The computer doesn’t KNOW when it’s suddenly not going to have enough power, that’s insane! There isn’t a little tank of petrol inside your phone, your phone can’t predict how much power you’re going to be using when you’re on it, and your phone can’t see the exact amount of charge left in your shitty old dying battery.
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LWD@lemm.ee 10 months agoIf it’s known that the phone will shut off at 15%, the battery gauge should show 0% when it gets to 15%.
I’m not sure why the entire phone experience needs to be slowed down by some percent for every phone of a particular model.
Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
LWD@lemm.ee 10 months ago
What you just described… Does that become less true when the power is throttled?
2xsaiko@discuss.tchncs.de 10 months ago
No, but the chance of voltage drops due to the battery not being able to keep up with the load is a lot lower.
kirklennon@kbin.social 10 months ago
It's not. The throttling is dynamic based on current battery state and current power demands. If you're doing stuff that's low-demand, you probably won't be experiencing any throttling at all. If you do something demanding, only then does it slow down, and only to the extent needed. It may be as simple as dimming the screen brightness a bit while taking a video. Or maybe you've edited some video and need to export it. Instead of, for example, the five seconds that it would have taken, it will slow the processor down and take ten seconds. And then when you're back to just scrolling web pages, the throttling may be gone again. The more severely degraded your battery is and the lower its charge level, the more you'll experience throttling, but you'll only experience throttling at the moments when, without it, your phone would have instead just shut itself off. It comes and goes as needed.
Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
Thank you for being a reasonable person. These people have no idea how battery-powered computers work. And the idea that the sensor can tell exactly when a battery is at 0% like a tank of petrol is hilarious.