Google will throttle your Pixel 10's battery, and there's nothing you can do about it

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• fubarx@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Actually, there is something you can do about it.

  But it doesn’t involve Google.

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• floofloof@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  It’s also disappointing as some rival smartphone makers address battery health concerns by offering more durable batteries. For example, Samsung’s top phones can withstand 2,000 charging cycles before dropping down to 80% effective capacity, while OnePlus and OPPO’s lithium-ion batteries offer 1,600 cycles before reaching 80% capacity. So there likely wouldn’t be a need for a Battery Health Assistance tool if Google’s batteries had similar longevity.

  Sounds like they could just use better batteries but they’re too cheap. It is Google after all, just a small company without much money to spend.

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  • dreadbeef@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    that would be putting the customer over profits, a major no-no

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• LiveLM@lemmy.zip ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  People keep raving about Pixels. All I see are overheating processors and now this bullshit

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• MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  So, like Apple did, but worse?

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  • brian@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    did you read it? apple throttled device performance. google is throttling charging speed and battery capacity for safety reasons. there are literally phones melting. also, battery capacity is something people assume will go down over time. also they’re giving clear notifications when people are affected.

    it’s not really the same, and definitely not worse

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    • evujumenuk@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Apple throttled (and continues to throttle) device performance because going full power draw on a battery with higher than specified internal resistance will just end in a device shutdown.

      They do this once there’s a first unexplained shutdown. So that takes your actual battery health into account. In contrast, Google says “200 charges should be enough for anybody” and imposes its policy no matter what your actual battery looks like.

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    • MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      phones melting

      Yeah, that’s worse.

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• M1ch431@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Companies that use child slavery and modern slavery in their batteries holding people hostage to their decisions about your personal devices…sounds about right.

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  • scrion@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    If only. My wife’s phone is affected by a Google battery recall. You basically get $50 of shut-up money and get to live with a software update that nerfs your phone to an almost unusable state, or you can try and have a local, approved repair shop replace the faulty battery.

    We’re living in a large city, there is exactly one approved store available. You can’t contact them by email, no one has picked up the phone in weeks. She is close taking the $50.

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• Cat_Daddy@hexbear.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  To echo what someone said yesterday when this was posted:

  GrapheneOS

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  • RiQuY@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Indeed.

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• beemikeoak@lemmynsfw.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  LOL. Guys, who is stupid enough yo buy anything from Google?

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• Serinus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I was planning on capping charge to 80%, which should address a lot of these issues without artificial slowing added later.

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  • evujumenuk@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Will it not add artificial slowing regardless? I think the controversial aspect of this strategy is that it doesn’t care about the state of the battery, it just counts cycles.

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    • Serinus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Yeah, it sure seems like it will.

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