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People who don't charge their phone at night... Why? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 year ago by BreakNeckJim@sh.itjust.works to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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My wife's phone dies every. single. day. and I don't know why she doesn't just charge it at night.

I'm just wondering how people live like this 😅

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[–] sneakyninjapants@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I feel this pain. Wife's battery-powered devices are always in a constant state of dying. Something has convinced her that it's better to let the battery almost! die, then charge it to full, but not leave it plugged in because that will degrade the battery; meaning it never gets charged overnight. I'm sure there's a small kernel of truth in where she learned that, but it's almost a joke at this point when she goes scrambling for her charger when using her phone, tablet, etc. It's painful, but also adorable? I guess. Anyway, it's not a hill I'm willing to die on, so I just let it be and laugh almost everytime it happens.

[–] killall-q@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

She needn't worry about manually optimizing battery wear, and, in fact, the most harmful thing you can do to a battery is to fully deplete it frequently.

Educate her about built-in optimized battery charging. iPhones and some Androids have it.

[–] entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 year ago

This. My wife and I have that setting turned on on our Samsung phones. Mine is 3 years old and I still get all-day battery

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