Hey everyone, I’ve fully switched to using the Librem 5 as my daily driver and love it, but the battery management has been a bit of a project for me. Leaving it plugged in all day doesn’t sit right with me when the battery stays fully charged and keeps drawing power. So, I’ve been experimenting wi…

You may be interested in controlling temperature and CPU/GPU frequencies: [image] Librem 5, hotspot and temperature It is possible to create/modify trips/triggers for CPU/GPU thermal throttling: [image] It's a burning phone The CPU is set to start thermal throttling at 50°C - first by limiti…

Do you do the thing with multiple batteries? I have 5 batteries for my Librem 5 so I almost never charge the unit itself – whenever I need it, I just put a full battery in off of one of the chargers. However, if I need to battery swap while the device is still on, for a “fast charge” as I joking ca…

[image] alivellani: maintaining battery health by avoiding short, unnecessary charge cycles. I have never heard this could be a problem. Can you provide more background on this?

[image] Dlonk: Do you do the thing with multiple batteries? I have 5 batteries for my Librem 5 so I almost never charge the unit itself – whenever I need it, I just put a full battery in off of one of the chargers. However, if I need to battery swap while the device is still on, for a “fast cha…

[image] zks1: I have never heard this could be a problem. Can you provide more background on this? The concern with short, unnecessary charge cycles mostly applies to situations where they happen frequently, like topping off a battery from 90% to 100% multiple times a day. While lithium-ion b…

Will definitely give this a trial run.

Good to know! Thanks! I will give the script a try as well.

That would be an interesting task. Did you have something in mind that should be done when the mobile heats up? or just prevent it all together? Because I do blv that there would be less heating if the battery is not being charged.

I am reminded about all of the power optimizations Apple has done over the years to improve battery life on their product lines, with underclocking being the most notable practice before the ARM silicon transition.

[image] alivellani: /sys/class/leds/chg_en/brightness Am I wrong to think that this only controls the LED charging light and not the actual charging functionality?

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