TLDW; No

Basically the video is testing phones with varying charging speeds and how much battery degrades after 500 charging cycles. Also, the affects on performance after battery degradation at 5:37

Timestamps of some tests:

  • Test results for different charging speeds at 3:06
  • Storing batteries at 1%, 50%, 100% at 3:43
  • Battery performance at 4:42

After 6 mins he talks about why the tests took 2yrs and how they did it 3 times.

  • MalReynolds@slrpnk.netEnglish
    4·
    8 hours ago

    What do people think of the chargie ?

    The elephant in the room here is charging a battery when it is hot kills it fast. I live in a hot country and my (GrapheneOS) Pixel7 was spicy pillow in 18 months, happily charging away at 50+C at times (I leave it in a wireless charging stand 90+% of the time). Replaced the battery with a iFixit kit and got a chargie, which lets you set a cutoff charge temperature which I set to 33C (and 80% charge). Often in summer it charges only at night. Another year odd later gOS reports 100% health FWIW. Any phones out there that allow limiting charge by temperature natively? These devices all get developed in cool climates and aircon it seems…

    • limerod@reddthat.comOPMEnglish
      1·
      7 hours ago

      You can use software to do what you use hardware and software.

      I imagine a tasker or macrodroid profile to limit battery charging based on heat.

      • MalReynolds@slrpnk.netEnglish
        1·
        5 hours ago

        Tasker and gOS don’t play very well together, you’ll need to run (sandboxed) GPlay etc (Tasker is pretty overzealous with DRM, PowerAmp, MoonReader for example let you just authorize it once and then you can rip out GPlay and it’s fine, I don’t mind paying for good software, I just don’t want google) which I don’t on my main profile, but I suspect you’re right. These days I don’t program on my phone (save for a bit of python in Termux), I’d rather VPN to my home network and code on a real computer. If it gets me even two years extra battery life it’ll pay for itself.

        Does Tasker literally have charge control these days (I’ll assume it has the sensor)? If so it’d make a good, more versatile solution for tinkerers (but probably at least 30% the cost or more give the module buying monetization craziness compared to a set and forget chargie).