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Not charging my old phone to 100%, rather to 85% or 90% has helped with battery longevity immensely. After almost 5 years in use, accubattery still shows 80% battery health, and even if that's not accurate, it still lasts quite a while. The SD625 that phone had was very sluggish though, so in the end I still replaced it
I used to do that, but it was a chore to keep monitoring my battery life. I wish there were a "charge phone to 80% and stop" option.
My samsung has the feature built in, but on that old phone I rooted and installed Advanced Charge Controller. (Not feasible for most people i know)
I don't know why Google hasn't put this feature directly into Android. It's honestly one of the biggest pushes away from Pixel devices for me and it's absolutely silly.
There are apps you can install to manage it for you on android, automatically cutting off charging when a given percentage is reached.
...huh, i wish i knew that earlier. I'm gonna search for it now.
Pretty sure this is root only. Normal apps don't have access to the charge controller and I've never seen an app that claims to do this without root.
Samsung phones let you restrict the battery percentage to 85 percent. I think Apple does the same now.