I stopped checking how much battery is left like 10 years ago. I charge every night and thats it. If it gets critically low it notifies my another way.
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Isn't it too late then?
Too late for what, navigate home from the wilderness? I'm either at home, in the car, at someone's house, or between those places 99% of the time. There's going to be a usb-c charger and even if my phone dies it doesn't matter.
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Number on and icon completely off.
Number on
Let's have a vote. I'll make two replies, please DOWNVOTE the one you agree with. The option with the most downvotes wins.
(I'm using downvotes instead of upvotes to make it obvious there's no karma manipulation involved)
Your poll may have backfired - people are downvoting your actual comment instead:-P.
Tbf there's no karma on lemmy so no worries
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Lithium ion batteries cannot super accurately report their own charge so the percentage isn't necessarily digit accurate.
I am also usually just making sure it'll get me to a place I can charge it when I actually need to worry about charge. That doesn't usually require like the difference between say 33% and 26% for me.
I just need to be able to see if I've got like a fifth of battery left or less / more.
Admitedly also with the ADHD if there's a percentage I fixate on it for no reason so it's less annoying for me to have it off.
Same with the battery level in my e-bike. 👀 I know it'll get me to work and back as it always does but not constantly fixating on the remaining battery is impossible.
You can absolutely accurately calculate the percentage of a lithium battery. I do so every day with solar setup I live on. Even after months floating between 20% and 80% the batteries stop charging at 99.5% and would shut off if I hit 0-1%
You just need to use a well calibrated shunt.
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I remember when I switched from a Samsung phone to one of the first pixel phones years ago and being so angry that it did not have an option to add the number. I think the only way back then ended up being in the developer options. That phone somehow just ended up getting into a boot loop only like 4 months after getting it and they didnt respect the warranty. It was provided by work so I didnt care that much since no real loss to me, but ill never forget that impression it left on me and ill never get another pixel or google phone ever again.
Uh pretty sure I've had my number for like 5 years over multiple pixel phones
It was the first one. It was first released in oct 2016 and i remember i just got the samsung note 7 and that was the craziest phone event I've ever seen since it wa an entire recall of that model. Because of that i waited the month till it dropped and ended up getting it swapped for the pixel. It was new and thought it would be better than the galaxy.
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Back in the good old days, the number was next to the battery, and it was bigger. Then they updated the software and shrunk the number down to fit it in the battery.
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Number off, it's peaceful.
I didn't even know there was a number off setting
Default is the best
- No number
- Number appears while peeking notifications
- Full notification shade shows until hh:mm
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Estimating the state of charge on a lithium battery is extremely complicated and difficult. And they stopped showing the numbers earlier because they didn't want you to see how inaccurate they were.
Nowadays, the models are better and more sophisticated, but the tradition continues.
I don't care what the # is. Even floating on tubes down the Saco River, it's irrelevant. Full at start and can go back on charge when we finish.
No number. Clean aesthetics 🤩
Number and icon
I use the number. I can see an argument for decreasing battery anxiety by not having an exact number displayed. It's either low, medium, or high basically using the graphic alone. I can also see how this could make the anxiety worse too though. Without seeing the number you might always think it's low. If you're worried about it anyway, this is probably more likely.
The icon is kinda ugly with the numbers. But I’d rather the info over not.
I think the number gives a false sense of accuracy. Like using fifteen digits of pi to calculate an orbital path even though you system can't model every mass in the system and thus have way higher variance regardless.
I am numbers on, but only because I don't care enough to turn it off.
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