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agressivelyPassive@feddit.de 7 months agoSure, if my battery lasts literally 30min, I’m totally not forced to buy a new phone. I’ll just fast charge my way through the world.
Kbobabob@lemmy.world 7 months ago
30 min? LMAO.
SqueakyBeaver@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 months ago
I literally know someone with this type of issue. Battery goes from like 70 to 20 in maybe 20 minutes
Their phone isn’t even that old
Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
I know lemmy hates Apple but HOW?!
My five year old iPhone lasts all day, and is as fast as what I bought it?!
That battery has to be bad. I loved the shit out of my HTC Dream but that only went from 30% to 0 when the battery was BUSTIN
Kbobabob@lemmy.world 7 months ago
It was probably abused. I’ve never had a phone get that bad and I really do not think that is some widespread thing. Otherwise you’d see a lot of three year old EVs with a 20 mile range.
SqueakyBeaver@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 months ago
not entirely sure tbh Just know their battery is shit at this point
Seasoned_Greetings@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Toward the end of my pixel 5’s life, the battery in it lasted about 10 minutes. The phone itself was 3 years old. It happens.
Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
How?! I’m currently on a five year old phone that lasts all day with its original battery?!
XTL@sopuli.xyz 7 months ago
Abuse or defects or environment. I’ve, for example, seen one battery which was constantly woken up (technical term in case it sounds odd) because of some event in the wireless signal and that made it use up the battery in a ridiculously short time. It was a combination of the way a network was set up, bad signal quality, and a firmware quirk. Clearly a defect, but hard to say whose. Forcing it to use some mode in the radio via settings circumvented that.
Seasoned_Greetings@lemm.ee 7 months ago
I get the feeling it has to do with how wireless charging works. On a wire, a phone can regulate how quickly it takes charge or whether it does at all. I don’t think phones are capable of that with wireless charging, which is exclusively how I charged my pixel 5 at night.
So it would get to 100% and stay there for several hours every single night. I didn’t realize it was bad at the time.
It could always just be that I was unlucky and got a defective battery to begin with. No way to know for sure.