• JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl
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    1 year ago

    I have an xperia 5ii. Only charged to 80% of capacity daily for its entire existence (may 2021 when I got it)

    Accubattery on 100% of the time, 151 charge cycles. Battery at 75%… sony might have decent tech but their physical batteries suck ass. My horrible HMD Nokia’s battery lasted much longer with many more charge cycles.

    Plus the whole only 2 years of any updates thing…

    Want to love sony phones, love the camera software and niche features, but they just completely drop the ball.

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      1 year ago

      Have you tried fully discharging it? It depends on the specific battery management system in your phone, but my Pixel 7a doesn’t take being kept at 30-60% battery too well and loses track of the actual charge level. AccuBattery was reporting about 80% capacity on it after two months.

      Then I decided to let it fully discharge and found out that the thing just refuses to die at 1% - that last percent took me about the same time to discharge as going from 20% to 1%. And now I’m back to 98% capacity reported by AccuBattery and the actual battery life has improved noticeably.

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        1 year ago

        Interesting, I will try this. I have only let it die like twice. Restart regularily, but not letting it die. I don’t use my phone enough maybe 😅 SoT still isn’t bad though at a reported 6 hours from accubattery. 80% of what it was at start.