• Shayeta@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    Honestly, I find this preferable. I only charge at night and a battery that charges slowly lasts longer.

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      It’s not preferable at all.

      They’re purposefully crippling a $1000+ product.

      You’re free to buy a slow charger for $8 on Amazon, there’s tons of solutions for that.

      There’s no solution for garbage hardware

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        1 year ago

        my samsung galaxy s10 had an option to turn off fast charging in settings (for wireless too)

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        Most of Apple users I’ve met master the art of turning Apple’s crap decisions into features and advantages over the competition.

        I lost all faith in those folks being reasonable.

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        I really wish we had the capability to stop charging early. I’d love to leave my phone plugged in for crazy long periods, but only keep the battery at like 70%. This way it wouldn’t degrade performance from the batteries being left at full charge.

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          Are you sure you don’t already have something like this? My android is a couple years old, but has always let me charge to only 85%

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            1 year ago

            It’s not a feature commonly found in AOSP ROMs, in my experience.

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              That’s unfortunate, I guess. I mean, even though I do have my phone set to only charge up to 85%, I don’t really know if this is battery protective or not.

              Is it?

              I just enabled the option because the description of the feature claimed it to be. I haven’t researched this at all

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                Yes it should be, somewhat anyway. Primarily batteries wear out through use, both charging and discharging - if your phone is plugged in but not charging, then your phone is running off mains and the battery isn’t being used. However, batteries also wear out over time, albeit much more slowly. Manufacturer’s typically recommend keeping batteries in long term storage at around 70% to minimise this effect. If you’re always plugged into mains at 100% charge, then you’re not following this storage recommendation. Leaving it at 100% won’t kill the battery, but its capacity will go down quicker than if left at a lower charge.

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        Yeah, or just a slow charger next to bed? Who doesn’t have a charter next to bed? Especially a slow one costs nothing.

        Definitely wouldn’t want to give up PD speeds to top up during the day. Well, I would give them up if I didn’t have to top up during the day.

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      If you find that preferable, you’d love the Pixel then. You can turn it on and off as you please.

      https://screenrant.com/use-adaptive-charging-pixel-7-how/

      Also if you’re using an official Apple USB-C charging cable on an iPhone, you can expect that it will charge at full speed (overnight or not).

      And if you’re at a friend’s house and they have any other Android phone on Earth, the fast charging cable that they use to resuscitate their own Android phone from 10% to 50% in 15 mins and will take your (much more pricey) iPhone 50 minutes.

      And the overpriced iPhone cable that charges those iPhones fast, will charge any Android phone fast.

      At the minimum, you should understand that you’re the one getting the shit end of the stick. Don’t explain how it’s so convenient for you to get the shit end of the stick, that’s what let’s manufacturers keep getting away with this anti-consumer bullshit.