• @Hazdaz
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    41 year ago

    I’m curious how long does your phone battery last these days?

    It used to be that my early smartphones from years back would barely last a day and I’d be looking for a charger all the time. With my latest phone, on a reasonably heavy use day, I can go to bed with about 50 to 55% battery left. And last night, I barely used my phone at all and went to bed with like 65 to 70% battery left. And to be clear, it wasn’t sitting on a charger all day either. I got up, went to work and at the end of the night was left either enough battery to last be the entire weekend if I had continued the low usage.

    Battery tech, and CPU and screen efficiency has advanced enough to where getting 2 days is not uncommon and I don’t care if it takes a couple of hours to recharge it at night. I also think much of the initial excitement of having a smartphone has died down so I’m not on it 24/7. Also having a tablet to offload some usage time helps as well.

    So ultimately super fast chargers seem almost useless to me for most situations if they degrade the battery at all.

  • @[email protected]
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    11 year ago

    Alright, this is slightly related to the topic at hand:

    I think the charging up to 80% is kinda bullshit. I’ve been using my Redmi Note 10 for 2 years, and during that time I’ve used the 33W charger and almost always waited until the device was under 10% and charged it to 100%.

    I’ve used AccuBattery and it guessed the battery health was at 85%. This is still more battery left than what I would have if I kept the device between 20~80% charge. So I don’t get it