cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/51432614
Can someone explain what the point of limiting yourself to just using 60% of the batteries capacity is, if all you seem to be getting out of it is it staying above 80-90% after several years? Which is far more than you were using anyway?
I have my current Oneplus for well over 3,5 years now, and I never bothered with the battery capacity. I always plug it into the fast charger that came with it overnight.
Battery capacity really is still completely fine. I donโt run out during the day and if it does get close (if Iโm very heavily using it) I plug it in for 10 minutes and get like half a charge. Which all seems like less effort than I would have to do to keep the battery within 20-80%?
If the battery does end up failing I can just have it replaced, doesnโt really cost that much either. But so far it seems the built-in battery protections work just fine.
The part you missed is that it doesnโt have to be all or nothing. You could maintain 0-80, 20-100, 10-90.
You could also not take it as gospel but just a soft recommendation, trying to get yourself near to a charger when your phone gets to 20, and plugging out at 80 if you arenโt in urgent need for more battery life.
My laptop which mostly just stays on my desk all day, is limited to 79%. This one makes sense I think.
But even if you limit yourself to 80% battery life, so you stay above 80%, arenโt you justโฆ limiting your battery life yourself then? Batteries usually have more than 80% of their original capacity left after several years of usage.
If I just donโt bother with doing this, and after 3 years I have 80% capacity leftโฆ Iโll have the same experience then as people who limit their usage now. Maybe Iโll spend 50 to replace the battery if it gets really bad (eg less than 70%), but Iโve never had that happen to any of my devices anyway.
I can understand fixing the charge on a battery thatโs normally not used like a mostly stationary laptop. But for phones I donโt see the point.
