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Re:Google announces Pixel 5, Pixel 4A 5G, and Pixel 4A by fulafel on Tuesday August 04, 2020 @10:58AM (#24050626)
The last 10-20% of the charging causes most battery wear (many times more than in the mid band). So charging from almost-full to full many times per day is going to be harder on the battery than charging fewer times per day.

This is especially pronounced on phones, where batteries are already calibrated to have a high charge cutoff (ie battery longevity vs capacity compromise is heavily at the capacity end).

Re:Google announces Pixel 5, Pixel 4A 5G, and Pixel 4A by int_19h on Wednesday August 05, 2020 @09:08AM (#24060360)
What I don't get is why phones can't be configured to just never charge past 80% or so, for people who rarely need that 100%, and would rather the battery wear less.

It's a thing for some laptops; e.g. Lenovo specifically advertises such a setting.

Re:Google announces Pixel 5, Pixel 4A 5G, and Pixel 4A by fulafel on Thursday August 06, 2020 @07:05AM (#24069865)
Apparently you can do it on rooted Android, though I haven't tried it (eg https://www.androidexplained.com/battery-charge-limit/)