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Otter@lemmy.ca to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years ago

Why Charging Your Gadgets Over 80% Is Such a Bad Idea | iFixit News

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Otter@lemmy.ca to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years ago
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When we think about battery longevity, we think about charging cycles. But that’s not the whole story.
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    Just build phones with the understanding that batteries are consumables and make them easy to replace and standardized. Then swap in a new $5 battery when you need to so. Make the raw materials reclaimable too of course.

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      Do most people not have the option to protect their battery already?

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        I think that’s a Samsung feature

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          It’s built into my pixel as well. Shrug

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            You have an older Pixel or just rooted, maybe? My 7 on the latest vanilla Android doesn’t seem to have it, and this thread seems to say it’s not available in the stock os.

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              Is called adaptive charging

              It’s on my pixel 7 pro at least

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                Ah, I see. I was focused on the 80% limiter for that “Maximum” setting, which I think is not an option on Pixel. But I see now that “Adaptive Charging” sounds like it does what that middle setting “Adaptive” does.

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          And on iPhone the system expects you want your battery to charge over 80% on a daily basis. On a Samsung phone the system knows you don’t want to go past 80% at all, so it sets that as the new maximum.

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      Sure, but let’s also preserve current batteries as long as possible so we can lower our carbon foot print. We need to do both.

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      To be clear, you are still taking about rechargeable batteries right? I agree those should be replaceable. I sure as hell don’t think phone should use single use batteries!

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        Yes, 18650 or a standardized rectangular equivalent.

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          A standard would be nice… I mean all phones are basically the same size and shape.

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