Mobile Phone Charging

[Bazile]

Is it detrimental to the battery, to leave the charger plugged into the phone , after the battery has fully charged ?

[sunny-dave]

On modern smartphones with li-polymer batteries it should make absolutely no difference.

This is about iPhones, but the principle is the same for all :

https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/180615/is-charging-iphone-all-night-harmful-to-my-iphone

[ I now wait for a barrage of anecdotal rebuttals of this ]

[Peter Pedant]

yes in principle - as in you can overcharge something
but most modern chargers it senses 'full' and turns itself off

one particularly anal engineer I knew ( 'you dont have to talk to my husband everyone finds him boring' ) used to set an cooking timer for his charger and once interrrupted a meal so he cd rise and turn it off. I mean that is pretty anal innit ?

[TheChair]

As sunny-dave says, it's perfectly fine to leave it plugged in. My phone spends more time plugged in than unplugged.

[Smowball]

Mines plugged in so much I basically have another land-line!!

[Bazile]

Thanks for your replies .

I have not changed my pattern of usuage - but lately the phone has required charging more frequently .

I thought it might be the fact that I often left it charging overnight and had adversely affected the battery .

There must be another reason

[hc4361]

How old is your phone, Baz? Batteries do deteriorate over time

[Bazile]

hc
it's a Moto G - 2015

[Peter Pedant]

I was told not to charge a battery until it was flat
I dont know if that is still the case

[dance2trance]

No nothing happens - when lithium batteries are charged they are charged. End of. Olden days batteries had to be run down first but that was the olden days.

[murraymints]

dance..gosh I must be old :0( lol

[dishaparchani]

Overcharging leads to Overheating of a mobile battery which reduces the lifespan of mobile phone so it is better to unplug when it is sufficiently charged. If you cannot be on your phone while charging you can use many charge notifier apps one of them is Full Battery Alarm.
Here is the link to the same https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ebizzinfotech.fullbatteryandunpluggedalarm&hl=en