• r00ty@kbin.life
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    2 months ago

    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.