DS lite battery : Am I screwed?

Jerichoholic

I bought a DS lite today and just started playing out of the box, when the light went red (actually Tom Nook told me the battery was low ), I started to charge, but when I was flicking through the DS manual it said I should have charged it before I played.

Is this a time to panic?

aidan_walsh

Why would you need to panic? The battery will recharge...

Jerichoholic

I was just thinking about how some old phones needed to be charged for 4 weeks before you turned it on for the first time, otherwise the battery would last about 40 minutes, for example the last phone I owned.

zilog_jones

Jerichoholic wrote:

I was just thinking about how some old phones needed to be charged for 4 weeks before you turned it on for the first time, otherwise the battery would last about 40 minutes, for example the last phone I owned.

That doesn't apply to Lithium Ion batteries, and I am shocked at how phone shop people still recommended that utter bollocks to phones with Li-ion batteries (even my second phone bought in 2003 was Li-ion!).

Basically don't worry. AFAIK the best practise for Li-ion batteries is to charge them as regularly as possible (i.e. there's no benefit to letting them go down fully), and don't leave them for long periods of time either fully charged (they will lose their capacity faster) or really low (they may discharge into a useless state).

Jerichoholic

Phew, that's great to hear, thanks!