Android @lemdro.id baatliwala @lemmy.world 2 wk. ago

Pixel phones now support bypass charging when set to the 80% charging limit

www.androidauthority.com Pixel phones now support bypass charging when set to the 80% charging limit

Google's new 80% charging limit feature for battery health now also means its Pixel phones support bypass charging as a byproduct.

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This is something I do on my new (Samsung) phones for the last 2 phones and this latest one I also turned off fast charging. On previous phones it was capped at 85%, current ones seem to have several options with the highest "saving" being to charge to 80%

If I'm going out for the day and need the full charge I turn it off for the duration and if I need a fast charge I turn that back on.

By and large though most of the time I keep it off. Seems to make the batteries last a bit longer. Too early to tell on the current phone though. Only a year old. I generally keep phones for around 4 years.

I used to do the opposite on the old nicad batteries phones had in the 90s. I'd carry a spare fully charged one, run the main one down to zero, swap them and then charge it to full. This made a huuuuge difference though.
- I do this with my OnePlus device running lineage OS. There's a toggle to only charge to 80% and I've turned it on and always use it and then I only let it drop to about 30% before I plug it back in and this keeps it from getting too high or too low. I think getting too high damages the cells more than getting too low does, but by capping the bottom side at 30%, I guarantee that I will find an outlet to plug it in before I run out of juice entirely.
Not seeing that option in my pixel 7 with the latest December update (which revamped the settings menu with a different order, placing Google at top instead of bottom)
- Should be under "Charging optimization", previously called as "Adaptive Charging".
  
  That's weird! It appeared now! I am 100% sure that this morning it was missing. Probably some server-activated feature
  
  Pixel 7 🤷
  
  Adaptive charging is on or off, no other options in there
  
  Edit: just realised I had an update pending for Android 15
  
  Edit 2: Nope, still the same after system update
- I got the option after rebooting again after the update's reboot
Do iPhones bypass charge when you set a charging limit (or leave them plugged in at 100%) as well?
Cue GrapheneOS refusing to support the feature in 3...2...1...
- It is probably proprietary code so not open source hence the lack of support. Would love if they would bake in the feature though.
That's not what bypass power is. A phone can draw just the amount of power it uses at a time and still have it go in and out of the battery before being used
Will the Pixel 5 get this feature?
- It's already out of support so that seems very unlikely

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