Battery Degrading

[IHateMyTreo]

If you have a device like the 8t with 65w charging, then accubattery is incorrect. These charging speeds are achieved by give having 2 small batteries instead of one big one. Accubattery does not take this into account. It's only recognizing 50% of your battery capacity

Very good to know. That explains why my health readings are about half of the original specs.

 

[Ryano89]

Ah, that's interesting! I wonder why the Accubattery devs haven't accounted for that yet?

I'm not sure honestly. It's not a new concept, you'd think they would have fixed it by now

 

[IHateMyTreo]

I'm not sure honestly. It's not a new concept, you'd think they would have fixed it by now

I sent the AccuBattery devs that very question.

 

[IHateMyTreo]

From the developer of AccuBattery:

"Thank you for your email. For these devices with dual batteries the system is incorrectly reporting only half the charge/discharge current. This means the maximum you will get is half the design capacity so you will need to multiply the mAh estimate by 2 or better yet, change the design capacity so it's half the original value. This means you have to also make the assumption that the two batteries wear down at the same rate but from what we've seen so far this indeed appears to be the case. In the future we will try to automatically identify devices that have this issue and ask users to confirm if this is indeed the situation. We can then automatically do the adjustment for you."

 

[mustang7757]

From the developer of AccuBattery:

"Thank you for your email. For these devices with dual batteries the system is incorrectly reporting only half the charge/discharge current. This means the maximum you will get is half the design capacity so you will need to multiply the mAh estimate by 2 or better yet, change the design capacity so it's half the original value. This means you have to also make the assumption that the two batteries wear down at the same rate but from what we've seen so far this indeed appears to be the case. In the future we will try to automatically identify devices that have this issue and ask users to confirm if this is indeed the situation. We can then automatically do the adjustment for you."

Funny i got a update today for Accubattery

 

[B. Diddy]

From the developer of AccuBattery:

"Thank you for your email. For these devices with dual batteries the system is incorrectly reporting only half the charge/discharge current. This means the maximum you will get is half the design capacity so you will need to multiply the mAh estimate by 2 or better yet, change the design capacity so it's half the original value. This means you have to also make the assumption that the two batteries wear down at the same rate but from what we've seen so far this indeed appears to be the case. In the future we will try to automatically identify devices that have this issue and ask users to confirm if this is indeed the situation. We can then automatically do the adjustment for you."

Nice response! Always good to see a dev being so responsive.