• Seasoned_Greetings@lemm.ee
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    7 months ago

    Toward the end of my pixel 5’s life, the battery in it lasted about 10 minutes. The phone itself was 3 years old. It happens.

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      7 months ago

      How?! I’m currently on a five year old phone that lasts all day with its original battery?!

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        7 months ago

        I get the feeling it has to do with how wireless charging works. On a wire, a phone can regulate how quickly it takes charge or whether it does at all. I don’t think phones are capable of that with wireless charging, which is exclusively how I charged my pixel 5 at night.

        So it would get to 100% and stay there for several hours every single night. I didn’t realize it was bad at the time.

        It could always just be that I was unlucky and got a defective battery to begin with. No way to know for sure.