Is your Xiaomi running out of battery quickly? This happens often and it applies to all smartphone manufacturers. Let's figure out how you can extend the battery life and improve the autonomy of your device.

Getting rid of unnecessary applications

Over time, your smartphone begins to acquire a bunch of applications, some you use constantly, others become irrelevant. The problem is that often installed applications are added to autostart and eat up battery power.

Let's go to Safety > Permission > Autostart

Here we turn off everything unnecessary. Also try to use fewer widgets and display only the most necessary ones.

Energy saving mode

MIUI has a power saving mode that controls background app activity and saves energy. To enable it, go to Safety > Battery > Energy saving.

Automatic application updates

With a large number of programs, updates can drain the battery very quickly. Let's go to Settings > Battery and performance > Battery consumption by apps > Select applications

Here you can set operating restrictions for each program or disable them completely.

Disable unnecessary notifications

Many notifications appear on the smartphone screen: about receiving an SMS, a missed call, social networks, mail, instant messengers and so on. All of them are important, but there are also notifications from gaming applications, which are completely useless and only eat up battery power. They can be disabled: go to Settings > Notifications and status bar> Application notifications.

We turn off everything unnecessary.

Reasons for rapid discharge

It's worth noting that setting up apps correctly doesn't always help and the battery can still drain quickly. The reasons may be the following:

• Non-original battery installed
• Non-original is used charger
• Low-quality third-party firmware installed. Always try to use firmware from the manufacturer
• Poor network quality also reduces the autonomy of the smartphone, because it spends energy maintaining the signal level.

Battery charging problems are quite common. When purchasing a gadget, you will notice that it is usually 30-80% charged. This charge is supported for a reason, but because it is the most optimal for a smartphone. In this article we will look at how to properly charge a new Xiaomi phone, and what not to do to make the battery last a little longer.

New lithium-ion and lithium-polymer batteries do not need to be pre-calibrated, and they do not need to be discharged to 0 and charged to 100% the first three times ( this can be done after some time, more on that below). However, new gadgets also have problems with energy consumption. It happens that after purchase the battery holds a charge for quite a long time, and after a month of use its battery life drops significantly. This happens due to improper charging of the phone, excess loads and many other factors.

Why does my smartphone battery drain so quickly?

This question is of a general nature and does not only apply to Xiaomi phones. The battery on your old phones drained just as quickly as your new ones, only now smartphones use a lot more energy. This is because we use them every day, always and everywhere, which is why they have so many useful applications and functions.

It's all about background applications that cannot be disabled. This is the Android system itself, and a modern phone will last no more than 1-2 days (with constant use) and this will be considered the norm. But due to battery wear, this figure will decrease, as a result of which you will begin to blame the phone itself, but you should misuse your devices.

Below in the pictures you can see an example of using the battery on my. The data was taken after charging.

Applications

As you can see, voice calls take up the largest percentage of consumption; everything may be different for you. This data does not show the whole picture, but roughly you can see who is “eating” the largest supply.

For most phone owners, the Android system itself consumes about 40% of the battery.

Proper Battery Setting

There is a myth that the battery of a new phone you need to discharge to zero and then charge to 100%. However, this is not true. This technology worked well on older devices. The new Xiaomis have galvanic elements installed that work differently. In simple words, The power controller connected to the board is responsible for charging the battery, and when it reaches 100%, it will protect your battery from the network, even when charging is turned on.

For modern smartphones, the optimal solution is to keep the indicator at an average level without completely discharging and completely refilling the battery. Such extreme conditions may damage or reduce its service life.

Attention! This is not a battery calibration, this is a test of the power controller for a new phone. It is not necessary to do it, there are no side effects. Decide for yourself.

When charging for the first time after purchase, do the following:

1. We charge a switched off smartphone immediately after purchase. It must remain connected to the power source, even after the indicator is completely filled, for at least 12 hours (it is best to leave it overnight).
2. We disconnect it from the network.
3. We turn on the phone and charge it for an hour while it is running.
4. Disconnect the charging cable and turn off Xiaomi.
5. After five minutes, we connect the already switched off device to power.
6. We charge for an hour.
7. Turn it on and use it.

This instruction was tested on my Xiaomi Mi 5, Redmi 4X and Redmi 5 Plus immediately after purchase.

How to properly charge a new Xiaomi phone, or extend the battery life

Below I will talk about the 5 most important tips that will help extend the life of your smartphone battery. It is these recommendations that most experts agree on.

Modern smartphones charge quite quickly, but when connected to the mains for a long time, they deteriorate faster. This is especially important for models with batteries older than a year. Therefore, the device should not be left overnight.

Better leave your phone near you, while you work or do something else, this way you will control the charging process. All the same, your Xiaomi will eat no more than 3-5%, even if it lies in standby mode all night.

