Charging Limit

Albatross

Is there a potential for a charging limit feature to be added to GOS? Samsung, which I came from before moving to GOS, had implemented a charging limit feature in the battery settings area to cap at 85% and I always left that on so I could leave my phone plugged in without the downsides of holding at 100%. Is there anything preventing such a feature in GOS with the Pixel HW?

P.S. I know there have already been plenty of debates about how you should treat your battery, this question isn't about that!

GrapheneOS

Albatross It heavily throttles charging near low and high values.

Graphite

Read this post.

The OS doesn't really control the charging circuitry. The hardware manufacturer would need to do this. This would be upstream for Google to do.

Graphite

It'll be great if/when Pixels can do this in hardware. In the meantime, you have some options:

1) https://chargie.org/
An external USB charge manager. Downside is that you'll need to keep bluetooth on to report the state of charge to the dongle.

2) https://crast.net/68704/let-your-smart-plug-protect-the-mobile-battery-how-to-cut-the-charge-when-it-reaches-80/
Smart Plug using Home Assistant, but pretty much any home automation could do this.

I chose option 2.

brambler

On GOS, I use the BatteryBot Pro app to set an alarm when the battery reaches a certain level. F-droid link: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.darshancomputing.BatteryIndicatorPro/. Github link: https://github.com/darshan-/Battery-Indicator-Pro