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People are right to worry about the phone's battery. If you want to keep it that long, get a 500mA charger and slow charge it every night and avoid deep discharge.
There is nothing wrong with just replacing the battery after a few years.
Worrying that much about battery health is a pain.
Seriously, life is too short for battery anxiety.
It's pretty cheap too (compared to a new phone).
I thought this was fixed/debunked years ago?
it is. modern Smartphones have Software which prevent damage to the battery
Charging above a certain speed, does degrade the battery faster. Thinking that by slow charging your battery will last any noticeable time longer is where this all falls apart.
Right, which is why the Pixel still charges slow af(25W). It's really because it's a single cell battery, the phones with really high charge speeds are multi cell arrays. Each cell can be individually charged at similar wattage to the pixel but with a much smaller cell size it appears to charge faster. I think the OnePlus is the one that is advertised to charge ridiculously fast, iirc it is a 4 cell array, which is why it can charge at 100W (25W per cell). Technically the same speed as the pixel but you're simply charging 4 smaller batteries at once.
The charge speed to degradation is actually based on the battery capacity. Single cell vs multi cell won't make a difference there. That has to do more with the way the charger is setup.
This combined with adaptive charge would mean you will probably wake up with a dead battery.
Adaptive charging only works with PPS or PD in my experience.
Adaptive charging just charges at full speed until it gets to 80%. It then maintains that level until 2-3 hours before the time the alarm is set for, and then it charges to 100%. A 500ma charger likely wouldn't be able to fully charge the phone while a normal person sleeps (depends on the starting charge level of course), but the worst that adaptive charging wouldn't do anything that would lead to the battery being dead
That would be dumb