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Re:Charging a lithium battery to 80% only? by dheera on Monday November 20, 2023 @11:06PM (#38359050)
> I know my android phone will let you cap max charge at an arbitrary level

Yeah I used to have old Pixel phones as Home Assistant clients on my walls until they all started bulging one by one and I had to treat them as a fire hazard.

I now use Samsung tablets, ironically, that have a cap at 80% feature and they seem to be doing fine.

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Re:Charging a lithium battery to 80% only? by KleerKut on Tuesday November 21, 2023 @03:30AM (#38360963)
Are those cells 4.4v? Samsung makes great cells, and if you only charge them to 4.2V or less they should last quite a while. When charging to 100% means different things in different cases for the same battery technology then things get murky.
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Re:Charging a lithium battery to 80% only? by 1970-01-01 on Tuesday November 21, 2023 @10:34AM (#38365017)
>I now use Samsung tablets, ironically, that have a cap at 80% feature and they seem to be doing fine.

Yes, this feature is one of the most underrated features on Samsung devices. Massively underrated.

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