Chargie promises to prolong the quality of your phone’s battery life.
Never heard of the tool, but by the sound of it, it extends your battery life by letting you not charge to 100% (e.g. only charge to 80%).
That’s real. Doing that will prolong the life of your battery.
Should you pay $25 for a tool that will do that? Well, if you’re on Android 12 there should be an option in the battery settings to limit charging to 85% which gives you most of the benefit.
If you’re not on Android 12 but have a rooted phone, you can get a free app that does the same thing.
If protecting the battery is important to you, you don’t have a rooted phone (and don’t want to root it), and don’t have Android 12, then as far as I can tell from reviews, Chargie does do what it says.
If you’re on older phone that is before Android 12, it’s probably a few years old and you already charged it to 100% several hundred times.
Maybe chargie won’t really help that much then.
Doing that will prolong the life of your battery.
Why? What is the difference between charging just upto 80% and 100%?
Because the battery is less stressed when it is in percentages near 50% than if it is in percentages near 100% or 0% AFAIK.
I use Advanced charging controller to set charge rate and capacity thresholds. Limiting both (but especially capacity) will absolutely extend the service life of the battery. I limit it to 60% in normal use, which extends service life greatly and also have presets for 80% and 100%.
ACC requires root access. This device accomplishes the same goal without it using external hardware.
Hard to say. I thought most modern Android phones have charge management in software now.
I’m very reluctant to plug my phone into random USB-C devices though, you just don’t know what’s on these things.
If your phone can’t do charge control on it’s own, Chargie is totally legit: I have 8 of them - As and Cs - and they work great.
Snakeoil.
The fact that some people are saying “maybe” or “it might” means there is enough uncertainty out there to get a few suckers to buy this shit.
Got one when I got my Samsung Fold 3. I liked smart charging on my old OnePlus but Samsung doesn’t have that… Only way is to limit it to 85% or charge to full 100%. And I rather use full 100% of my battery because I use it a lot.
Last time I checked my battery health was still “good” after 2 years of use (via Samsung diagnostic tool).
I’ve set my chargie charge to 85% and then recharge only when battery drops 10% or more. And at 5:00 it charges once to 100% so I have my full battery at morning
Couple of times in last two years it hasn’t charged up to 100% (stopped to 85%). Don’t know why, but it hasn’t been huge issue.
Don’t know if charge helps with battery, but at least it doesn’t make it worse 🤷
Samsung does have the ability to stop charging at 85%
Yep, as I said, only way is to limit it to 85%, but I want to charge full 100%. So that’s where chargie comes in. It only charges to 100% once and shuts down charging.
