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Originally Posted by pjphilli
I see that Apple advises letting the IPad battery discharge fully and then recharge at least once a month.
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My understanding of this is so the battery management chip can recalibrate.
With many partial charge/discharge cycles it can report a false state of the batteries remaining charge.
The occasional full charge/discharge cycle allows it to know the limits and then calculate and report the remaining capacity better.
As far as I'm aware memory effect doesn't exist for lipo's (I don't believe it existed for NiCd's and NiMH's either, but that's a long story), however there is a current debate on whether lipo's benefit from a special charge for long term storage.