I sometimes don’t both charging my phone overnight because I know I can get it to at least 60-70% while I’m in the shower. Have y’all not heard of fast chargers?
Don’t fast chargers reduce the lifespan of batteries?
yeah, bu most folks aren’t charging 3x a day. they charge once a day or two days.
and nobody is keeping phones for more than 2-3 years.
fast charging’s convenience far outways it’s cost. i have a 3 year old phone and i’ve lost 30%+ capacity, but it means shit because I can charge the phone up to 90% in like 20m, so now I Just charge once a day instead of every two.
My current phone is an iPhone 12 mini. Six years old, and I won’t replace it till the battery is too old to hold a charge.
I wish I can flex an old phone like that. Seen an iPhone 8 daily driven in the wild, while my current oldest phone (note 8) lasts an hour or 2.
good for you. you’re a weirdo.
https://www.sellcell.com/blog/how-often-do-people-upgrade-their-phone/
40% of people do 2-3 years, so this weirdo is in the majority.
I literally kept my last phone from September 2019 to October 2025.
I also never heard that fast charging reduces battery life, I constantly discharge and connect the charger probably 30 to 40 times a day.
I sure wish that this knowledge was universal.
I believe optimum charging for battery lifespan is charging to around 80% and only discharging down to 20%. What you’re doing is basically the worst thing possible.
But a phone is a device. It works for you, not the other way around. Replacing a phone battery isn’t terribly hard or expensive.
Not really. Worst thing is running the cell dead or cooking it. Modern lithium cells are much less prone to damage at full capacity (because it’s not really full, your phone’s charge controller is using intelligent management for 4-5% of it) and it doesn’t really matter how often you cycle charging on/off either with modern anode configurations. You’re correct on the usage part though. Tools wear out. Just how it goes.
Thats why I like phones with large batteries. My 15,000mah phone is currently at 22%, but that’ll last me the rest of the day easy.
Are you the one with the phone the size of a network switch which shipped with a rootkit installed from factory? I saw a post about that recently.
People were like “why?” And the response was “the battery lasts a week on one charge”
What phone has that large of a battery? Is it pretty large in general? My oneplus 12 has 5400mah and I thought that was pretty decent.
Is that fake wood on the side? A woody phone, lol.
That is a Nokia P-30. I believe it’s something more akin to pleather or rubber, though it might just be a slightly different type of plastic. It’s ridged to provide better grip, since these early cell phones were quite heavy.
The image is grabbed from this ebay listing
I think it might be for copper for charging. Does look kinda like wood paneling though.
No, that appears to be a solar panel
Hell yeah.
Ulefone Armor 26 Ultra. Its in the category of “rugged phones” Weighs a full pound. But has every bell and whistle you can think of. Headphone jack, waterproof, dual sim card, Infrared blaster so you can use it as a universal remote, 15,000 mah battery (a little over 3 days of normal use) with reverse charging (I can charge my wifes iphone with it), massive speaker, and theres an antenna you can screw in to make it into a walkee talkee, also its about half the price of any mainstream phone.
It uses Mediatek processor instead of snapdragon, so its not top of the line, but definitely more than capable. Its also made by a chinese company. So you can add that to the list of people spying on your phone usage. Also they get security updates, but no version updates. So whatever version of Android it comes with will be the only one itll ever use. My model is a couple years old. Newest one replaces the walkee talkee for a projector.
I loved my Power Armor 13. Now I’m using the Unihertz 8849 Tank 4 Pro. The 11,000 mah battery makes me kinda sad though. But the projector is fucking amazing.
Lots of cool products. As someone who doesn’t care so much about weight, one of these would be my next phone, if not for the spying.
That is fucking crazy. Do you carry that on you all day? I bet you get so many questions and weird looks
I have an Armor 24 with 22Ah battery.
