’s free and convenient.
There’s nothing dangerous or worrying about charging your phone overnight, but if you place your phone under your pillow while it’s charging (or sleeping), it could overheat, causing a fire.
Most smartphones today support 18W or more fast charging, so the charging time will also be significantly reduced.
7. Apps on Google Play and App Store are completely safe
This advice isn’t entirely accurate, but it’s still true in some respects.
There have been many cases where security researchers have discovered that apps on Google Play and App Store contain malware. However, compared to installing applications using an external APK file, the software on Google Play and the App Store is still safer when everything has to go through censorship.
Google Play is not 100% secure but still better than installing external apps. Photo: Tieu MINH
8. Turn off your phone, remove the SIM, turn on airplane mode to keep you from being tracked
When you turn on airplane mode or remove the SIM, your phone can still be detected by fake Stingray or cell tower devices, all of which are used by government agencies, the military and law enforcement agency.
9. Auto brightness setting saves battery life
This can save you some battery life, but conversely, the light sensor will need to use more power to process the data it collects, and decide the appropriate screen brightness.
10. Android’s Open Source Nature Makes It Vulnerable
Open source systems are not necessarily less secure than closed source systems and vice versa. For example, Windows (closed source) is still attacked by malware continuously.
The fact that Android is more vulnerable than iOS comes from the fact that Google allows users to install external applications (sideload), not through the app store. Meanwhile, installing external apps on iOS is quite complicated.
Overall, these misconceptions are baseless. You will not get any benefit if you trust and follow.
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