I was just doing random stuff on my phone and went to click a button near the top right of the screen, and was mildly horrified to see “1%”, so I immediately put it into the charger, where the phone promptly started showing “0%” for the next ~30 seconds. The phone never died.

Has this happened to any of you?

  • SuperSpruce@lemmy.zipOP
    12·
    5 days ago

    I don’t like doing that because it wears the battery. Better to have slightly inaccurate percentages than to actively make the long term situation worse

    • infeeeee@lemm.ee
      4·
      5 days ago

      1 up-down cycle doesn’t wear the battery, negligible. It would only count if you would do this every day. It’s recommended to calibrate a new battery

    • LilB0kChoy@lemm.ee
      21·
      5 days ago

      I was under the impression that’s not how LiIon batteries work. Was it a NiCad or some older type?

      • davidgro@lemmy.world
        1·
        5 days ago

        I think they are referencing how Li-ion batteries just generally have a limited number of charge cycles, so they don’t want to waste a whole one.

        • LilB0kChoy@lemm.ee
          1·
          5 days ago

          That’s why I asked. I knew about the cycles but I’m not aware of it causing any additional wear. I thought maybe there were new findings recently. I’ll have to go look myself, just to satisfy my curiosity.