• weew@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    Overnight. I find that “fast charging” as a feature is just a crutch for not having enough battery life to last a day. Why would I ever want to carry a bulky charger around all day instead of just having a phone that’s 1mm thicker?

    oh right it’s to make us buy more accessories

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      1 year ago

      Thanks to overnight slow charging, swappable batteries, and a magnetic charge coupler, my S5 from 2014 still works great. I use it in the shower for tunes, and drag it to appointments to use the IR blaster to turn off fox news in waiting rooms.

      So, in a way, it’s also to make us buy more phones.

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      1 year ago

      Same

      Is manually limiting your charging to 80% necessary anymore? I’ve heard people say that modern phones / chargers are pretty good with handling that for you.

      I’m looking forward to removable batteries again though. Being able to swap the battery when it degrades will be nice.

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        Is manually limiting your charging to 80% necessary anymore? I’ve heard people say that modern phones / chargers are pretty good with handling that for you.

        They are. My phone gets all night to charge to 80% and will only go beyond that if I tell it to in advance.

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    Whenever it’s getting to about 30%. I also use slow charging, and since most of the time I am near a charger, it’s never a problem. I often wake up with my phone at 35%, I plug it in before going and most of the time when I go I am at 70%.

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    1 year ago

    About every second night. I normally use 20-40% per day so sometimes I charge every third night.

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    1 year ago

    Handily my phone can use the same chargers that we use for laptops on our house, and as the charge is fast, and battery capacity good, I don’t bother charging it at night unless it’s low. Before this phone I’d charge every night. Some sort of progress.

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    1 year ago

    During my morning routine. It takes less than 1 hr from 0-100% so 30-45 minutes is enough.

    Would be coom if Android offered a standard for calculating the charging power to reach 100% just before the alarm clock.

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      1 year ago

      Sony does this (and the iPhone), but yeah should be a standard feature.

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    1 year ago

    my phone takes about 20 mins to charge completely and i charge it once every 2 days, in the morning while I’m doing my morning business.