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People who charge/discharge between 20-80%, how's your device? (lemm.ee)

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

The part you missed is that it doesn't have to be all or nothing. You could maintain 0-80, 20-100, 10-90.

You could also not take it as gospel but just a soft recommendation, trying to get yourself near to a charger when your phone gets to 20, and plugging out at 80 if you aren't in urgent need for more battery life.

My laptop which mostly just stays on my desk all day, is limited to 79%. This one makes sense I think.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago

But even if you limit yourself to 80% battery life, so you stay above 80%, aren't you just... limiting your battery life yourself then? Batteries usually have more than 80% of their original capacity left after several years of usage.

If I just don't bother with doing this, and after 3 years I have 80% capacity left... I'll have the same experience then as people who limit their usage now. Maybe I'll spend 50 to replace the battery if it gets really bad (eg less than 70%), but I've never had that happen to any of my devices anyway.

I can understand fixing the charge on a battery that's normally not used like a mostly stationary laptop. But for phones I don't see the point.