• @A1kmmA
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    17 months ago

    I use https://f-droid.org/packages/mattecarra.accapp/ (with a rooted phone) to keep my charge levels within 5%-85% of the manufacturer battery range.

    Most manufacturers made a decision to set the range their devices will charge to based on what is less likely to fail so quickly you’ll get mad at the manufacturer, but they trade off significant battery life for slightly higher design capacity (or perhaps more likely, they see shorter battery life as a feature not a bug, as long as it doesn’t catch fire, since it will mean your phone becomes e-waste faster and you give them more money).

    Battery chemistry tells us that avoiding those extremes of high and low charge (shutdown earlier on low charge in the rare event that happens, stop charging at a lower level) drastically increases battery life - it is aligned with my interests, even if not the manufacturers’.