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

• Zak@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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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  • umbrella@lemmy.ml ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    i was looking for something like acca since forever

    foss discoverability needs some mad work

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    • helenslunch@feddit.nl ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I just use Home Assistant + smart switch

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      • umbrella@lemmy.ml ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        how do you do it?

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  • noodlejetski@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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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    • Zak@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      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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• Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  That’s one hell of a battery

  What phone is that‽

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  • SharkAttak@kbin.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I don't know, it says "Heavy duty" on the side.

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  • 21Cabbage@lemmynsfw.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Apparently the name is Doogee V Max

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  • Blaze@lemmy.zip ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Curious too

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• Taleya@aussie.zone ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Jesus Christ that’s a car battery

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• swag_money@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  omg kilo milliampere

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  • Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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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• LazaroFilm@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 a.aliexpress.com/_mrChiQ6

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  • ji17br@lemmy.ml ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.

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• RobotToaster@mander.xyz ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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• Redjard@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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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• Bocky@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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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