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Otter to [email protected]English • 1 year ago

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

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Otter to [email protected]English • 1 year 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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    Any way to tell? I just got a monster phone with a 22K mAh battery.

    • @[email protected]
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      69•1 year ago

      For Android, there are a multitude of apps, such as Wattz that will tell you the actual voltage of the battery. Full may be 4.2V or 4.35V depending on the chemistry used. ACCA (root required) will let you limit charge rates and stop charging at a certain percentage.

      Staying under 4 volts (around 60% for most phone batteries) will vastly extend battery service life. 80% is a bit less extension, but still far better than charging to 100%.

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      • noodle (he/him)
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        5•1 year ago

        that doesn’t answer the question of whether there’s a way to tell that their battery is limited to 80% on hardware level, though.

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          Unless it’s lying about the voltage itself, you can be pretty sure it’s not limited if it charges to 4.35V. 4.2 is a little more tricky if you don’t know for sure whether 4.2 is the full voltage for the cell.

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      19•1 year ago

      That’s one hell of a battery

      What phone is that‽

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        13•1 year ago

        I don’t know, it says “Heavy duty” on the side.

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        Apparently the name is Doogee V Max EDIT: or Unihertz Tank

      • Blaze (he/him)
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        4•1 year ago

        Curious too

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          1•1 year ago

          https://oukitel.com/pages/oukitel-wp33-pro

          • Blaze (he/him)
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            1•1 year ago

            Thanks!

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        3•1 year ago

        Late reply:

        https://oukitel.com/pages/oukitel-wp33-pro

        This replaces my old phone, Bluetooth speakers, battery banks, all that. Hella heavy, but so is all that other crap. I can drop it 5’ deep in the swamp, go down and get it. Still testing!

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      10•1 year ago

      Jesus Christ that’s a car battery

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      9•1 year ago

      omg kilo milliampere

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        2•1 year ago

        k = 10^3 and m = 10^-3 so they will cancel out. It’s just Ah without any prefixes at that point.

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      5•1 year ago

      Charge it from a smart power supply from battery at 1 to 100% then it can show you the number of mah/h it took to charge it.

      I have this power supply which also has USB-C https://a.aliexpress.com/_mrChiQ6

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        6•1 year ago

        Not sure how accurate this would be as charging is not 100% efficient. Also the amount of power the phone uses while charging would have to be taken into account as well.

    • @[email protected]
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      5•1 year ago

      My phone has a 10.8Ah battery and it’s huge, no idea how big that must be.

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      2•1 year ago

      22Ah at 4.35V would be 96Wh, which iirc is just under the limit of 100Wh you can take on flights in the us, and thus the limit for basically all laptops.

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      1•1 year ago

      mAh are a terrible way to measure capacity, look for watt-hours instead. You need to know the voltage for it to be a relevant measurement

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