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Re:iPhone Performance Degrades as Battery Ages by disconnected on Tuesday December 19, 2017 @07:20PM (#15965849)
I have a similar situation.

My Android (1st Gen Moto G, running Lineage OS, about 3 years old) shuts down once the battery level hits 15%. You can actually see it change from 15% to 1% for one brief moment before it shuts down.

Sure, the battery is old, but this behavior is unlike the behavior of any other OS/device I've seen. I've seen some laptops with seriously messed up batteries and as far as I can remember, the OS reports a smooth discharge profile without steep drops and without and strange "surprises".

I think Android is probably not taking battery health into account when it reports remaining capacity, but that is only a guess.

Re:iPhone Performance Degrades as Battery Ages by k3a on Friday December 22, 2017 @08:17AM (#15987180)
Can't it be a problem with the fuel gauge inacurately measuring the battery capacity? I have seen it only on one "cheap" Android device and I have been using Androids for a long time. Anyway, easily removable batteries are the way to go.
Re:iPhone Performance Degrades as Battery Ages by kalleboo on Tuesday December 19, 2017 @10:24PM (#15966778)
My old MacBook Pro battery got so bad that it would jump down and back up 20% randomly.