The article only tests whether the batteries get hot. High electrical loads, both charge and discharge can also degrade batteries directly.
I’ve been setting limits with ACCA for years on my Pixel 4A because its battery is difficult to replace. I didn’t expect to keep it for five years, but there isn’t a new phone I would like better.
My standard limit is 60% charge and 500mA charge rate. Sometimes I increase the limit to 80% or the charge rate to 1000mA for convenience. I rarely allow 100% or the full 3000mA charge rate, and it’s set to pause charging in response to temperature.
I agree with the idea of properly owning your device, but its pretty rare I need root access and it’s not all that hard for me to enable it if I truly needed it. Turns out graphene has an option built in to limit charging to 80% and I use slow chargers already so I actually don’t need it here either.
There are pretty solid security reasons to keep it locked down. It’s an attack vector that allows easily superceding the otherwise highest permissions on your device.
The article only tests whether the batteries get hot. High electrical loads, both charge and discharge can also degrade batteries directly.
I’ve been setting limits with ACCA for years on my Pixel 4A because its battery is difficult to replace. I didn’t expect to keep it for five years, but there isn’t a new phone I would like better.
My standard limit is 60% charge and 500mA charge rate. Sometimes I increase the limit to 80% or the charge rate to 1000mA for convenience. I rarely allow 100% or the full 3000mA charge rate, and it’s set to pause charging in response to temperature.
Damn that app needs root access. Great idea though
I insist on having root on principle; if I don’t, the device isn’t really mine.
In a practical sense though, ACCA is probably my biggest use case for it. I could work around most everything else.
I agree with the idea of properly owning your device, but its pretty rare I need root access and it’s not all that hard for me to enable it if I truly needed it. Turns out graphene has an option built in to limit charging to 80% and I use slow chargers already so I actually don’t need it here either.
There are pretty solid security reasons to keep it locked down. It’s an attack vector that allows easily superceding the otherwise highest permissions on your device.
It makes my phone just as secure or insecure as my PC. I’m good with that.
If I was at higher risk of being directly targeted for attacks, I’d probably rethink that.