FP3 battery mAh

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I got my FP3 this week, bought a cable that charges it (it’s a IF certified cable) and started using it.
So far I can tell that the battery lasts a full day of heavy usage, and a couple of days of normal use.

In the setting menu I see that battery is 3060 mAh, but Ampere (the app I use the o check the effectiveness of the charging cables) tells me it’s 2000 mAh.

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If the battery was 2000 mAh it wouldn’t last that much, not with this screen, so I’m not questioning the real capacity of the battery.
Has anyone found a difference in the battery capacity between the Android setting menu and other apps?

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Well, your battery hasn’t been charged to 100% yet, so maybe the estimate isn’t definite yet? Have you measured the capacity before with a 100% charge?

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Seems more like a recurring theme with Apps trying to give the max. capacity, e.g. here, too …

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Yep, still 2000 mAh.
I guess it’s a problem with Ampere.

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Would it be worthwhile to open an issue with the app developer(s) so they get aware of the problem?

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Since it’s not only Ampere, question is where do the Apps get the 2000 mAh from?
Perhaps somewhere the reporting is wrong in Android?

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I doubt it’s measured. Going by the Ampere page on XDA, it relies on Power profiles for Android. Power profiles for in Android, in turn, needs a configuration file (platform/frameworks/base/core/res/res/xml/power_profile.xml) that specifies a lot of power values, including battery.capacity.

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So does the app just retrieve default data here for a standard Fairphone … 1? (that had a 2000 mAh battery)

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probably the system image on the FP3 is shipped with faulty (FP1 specific / someone forgot to edit/update) profile entries. It wouldn’t affect the low level drivers or how long the phone really lasts, but apps are going to report the wrong value.

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the right battery for Fairphone 3 should be 4000mAh

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I’m curious … why not 5000, 6000 or 10000 mAh :slight_smile: ?

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Because I had a Xiaomi A2 lite with 4000mAh battery, same screen size…2 days of work without problem

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Ok, that makes sense.
But I don’t find the Fairphone 3 battery lacking, in contrast to the Fairphone 2 battery, which was a clear weak point of the phone.

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yes, but also FP2’s battery was ok at the beginning, let see, it can be an upgrade

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