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New phone... What are the chances of this surviving until 2030? (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/googlepixel@lemmy.world
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[–] 9 points 2 years ago (3 children)

People are right to worry about the phone's battery. If you want to keep it that long, get a 500mA charger and slow charge it every night and avoid deep discharge.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I thought this was fixed/debunked years ago?

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    Charging above a certain speed, does degrade the battery faster. Thinking that by slow charging your battery will last any noticeable time longer is where this all falls apart.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    Right, which is why the Pixel still charges slow af(25W). It's really because it's a single cell battery, the phones with really high charge speeds are multi cell arrays. Each cell can be individually charged at similar wattage to the pixel but with a much smaller cell size it appears to charge faster. I think the OnePlus is the one that is advertised to charge ridiculously fast, iirc it is a 4 cell array, which is why it can charge at 100W (25W per cell). Technically the same speed as the pixel but you're simply charging 4 smaller batteries at once.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    This combined with adaptive charge would mean you will probably wake up with a dead battery.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    Adaptive charging just charges at full speed until it gets to 80%. It then maintains that level until 2-3 hours before the time the alarm is set for, and then it charges to 100%. A 500ma charger likely wouldn't be able to fully charge the phone while a normal person sleeps (depends on the starting charge level of course), but the worst that adaptive charging wouldn't do anything that would lead to the battery being dead

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