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 don’t run out during the day and if it does get close (if I’m 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, doesn’t 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 doesn’t 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 aren’t 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%, aren’t you just… 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 don’t bother with doing this, and after 3 years I have 80% capacity left… I’ll have the same experience then as people who limit their usage now. Maybe I’ll spend 50 to replace the battery if it gets really bad (eg less than 70%), but I’ve never had that happen to any of my devices anyway.
I can understand fixing the charge on a battery that’s normally not used like a mostly stationary laptop. But for phones I don’t see the point.
I basically never run out of battery in a single day… Unless one of my anomalous 3rd party apps decides to shit the bed. Just use my phone as much as I want, and charge each night.
… That said, I’ll still put it to charge occasionally if I’m in the car and below 60% simply because I’m neurotic.
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
3 years of it, I went from 99% to 92% on a OnePlus 8T.
My wife who doesn’t follow the same guidelines is at 80% life.
I prefer it since I have a pretty reliable charging schedule. And I also have a small 5000mAh emergency charger with a foldable port in my day to day bag. Win win for me.
3.5 years almost with the Xperia 5ii. Tried between 20 and 80 but for the last year, the battery life was so bad that now it is between 10 and 80 while barely using it. AVG battery SoT discharge rate is 18%/hr according to accubattery. When I got it, it was around 9%. The killer is screen off time which is 2.6%/ hour, over double what it was originally.
Accubattery has been tracking through the phone’s entire life and says it is at 70% or so now. Almost 9% per year loss.
Xperias must have super cheap bad batteries because my girlfriend’s A52 (a much cheaper phone) purchased at the exact same time, used much more often, and charged to 100% still lasts 1-2 days easily and the battery capacity is at 85% or so. But maybe if I charged to 100%, the battery life would be at 50% of so with the quality of the battery.