Always use the original charger

Absolutely any smartphone manufacturers recommend using their original charger. It’s not even a matter of marketing, it all depends on the current strength of the charging itself. New models are increasingly using the “fast charging” mode. And for Quick Charge to proceed correctly, use only “native” power supplies.

What to do if the original charger is broken

Before purchasing an original charger, you can use any other analogue. It is important to note that the power supply must be identical in characteristics to the original one.

If possible, try not to use third-party cables or boxes. It is better to buy a new charger from an official seller in your region (order on Aliexpress from a trusted seller) than to risk your device.

Don't let your phone overheat

Even if you want to play a heavy game, remember that if the phone overheats too much, it can also affect the battery, the consequences will not appear immediately, but over time you will notice a loss of charge much faster than before.

The normal temperature of a smartphone should be between 35-38 degrees. Thanks to the craftsmen from Xiaomi, their smartphones are equipped with a built-in thermometer and antivirus. You can immediately check the heating of the device through the settings, and even cool it down (by resetting active applications).

Do I need to charge my smartphone to 100% and discharge to 0%?

As we mentioned above, magic numbers 100 and 0 No! It is recommended to keep modern touch phones at 10-90% charge, and then there will be no problems with battery wear.

To avoid damaging the battery initially, follow the instructions described above. For preventive purposes, you need to do calibration once a month: It is worth completely discharging your battery to 0%, and then charging it to 100% while it is turned off.

Frequently asked questions and their answers

Is fast charging effective?

The new Xiaomi has a fast charging function. There is an opinion that it harms the battery, but this is not so. If your smartphone has such a function, then you can safely use it. But you should not resort to it too often, since the battery may get used to it, and then in normal mode the indicator will take longer to fill. Tested on Xiaomi Mi5.

Is Power Bank harmful?

Some people like to use special devices for mobile charging smartphone anywhere. This will not only allow you to comfortably fill the battery without being tied to sockets, but will also allow you to safely recharge your Xiaomi during a long trip. PowerBank does not cause any harm to your phone's battery and can be used an unlimited number of times.

What can cause the charge indicator to start lying?

This situation can actually happen. In this case, the device usually shows more power than it actually is. This happens due to improper charging. If you fill the phone's battery only a small amount all the time, the gadget will change the indicator data, calculating them from the new discharge parameters. To fix this problem, once a month you need to completely shut down the Xiaomi and then charge it to 100%.

Video instructions

At correct operation your smartphone will serve you well for many years. Follow the helpful tips below.

1. Do not expose touch phones too much low temperatures. Normal work process can be carried out up to -20 degrees, some a little more, some a little less.
2. Try not to carry your Xiaomi in your outerwear pockets. This can negatively affect the operation of various components, as can exposure to direct sunlight in summer and hot weather.
3. Xiaomi recommends monitoring your phone's charge, and when it reaches 19-10 percent, put it on charge, this will double the number of charging cycles.
4. If your model supports QC 3.0 and 4.0 and you constantly use this technology, it is better to sometimes charge the device in the usual way.

If after reading our article you still have doubts, misunderstandings, questions, or you would like to share useful information additional information— write in the comments or in our telegram chat @mifaq_chat. Long service to your Xiaomi everyone!

Today, manufacturers are releasing more and more smartphones, the characteristics of which include a fast charging function. Let's figure out what it is and find out how to enable fast charging on Xiaomi.

Quick Charge is a feature that allows you to spend much less time charging your smartphone than before. At the same time, the battery life is not reduced, and the user spends much less time on charging and is not “tied to the outlet”, as before. Let's find out if your new Xiaomi Mi5 has fast charging and whether it can be used.

Proper fast charging: what you need

Absolutely nothing other than a standard charger. There is also no need to enable it separately, because it is initially activated in Xiaomi smartphones, in the characteristics of which the line is written "Quick Charge". You only need a regular one original charger for your gadget. What is the principle of its operation? There are more than high voltage, than it was previously in the exercises.

However, you should be careful: you cannot use such chargers with outdated phones that do not support QC. This can lead to overheating and even fire of the smartphone battery. But even if this does not happen, you will not notice the difference between charging with a regular cable and a Quick Charge cable due to the fact that the phone itself is not prepared for accelerated energy production, and the battery has never been charged this way.

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Will there be consequences?

We have repeatedly heard concerns from smartphone owners that the Quick Charge function literally destroys the smartphone's battery, and that it is especially dangerous to charge when the phone is turned off. We hasten to assure you that this is not the case. A huge number of scientists worked on the development of this technology. Several tens of hundreds of different types of tests were carried out in laboratories, as a result of which Quick Charge was created in the form in which we have it today.

