Chargie promises to prolong the quality of your phone’s battery life.
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.
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.
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.