Everything we buy and own needs constant maintenance if we want to enjoy them, even our electronic products need good care and proper maintenance if we want them to last long.

It is also important to care for our electronic products if we don’t want to lose valuable contents stored on them.

Also to prevent an electrical surge from damaging our electronics, in some extreme cases, not caring for our electronics could lead to burns and even fire outbreak in the home or office space.

Here are five general tips on how to maintain your electronic devices:

 

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1. Keep them in the right location or position: Place your electronic products in a place where it is not exposed to heat or cold. Make sure you keep your electronics in a place that allows for easy airflow.

2. Carefully Clean Your Device: Since you use your devices often, your devices are prone to attach themselves with dirt. This dirt needs to be carefully removed to avoid device damage.

Follow these processes to remove dirt:

For your Tv, clean screens with a lightly moistened microfiber cloth wiped gently across the surface, make sure you do not exert pressure on the screen.

Use another microfiber cloth to dry the surface and polish it gently.

Remove the remains on the screen by blowing air across the screen.

Use toothpick wrapped in a ball of wool to remove hidden dirt

3. Avoid Overcharging.

Overcharging can damage your electronic devices. Unplug your device once you discover that your devices reach full charge. Because overcharging reduces the battery shelf life of your devices, it can also damage the chargers in the long run.

4. Encase Your Device: It is very imperative to encase your devices such as phone to protect it when it accidentally drops. The casing of your device has a way of increasing the lifespan of your devices. Endeavour to always have something to protect your devices.

5. Backup Your Content: Lastly, back up your content on your electronic devices. It could be a painful thing when there is breakage or loss of a device and you have valuable content (which includes contacts, texts, media, and documents). To avoid this, it is advisable that you to backup everything or important content by cloud services like Dropbox, I-cloud, Google Drive etc.

Once you backup your content, you can easily restore to your new device or old one once it has been repaired.

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