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wireless chargers

Started Aug 3, 2020 | Discussions thread
teddoman
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Re: wireless chargers

Jeff Peterman wrote:

But that is within the limits of what is provided by the hardware. For example, the hardware may only let the battery charge to 80% of full capacity and turn off the phone when it gets to 10% capacity, and the app will see that 80% as 100%, and the 10% as zero, so it will set the window much narrower than it needs to be.

I can see a good battery app having some value, but mainly for identifying battery drain rates so that you can tell what really eats up the battery.

The app shows Design Capacity (which seems to be the official manufacturer's stated capacity) and Estimated Capacity (which is probably their estimated actual capacity based on battery health).

I don't really understand myself what the discharge voltage curve implies about battery health, but it doesn't seem to be based on whether the phone is charging to its Design Capacity. Their method seems to be based on measuring the nature of the battery drain during power usage.

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