Is there any evidence that this really matters on top of the protections and limits that are already built in and obscured from the user? There’s such a cult around this feature, but I’m not convinced.
What I don’t understand is do any of the OEMs giving this feature also combine it with passthrough power? So besides not charging the phone at 80%, it would keep it working using the wire instead of the battery.
Fair question. I’d assume that the buffer which the BMS/low level firmware reserves is relatively marginal. Having too high a margin at that (low) level would take away a lot of capacity and might make people mad
Fucking finally. My 7 will be thankful. Xperias have had this for years.
Honestly I thought it was standard for modern electronics, or cells themselves, to internally consider 80% as full
This is untrue. Overcharge protection is for preventing catastrophic events like the cell catching fire. You can easily verify this by measuring the voltage at full charge.
I thought they had it, like a lot of phones, Samsung has a limiting to 80% or even disabling fast charging
Oh didn’t realize this was only in lineageos and not yet in Android proper works pretty well.
I am on the latest patch, and am not yet seeing this :(
Honestly, if I have the option to keep it toggled on/off I’m fine with it, but I also don’t see it in my latest update which came in last night. But not too concerned yet (Pixel 8a) so it’s still pretty new I guess. :)
Is this different than Charging Control? I’m on 7 Pro CalyxOS and have been using that since I was on 4 XL [a couple years ago]. I figured it was AOSP…
Edit: added a cleared timeline.
So it was not there? I had this on 2 Samsungs back
Nothing burger.
