Does it hurt the phone's battery to charge it before it is totally dead?

Does it hurt the battery to charge it before it is totally dead?

This is a heavily debated issue, not only with iPhone batteries, but also with batteries for almost any other electronic device. Some think it is paramount to wait until it is almost drained (10%>) before charging it, while others don't think it hurts it at all to charge it whenever you like. The only thing I would recommend you don't do too much is let it drain to 0% and let it sit in that state for too long. You may also want to be more careful with when you charge it the first few times you do (this is known as conditioning the battery).
Hope that clears it up a bit for you.
-bb

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If you are having issues with recharging your iPhone's battery, I would suggest that you troubleshoot using the steps in this article -
iPhone and iPod touch: Charging the battery
In particular, this section -
Inspect the connector at the bottom of the phone:
Make sure that there are no bent pins in the connector.
Make sure that the connector is free from debris.
If there are bent pins or debris, please contact Apple Support.
Otherwise, continue troubleshooting.
Make sure that the outlet you're using works.
Make sure that the Apple USB cable and Apple USB power adapter work.
Plug the device in to power and let it charge until your device turns on. This could take between 10 and 30 minutes. If you don't have an Apple USB power adapter, try connecting to a computer's high-power USB 2.0 port (not a keyboard). The computer must be on.
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i am wondering if there is any difference when the battery is fully desharged thus the phone swithes off , and then you plug it into the power outlet to be charged.
or if it is not fully decharged, and it has some one or two battery bars on the upper right corner of the display, and you set it to be charged, is there any signifficant difference between these two states ?
is there any official or technical advice on "How to make the phone's battery last longer " ??
thanks in advance.

It depends on the battery.
Charging the battery when there is some power in it is especially bad for NiMH batteries. The loss of power is called "memory effect" - battery "remembers" that it does not get fully utilized and over time starts supplying less power.
But new Nokias come with Li-Ion or Li-Polymer and the effect on these being charged when there is still power in them is negligible. Especially for the Li-Polymer ones.
See here about batteries and "memory effect":
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battery_%28electricity%29#Life_of_rechargeable_batteries
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_effect
Here's more info on types of batteries:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li-Ion
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithium_polymer_cell
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