Google recently brought a charging limits feature to Pixel phones, and the company quietly revealed that it occasionally ignores this toggle.

  • .Donuts@lemmy.world
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    20 days ago

    The reason:

    This is done to “recalibrate” estimated capacity. In other words, your phone needs a full charge so you can get accurate data regarding estimated battery life and to prevent any issues/bugs.

    • Pasta Dental@sh.itjust.works
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      20 days ago

      Yep 100%. On my Zenfone 8 at first I blocked the battery to 80% and quickly I found the battery got very short. All I had to do to fix the issue was a full battery cycle (100-0-100). What I noticed doing this is that it lasted for an absurd amount of time at 1% which indicates me that it was decalibrated. After the procedure the battery life was more at normal levels again

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      20 days ago

      Batteries are already limited by their own controller, so this makes sense. Further limits really only make sense for devices that spend all their time on a charger.

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        20 days ago

        I would tend to disagree with that as I’ve had devices in the past that I let charge to 100% and would notice battery degradation very quickly and with my current device I’ve kept my charging at 80% and my battery has done really well. I cycle my battery between 80% and 30% usually and sometimes it will get down to like 25% before I plug it in.

  • seang96A
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    20 days ago

    Is this still rolling out? I’m on November update with all apps updated and this is still missing.