Hi,
has anyone an explanation (beside Fairphone wants to sell more batteries) that the Android feature of limiting battery charge to 80% is not available? IMHO this would be a sustainability feature.
I’m doing this manually and after more than 3 years my battery is still good.
Paul
yeah, that would actually be great. I is the only thing I miss on my FP4
I think this problem is connected with the version of Linux kernel. FP will not upgrade the kernel for FP4 as they said it would be enormous amount of work.
A workaround could be an app like AccuBattery. I have good experience with it.
Or ACC if you have root
I’m also using AccuBattery but if I haven’t overlooked something, on a non-rooted phone it only sets an alarm at the desired percentage, right? It still requires a manual unplug, otherwise the phone would keep on charging.
Yes, you have to manual unplug at the desired battery percentage.
ACC is one of the few remaining reasons to keep my rooted. It is definitely not impossible for Fairphone to add such a feature. All that is needed is a service, that just reads and writes to some /sys/class/power_supply/battery/ files (charge_control_limit looks interesting), and an app, that gives configures that service (limits).
It should be pretty easy to make that (as it unlike ACC doesn’t have to run on all sorts of devices).
Afaik Android brings this feature, so they don’t need an extra App