Pixel phones now support bypass charging when set to the 80% charging limit
Pixel phones now support bypass charging when set to the 80% charging limit
Google's new 80% charging limit feature for battery health now also means its Pixel phones support bypass charging as a byproduct.
This is something I do on my new (Samsung) phones for the last 2 phones and this latest one I also turned off fast charging. On previous phones it was capped at 85%, current ones seem to have several options with the highest "saving" being to charge to 80%
If I'm going out for the day and need the full charge I turn it off for the duration and if I need a fast charge I turn that back on.
By and large though most of the time I keep it off. Seems to make the batteries last a bit longer. Too early to tell on the current phone though. Only a year old. I generally keep phones for around 4 years.
I used to do the opposite on the old nicad batteries phones had in the 90s. I'd carry a spare fully charged one, run the main one down to zero, swap them and then charge it to full. This made a huuuuge difference though.
I do this with my OnePlus device running lineage OS. There's a toggle to only charge to 80% and I've turned it on and always use it and then I only let it drop to about 30% before I plug it back in and this keeps it from getting too high or too low. I think getting too high damages the cells more than getting too low does, but by capping the bottom side at 30%, I guarantee that I will find an outlet to plug it in before I run out of juice entirely.
Not seeing that option in my pixel 7 with the latest December update (which revamped the settings menu with a different order, placing Google at top instead of bottom)
Should be under "Charging optimization", previously called as "Adaptive Charging".
I got the option after rebooting again after the update's reboot
Do iPhones bypass charge when you set a charging limit (or leave them plugged in at 100%) as well?
Cue GrapheneOS refusing to support the feature in 3...2...1...
It is probably proprietary code so not open source hence the lack of support. Would love if they would bake in the feature though.
That's not what bypass power is. A phone can draw just the amount of power it uses at a time and still have it go in and out of the battery before being used
Will the Pixel 5 get this feature?
It's already out of support so that seems very unlikely
