For the sake of the longevity of your battery, try to never let it go below 35% and never above 80%.
These guys tested three phones per bucket for 500 charge cycles. Tl;dw:
iPhones lost 11.8% when slow charging for 500 cycles, 12.3% when fast charging, and 8.3% when fast charging from 30% to 80%.
The IQOO phones lost 8.8% when slow charging for 500 cycles, 8.5% when fast charging, and 6.0% when fast charging from 30% to 80%.
Only using half the capacity does make a difference, but you’ll only see longevity differences after multiple years, and only small differences then. These tests took 167 days, but the phones were charged and discharged 3 times a day on average, running heavy software to drain the phones quickly.
What I assume to be the reason for the difference between iPhones and Android phones is the maximum battery capacity. The iPhones started out with a much lower capacity battery to begin with, and even now iPhone batteries are sometimes pitifully small, so any wear and tear is magnified.
Also nowadays there are silicon carbon batteries which haven’t proven their longevity yet. There are rumors about lower longevity, because they expand and contract more during use. There hasn’t been independent testing to verify that yet. What has happened is that multiple Chinese phone generations have had silicon carbon batteries, and now even Samsung is offering phones (new z fold 8 line, soon S27 and more) with a small amount of silicon carbon, increasing the capacity about 10% beyond what lithium would provide.
While true, this affects about less than 1% of the battery life and thefore can be ignored
What’s this claim based on? The amount of cycles required for the battery to degrade to 80% of capacity is quadrupled when discharging between 80% and 35%. That doesn’t really seem to be compatible with the claim of “1% of the battery life”
It’s okay I am using a Fairphone. I can just swap the battery easily.
Sure, but why create more e-waste? Might as well make the battery you have last.
Batteries can be recycled pretty well actually.
There are limits to how far people are willing to go, and you’re talking to someone who already bought a Fairphone. Maybe not someone you should be overly concerned with, all things considering.
haha 5 6 😝
My shit is always on battery saver mode. Even at full charge.
I always chop my status bar out to save their attention span. You’re welcome.
Graphene is does it for free you can’t screenshot the whole phone, just apps
Its all about the time / percentage ratio.
9pm & 10% => completely fine
1pm & 10% => deranged psychopath
Where is your god now? :D
But why?
Gotta know if it came from a psychopath
Psycopath is having the status bar absolutely full of notificatipns.
Fact
Everyone with ADHD reading this
No, that’s usually the other way, empty except for these status notifications
through a combination of just allowing notifications for every app that asks becauseIm impatient, procrastinating actually cleaning that mess up, and never dismissing anything because “I’ll look at that later” or “I’m leaving it there to remind me to reply” or whatever, my notifications are usually insane
What part of battery level means psychopath?
Under 5%: definite Under 15%: likely Under 50%: sus
I thought way too long about the psychological implications of having a phone with low batt after reading this.
Other people’s mental health isn’t your business
Bit touchy here for some reason
Lmao
I never let my phone get below 60%, so no one should be disappointed with me
Can’t tell you how many times I’ve checked my battery and it’s at 1%
I’m not always so lucky…
It’s often red
51%
And it’s always something super low, like 5%.
