Hi,
Are there any plans to improve on the current battery charge limiting behaviour?
For example, I noticed that when I limit the charge to a particular percentage, the laptop will discharge the battery until it goes back below the chosen charge threshold.
Instead of doing this, my previous laptop would just not draw power from the battery at all and just run off the mains! The battery would then just discharge at the rate it would if the laptop was switched off (which is very slowly!). This meant that charge cycles happened much more slowly on that laptop - whereas with this one I’m already on 16 after having the laptop only three months, and my capacity has gone down by 4%! For comparison, my old laptop is still at 95% of its original capacity after 4 years (albeit, most of those years were with the laptop being plugged in)!
I’m aware I can always switch off battery usage in my BIOS, but ideally we would be able to do this without rebooting or manual intervention when trying to limit battery charging.
If there are no plans for this, is it something the framework team would consider implementing? I think it would really help to improve the longevity of our batteries.