How often do you have to charge your cell phone?

I have a waterproof, super durable Casio G’zOne Ravine 2 . I charge it once every 4 days .
I charge it when the battery is very low and then give it a full charge. I try to avoid half charges.

About once every two days if I don’t use it much and, daily if I surf the web, etc. The data connection seems to use most of the power while in standby mode.

Either all night or for a few hours when I’m at work. So in other words, I try to charge it fully once per day. I have a Samsung Galaxy S4.

Twice a day if I use it. It’s five years old and the battery is all but kaput.

Every day. It’s a Moto X 2103.

Recently I discovered that 5Ghz wifi drains the battery twice as fast as 2.4Ghz so I turned that off on my home and work routers.

Daily

I just automatically charge it overnight.

I just have a Samsung flip phone.

I use it about 2 or 3 times a week. I recharge it about once every two months.

Every 5 or 5 days, but I don’t use it much.

@janbb Just FYI…charging a phone that doesn’t need to be charge can mess up your battery, unless something has changed.

When it starts to beep or flash letting me know it will die soon enough of I don’t.

I have a Droid Razr HD which, in it’s day, was renowned as having one of the longest-lasting batteries. That allows me to charge nightly, though occasionally I can skip a day, and some days of heavy use drain the battery in a couple of hours and require mid-day chargings.

You claim you use your phone a bit for private use, but the fact that you even can last more than 3 days on a charge tells me that it isn’t a smartphone, and Mrs. Squeeky’s isn’t either. Am I correct that you are using “dumbphones”?

@Dutchess_III There is a grain of truth to that, but Lithium Ion batteries don’t have the sort of memory effect that NiCad batteries, the technology of choice for rechargeable batteries a decade ago and still occasionally used in cheap electronics, do. About the only NiCads I see any more are in old cordless landline phones and low-end radio-control vehicles; the hobby-grade R/C rigs and cordless powertools moved to NiMH and/or Lithium yeeeeears ago.
In average use, a Lithium or NiMH battery degrades more by being exposed to oxygen or high temperatures than through charging regimen. However, NiCads are pretty fussy about being discharged before recharging, and since NiCads were the rechargeable batter for a couple of decades, I can see how one may thing that all rechargeable batteries are like that. And honestly, treating a Lithium battery with the same charge/discharge regimen as you would a NiCad is harmless and actually does have a slight benefit, but it’s not essential like it is with NiCads.

@LuckyGuy I use mine as a dash-mounted GPS, and during warm weather, that little area above my dashboard pushes the temperature of my phones battery up to ~120F. Given how LiOn batteries are affected by temperatures like that, I don’t think that waiting for it to hit 1% charge between chargings would be enough to counter the abuse I heap on my phone. How the heck it’s battery life has barely reduced in the last 3 years is beyond me, but implies that LiOn batteries are getting more stable as they evolve.

I’m using the original Moto-razor (or there abouts).

I charge it nightly, and I’m thankful that’s enough.

@jerv yeah they aint smart phones, but have zero need for a smart phone, it does everything I need it to do, send photos,text when and if I have to,and store up to 200 phone numbers that is what I depend on it the most for, I don’t drive with it on.
it has voice command,speed dial,can surf the net but I don’t with it so it is all I need.

@SQUEEKY2 As much as I love my Droid, I sometimes miss my old Nokia 2120 simply because that actually could go for days without charging. I think I could’ve tied that thing to a stick and use it for some light carpentry work too, but I never tested that theory.

Well, switching from analog to digital technology helped the charging issues quite a bit.

I have this pad, however, that I rarely use. Maybe once a week to look up some info on a movie we’re watching. It seems like every time I pick it up it has to be charged. Sucks.

@Dutchess_III My nook sees about an hour of use a day, but since I don’t use it for surfing or anything that requires wifi, mine goes about a week between charges.

One thing that cellphones and tablets have in common is that the radios in them are the real power hogs. Back in NH where standing in the middle of downtown might get you two bars and most places were lucky to even have one, the cell-radio had to “scream” in order to try and find a tower, and you can guess what running the radio at maximum power does to battery life compared to staying in areas with good coverage that allow for a lower-powered transmission.

That Nokia 2120 that lasted me 5–6 days on a charge here in the Seattle Metroplex required daily charging in rural NH, and my wife’s Motorola camera-phone’s battery life went from ~18 hours to ~3½ days when we moved to where cell coverage is better. Likewise, turning on the wifi on my tablet cuts battery life by >80%.