Many Russian and foreign research publications are already talking about the fact that soon mobile devices will charge almost instantly from 0% to 100%. Believing this or not is a personal matter for everyone, but it is still unlikely that such a volume of work is aimed specifically at deliberately destroying batteries your smartphones. Therefore, you can easily charge your devices without fear of premature battery failure. Enjoy it without worrying about anything.

Conclusion

If you compare the first and last line of smartphones with the possibility of accelerated charging, you can see a significant difference, because with each new model Our gadgets are charging faster and faster. For example, recent tests showed that using Quick Charge 3.0 technology, the phone was charged from 0% to 60% in 30 minutes. The capabilities of the next generation Quick Charge 4.0 are even more impressive: after charging for 5 minutes, the device will be able to work for up to five hours inclusive, even though the indicator will show a small percentage of charge. This is achieved due to the fact that the phone automatically turns off the least important functions devices, such as menu animation and data synchronization with the cloud, and also disables the high brightness of the display. And this is not the limit. Great, isn't it?

Almost the most important characteristic A smartphone is an indicator of its autonomy - the duration of operation on a single charge and the time it takes to fully recover the latter. Today we will get to know how things are going with this.

According to testing results full charge The battery is recharged in 1 hour 20 minutes. The figure is not a record, especially against the backdrop of the recently announced technology, which allows you to charge a 2500 mAh battery in just 15 minutes. But if you look at the charging graph, you can see that in 30 minutes the battery life is replenished by 57%, and this is a very decent result today.

In terms of autonomy, Xiaomi Mi5 was tested for 5 hours of continuous web surfing, listening to music, watching videos and playing games. After all tests, the remaining battery life was 19%. The most voracious were online games and videos. With moderate use of the smartphone, by the end of the day the battery charge is 24%. And it’s nice to note that in standby mode when connected to Wi-Fi, for 8 hours of operation, the smartphone consumed only 1% of energy. In general, we can say that the battery life of the Xiaomi Mi5 will last at least for a day with an average level of load on the smartphone.

The most big problem For all phone manufacturers, this is device autonomy. Every year the performance improves, the resolution of displays increases, the thickness of gadgets decreases, but autonomy remains at approximately the same level. It is not uncommon for Xiaomi redmi, note and mi models to run out of battery quickly. In this article we will try to figure out how you can use software to increase the service life of your Xiaomi and what to do if your gadget begins to discharge faster.

Reasons for rapid discharge

• Non-original charging unit. If you use a non-original charger, this may well cause the battery to drain quickly.
• The charging cable may also be the cause, especially if it is a low-quality and cheap fake.
• Non-original battery, as it turned out, some sellers sell Xiaomi smartphones with non-original batteries, they have smaller capacity and discharges 2 times faster.
• Bad firmware is very common cause a decrease in the autonomy of the device, this can be either a crooked custom or an unsuccessful update from the manufacturer.
• Incorrect device setup. A large number of hidden processes occur in a smartphone, even when you are not using it, as a result of which the smartphone is constantly downloading something from the Internet, which leads to low autonomy.
• Network quality. If you are far from the tower cellular communications(for example, outside the city), then the smartphone needs to spend more energy maintaining the network, and if it periodically loses connection, the battery will drain very quickly.

Battery saving settings

If the media server uses a lot of power

A common problem with Android devices is excessive battery usage by the Media Server process. Periodically, the media server scans the device's memory to search for media content.

Quite often, it simply cannot read any file, this mainly concerns files on external memory, thereby constantly scanning, which causes the phone to discharge faster. You can check this by disconnecting the external memory from the device for a while, and then checking the battery consumption statistics. Decide this problem once and for all, there are several ways:

1. If the issue is with external memory (microSD), then initially you need to connect the card to the computer and check it for errors and bad sectors.
2. Install the ID3Fixer program, it will help correct distorted ID3 tags, select windows-1251 (Cyrillic) encoding for all music files.
3. If the previous option did not help, then install the program Xposed Media Scanner Optimizer, which will help disable scanning of media files if you uncheck certain boxes.

Increased consumption after firmware

If after installing new firmware you notice increased power consumption, there may be two reasons for this:

If you are ready to do anything for additional autonomy, then you should use the following methods:

1. Turn off the weather and remove the weather clock;
2. You should not install third-party themes; many of them have poor optimization, which results in errors in operation. Use the standard theme from the developer; to update the interface, change only the wallpaper;
3. If you use the standard gmail program for mail, then do not enable automatic synchronization of POP or IMAP accounts for mail and yandex mailboxes. The point is that if at the time of mail synchronization you lose connection with the mobile Internet, the synchronization server freezes and can use the radio module for up to 4 hours, which will greatly drain your battery;
4. Do not activate MIUI and Xiaomi services, if they are already active, you can freeze them through the Titanium Backup program, unless of course you do not use them.