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Battery overcharing
Siwastaja:
--- Quote from: PlainName on December 24, 2023, 12:12:37 am ---For reference, I would think that big name manufacturers would know about the product they are shipping.
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This is almost always wrong assumption, go figure. Of course their engineers know the product very well, but the manual is almost never correct at all, they are full of totally made-up bullshit to the point of making us engineer-minded lose hope in humanity. There always are managers who think that giving correct information is "too complicated" for "regular people", and solve the problem by lying, similar to "santa claus exists and gives you presents". The result is something that benefits no one, but laws require to have manuals no one reads, so then you have lies.
Specialized laboratory equipment etc. is in much better situation because the engineers can write the manuals.
Halcyon:
There is absolutely no issues with leaving a phone plugged in for extended periods. You won't over-charge the battery doing this. The charge controller will simply stop charging when it's complete.
PlainName:
I just charged my phone until it said full, and then left it. It was constantly sinking 4W. Should it not have been taking 0W?
Kim Christensen:
--- Quote from: PlainName on December 25, 2023, 10:25:37 am ---Should it not have been taking 0W?
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No. The phone itself will be using power even though the battery is finished charging and not taking any current.
Dacian:
A battery phone keep at 100% SOC will get damaged fairly fast.
In average on my last phone I was replacing the battery every 2 years because it was mostly plugged in as phone is used as a WiFi hotspot.
Recently I got a CAT S22 Flip and likely due to newer OS (Android 11 Go) there is now an option for the battery to be kept in the 50 to 70% SOC range while plugged in and this should improve drastically the battery life. So hopefully I will need to battery replacement for this phone at least for the next 5 years.
The other phone I have is BLU with older Android 9 and that is missing this future and on top of that it keeps the battery at 4.3V so not sure how much it will last (I think is about 6 months since I started to use it in same way always plugged in) so far it seems fine.
I will be able to see the battery bulge as all my phones have removable batteries. The old one was also BLU I think android 4 and after the third battery died I decided to upgrade.
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