After 2 years and 3 months my pixel 6 got too hot one too many times while charging and using and the battery expanded. Now I replaced it and got a pixel 8.
Now I don’t want that to happen again. I know this chip gets hot when charging. And I don’t mind slow charging at all, I’m used to overnight charging.
With my current setup I got a 20w cable charger and a 10w wireless one, and I want to know how to get even slower, less heating charging rates. What adapter brand is reputable, and is the slowest, battery friendliest that’s still reasonable for use… If this phone also just lasts me 2 years instead of the 5 that I’m gonna get os updates I’m gonna be mad… I’m okay with a battery replacement in general after a while but that isn’t really doable if the entire case is bent like it is on my P6…
I wish we could replace batteries…
Same… It should really be a default or a regulation… It also annoys me how flawed the fair phones are as devices…
What flaws are you referring to? I’m perfectly happy with my FP4. Just wondering what flaws I should be annoyed about.
What flaws are you referring to?
For me, lack of security. I also vaguely remember hearing that their repairability was overstated/limited due to part shortages, but I never looked into that as the lack of security is a deal breaker for me.
I got the first version of the terraube. It was awful, which is really unfortunate. They did a good job on the hardware-ish…but they only updated the software once. So the phone, after 3 1/2 years was stuck 2 years into the software lifecycle. Then they released the Terracube 2…which has the same issue. In addition, when I tried to get the original phone serviced, they upped the price of the repairs to about the same as the terracube 2, after promising it would only be 60$ a repair when I first got the phone.
Fairphone was a phone that I had looked at too…but its over 1000+ and I just cant see a phone that expensive.
Slow charging only makes a tiny difference IMO, modern devices don’t get very hot while charging and Li-ion is fine up to about 45C during charging.
The best option is stop charging at 80% which will substantially improve battery life, my Samsung has this built in. But for phones that don’t you can use a wifi power plug and a Home Assistant automation to turn it off when your phone hits 80%.
Oh my gosh, that solution is incredibly smart. I’ve been wanting to keep my phone below 80% since I got it, but ultimately was trying to manually check it and gave up, and two years later my Pixel 4a battery is pretty poor.
I’m setting this up, thank you so much. I think I do even have a WiFi adapter somewhere I hadn’t found a use for.
At least with Android 14 (I don’t recall if it did it before) when I plug my pixel 6 in at night it goes to an ‘adaptive charging mode’ to accomplish just what you’re asking for with the idea that it slows charging to compete around the time of the next alarm. So maybe you don’t need to actively pursue it if the software is regulating the input there?
That just uses normal fast charging to get to 80%, then stops the charge and finally resumes charging about an hour or two before the planned “charged by” time. No slowing down.
Oh, and it also has (or had on Android 13) a cool bug where it just stops charging if it fails to reach 80% by the time it wants to resume charging (for example if you put the phone on a slow charger late at night - that’s how I woke up with 60% battery after 4 hour sleep).
So I just gave up on the idea of using a slow charger to better preserve the battery because the phone clearly wasn’t expected to be used that way.
If you charge overnight set an alarm - most phones will automatically slow down charging to the safest rate that will get it to 100% before alarm
But it still quick charges and gets pretty warm until it reaches 80% and then continues an hour before the alarm :/
My 6 pro won’t slow charge until after 10pm I’ve noticed. My alarm is at 04:30, so if I start charging at bedtime, 08:30ish, it doesn’t slow charge. It’s weird that way. Already on my second 6p, my first I’ve died one night, woke up with a flashing gray white screen, and it was hot. Got it rmad thankfully.
Smartphone batteries usually get damaged between 2-3 years of use, nowadays it doesn’t matter if you use slow or fast charge that it’s being determined by the charging cycles supported by the battery at the moment of the manufacture, I suggest you to learn how to disassembly your own phone and buy a replacement online to avoid big extra charges, it’s more easy than it seems.
Mind will be 6 years at the end this month and still going strong (considering its age). I make sure not to leave it charged at 100% for a long time. I’ve read through some article in lemmy not ago that not charging it more than 80% will improve its charging life cycle - doing this now.
My Samsung S21 has a feature called “Protect Battery” which limits the battery to only 85% so you never fully charge it to 100% and thus conserve the battery more. Since I can still get a full day of battery with only 85% (topping it off when using wired Android Auto in my car) this has worked well for me. Not sure how accurate it is, but Accubattery reports my battery health is still at 92% after 3 years
