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 😅
I charge my phone at work …
Keeping Lithium-ion batteries at 100% charge will reduce their lifespan. They want to live in the 40-80% range. I use an app that notifies me when my phone has charged to 80%, so that I can unplug it. It may be overkill, but I plan to use this phone for 9 more years or so.
Both iphone and androids have an OS option to stop charging at 85 though - I keep it on all the time unless I’m going to need that extra bit of juice
9 more years?? I’ve gotten almost 6 years out of my Oneplus 5T and I’ve been ecstatic about it. It’s literally lasted 3 times longer than any phone I’ve had before it
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.
I think that was true like… 10+ years ago, but battery and power management tech have advanced so that’s no longer necessesary. I think running full cycles on your battery is actually bad for it now, I set mine to stop charging when it hits 85% to preserve battery health.
Sounds stressful constantly worrying about battery life, plopping it on a wireless charger before bed is the way to go.
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
That was true a long time ago when NiCad batteries were around. But, since they had the problems you described, they’re not around any more, and phones generally all use lithium-ion batteries which don’t have this issue.
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.
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
Because I try to charge my phone when I am in the office, as much as possible. There are no small savings in my book :D
Not necessarily. Many phones will charge more slowly during the night if you set a morning alarm. You could be wearing down you battery when you charge at work.
when i see people’s phones constantly at, like, 12%, it drives me crazy.
I wfh and charge during work
I just fall asleep while watching a yt video of something and the phone is still in my hand.
I genuinely don’t understand how this works for so many people. When i watch something, I watch it and wont sleep until i make the concious decision to stop paying attention and close my eyes. Same with books or anything really. Maybe music works
ehhhhh, its a heavy sleeper thing for me I think. I usually don’t make the conscious decision of falling asleep, I just lay in bed until I just pass out. My brain just gives up and disconnects. I’m a heavy sleeper, and I need like 30 minutes minimum between opening my eyes in the morning and actually getting out of bed.
I’m also watching streaming services too and it happens a lot to me that I’m watching a series in bed, I fall sleep, and wake up to realize I watched many chapters of the series so I gotta watch them again later, this time for real.
I WISH I could make the conscious decision to sleep. How does THAT work?
Thats not how I meant it. The concious decision to stop engaging with stuff and close my eyes. No human can just decide to sleep and pass out.
Yeah yeah someone’s gonna akshewally me but nah.
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You just described my entire life. We’re probably best friends now.
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I have a wireless charger on my desk, pretty much almost every day I already have 100% when going to bed
Because i charge it before i go to sleep?
I just turn it off, and it generally need to recharge in the next day afternoon.
Same thing with my girlfriend. I even got a charger and a cable just for her exclusive use but she keeps unplugging my phone because “it has more charge than mine”. Which, fair, but like??? It didn’t have to be this way??
I suck at sleeping so when I feel like I could conk out I seize the opportunity and go for it. Plugging in my phone is part of my bedtime ritual, so I trick my brain into not going into high gear to resist shutting down by not charging at night. You think I’m kidding, it’s a battle every day.
Try melatonin.
Melatonin is not just great for falling but also for staying asleep. I’m so happy I found this…
I have a wireless charging stand at work, so my phone is nearly 70% charged when I go to bed. No real point to me in having extra clutter on my nightstand.
On the weekends, I’ll charge my phone on the kitchen counter while making breakfast for the kids.