BUT, some warning. Nearly 5 months ago, Kaspersky found malware baked into firmware of many Chinese devices: https://securelist.com/keenadu-android-backdoor/118913/
Unfortunately, they did not provide device list, but my Armor 24 was also affected. libandroid_runtime.so didn’t trigger the detection, but QuickStep APK (launcher and navigation) was flagged when checking with VirusTotal.
There was an OTA update which removed this, though as usual with Ulefone, the updates will bring new bugs. Thankfully this got fixed before the Android 15 update which I heard is quite buggy.600 gram! But what a beast!
That makes sense. I have side eyed those type of phones but I really need something that fits in my pockets better, and I hate not getting version updates. Security updates are nice but once a version gets too old those stop too.
To be fair my pixel got the update to android 17 and I didn’t notice a single thing that changed. Then again they get 7 years of version updates so the start vs the eol version will be a much bigger gap.
The reason I skipped past those rugged phones fast was not the mayor version updates, but the fact that security updates end way too early. A quick lookup says they don’t even publish eol dates which is jikes.
I had a phone that I loved, Cosmo Communicator, and it never received a version update. The version shipped was already one behind, and after a few years apps started to not work on the thing. The Linux dual boot was also kind of jank, so its mostly a paperweight for me now. I don’t care as much about os changes as I do about app updates for some things.
That machine would have been so awesome if it had been handled properly. I was so disappointed when I saw that it was going nowhere.
The hardware was decent, but the company behind it seemed to want to ship a new device every 9 months instead of supporting something long term. It would have been nice if they were a little more open so that the community could do something with it.
My phone finally lasts almost 2 full days with heavy use. They can pry it from my dead hands.
I uninstalled or disabled everything recommended in Canta (using Shizuku) and now my phone battery lasts three days.
You have to switch the phone to airplane mode for the flight so it’s useless anyway.
You only really need to do it for take of and landing.
But you still don’t have data or GPS or anything and a lot of flights don’t have wifi so pretty useless unless you have offline games or downloaded shows/movies/audiobooks.
You have GPS, it literally only receives so it can’t affect flight instruments.
Idk I’ve never been able to get GPS on my phone to work on a plane always. I think consumer devices have it disabled over certain speeds/altitudes so people can’t make home made rockets and shit.
While that is true, commercial flights aren’t going over those limits (they’re to prevent ICBMs). I used it on my last flight without issue and could see how close to my destination I was, how high the plane was and how fast we were going.
Aside from, y’know, downloaded stuff. That said my phone lasts so much longer in airplane mode, it’s ridiculous.
If this is on the flight, it might be because the phone isn’t expending energy constantly trying to connect to networks when you are high up in the air or over the ocean. It makes a pretty big difference
Yup. Also when abroad in areas without roaming. That constant looking for signal drops it so fast. (Maybe this can be a TIL for someone with low percentage like me…)
The last few flights I was on I didn’t notice them telling people to put phones in airplane mode, in contrast to years ago when they made a big deal about it. During landing they said to put laptops away but that small electronic devices could still be used, so if someone wanted to be on their phone the whole time nothing’s stopping them and no one is checking if it is in airplane mode. Although it would be pointless for most of the flight anyway because there is no signal. If you wanted to use the in-flight wifi, you can turn wifi on while airplane mode is on and that will work.
Eh, I fly a lot and never switch it off
That’s just government propaganda.
Nah. You know how you hear that noise through speakers of phones trying to connect through things? “Dukadukadukadrrrrr”
Yeah, that still floods the headsets as EMI and if it’s not that, it’s cuts and static noises.
It’s fucking infuriating. You gotta re-request comms off tower and that pisses off all the other comms traffic and AT. Especially on landing as everyone turns their phones on early. Sometimes it’s like trying to listen to your car’s navigation but suddenly you have three screamin toddlers in the back seat.
Don’t do it.
Sounds like a shitty plane that needs better emi shielding.
Sounds like that’s the pilot’s problem not mine.
If the pilot misses an instruction it could very quickly become your problem too.
That’s just more government propaganda.
To serve what end?
I couldn’t tell you that I’m not the government.
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