cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/51432614
I’ve had a OnePlus 9 Pro since around when it came out in April 2021. Around 6 months later I installed AccuBattery and started trying to keep my phone between 20-80% battery. I still charge it to 100% sometimes, like when I think I won’t have access to a charger or will be out for a while, but generally I stick to it. It is also good to do a full charge (<15% to 100%) once every few weeks because it helps the battery stay calibrated and give accurate percentage readings.
In the 3+ years since then, my phone’s reported battery health has gone from a little over 90% to ~83-85%. I also almost exclusively use the 65w fast charger that came with my phone (I’m impatient) so that might be hurting my battery a bit more also. Here’s the graph of battery health over time that AccuBattery shows me
I’m a little over 2.5 yrs on a Sony Xperia 5 III, I use the 80% limit feature but not as good about keeping above 20%; and avoid fast chargers for overnight charges.
I don’t have hard accubattery numbers but still works fine, I end most days pretty low for last year probably but never with range anxiety. No need/desire to increase my limit to 90% or 100% for extra use time yet
On the other hand, my old S22U that I charged multiple times a day with a 9W wireless charger everyday since I got it, without any of these silly 80% limits, had 95% capacity after 2 years and 4 months, according to a 3 month average on AccuBattery.
I have used fast charging a lot as well, considering that phone would barely last half a day due to the SoC
Pixel 7 Pro here going on 2.5 ish years. I think it’s made a significant difference. Normally I’d be ready for an upgrade or new battery at 2 years. Accubattery says battery health is still about 96%
Same. One of the first things I did (after rooting it) was find the kernel ‘files’ to make it stop at 79%. Battery life seems about the same as the first month I got it.
I also have a Wear OS watch (TicWatch Pro 3) that I manually charge to about 79% (with Tasker to alert me on the phone when it’s there) and it’s still using only around 30%/day after nearly 4 years.
I just use my phone’s default “adaptive charging” setting where it charges to 80% for most of the night then up to 100% right before I usually get it at ~7-8am
don’t know how to look at the health but in the 2 years since I got it I haven’t noticed any drain which is a lot better than my old phone by its 2 year mark.
I don’t intend on babying my phone though, I can just replace the battery in the future if it’s really needed. understand the benefits but I would accidentally leave it unplugged every other night lol
