Leaving the house every morning with a charged phone is essential in my daily life and I know that I am not alone in this situation. This is why so many of us charge it overnight, which although in the past was harmful to the phone, is no longer possible thanks to adaptive load.
The bottom line is that if you have a 100% battery and it’s always plugged in and charging, its degradation increases. However, adaptive charging doesn’t always come into play: with this trick using adaptive charging and the clock you will extend the life of your phone’s battery.
Brief Notes on Adaptive Loading
What is adaptive loading? A function born exclusively for the Pixel but already widespread in the rest of phones from Android 12 (although perhaps with a different name) and which intelligently and personalized doses the phone’s charge to avoid at all costs that your device remains permanently at 100% charge (when it finishes charging and is still plugged in), which accelerates its degradation.
How Adaptive Charging Works is as follows: adaptive charging is coordinated with the time we set the alarm to optimize energy delivery. Thus, the phone charges until it reaches 80%, an optimal charge figure for its conservation, and reserves the last boost of energy just before the alarm rings. The goal is to reach 100% upon waking and unplugging.
Once its operation has been clarified, the question arises: if adaptive charging is coordinated with waking up, What happens when you don’t set the alarm? For example, on weekends. With this trick, you can benefit from adaptive charging without the alarm ringing, interrupting your peaceful sleep on Saturdays and Sundays (obviously, as long as your phone has this feature)
How to charge your phone with adaptive charging and a silent alarm
You probably already know how to set an alarm on your phone, but it doesn’t hurt to reiterate: enter the Clock app and tap “+”. Now choose the time when you think the phone should stop charging. Then give it a name and agree to complete the process.
In our case we chose 11 a.m., we named it ‘End of loading’, we activated it and chose the days on which it will come into action.
Now that the alarm is set, the problem is that we don’t want it to wake us up. SO It’s time to shut him up. Tap the musical note icon under ‘Set the alarm‘ and in ‘alarm sound‘, choose silence and go back to confirm. Also turn off vibration.
To stop the alarm after one minute, tap the three dots in the right corner and tap ‘Settings‘ > ‘Mute later‘, choose a minute.
Now let’s get back to ‘Settings‘ and enter the following route: ‘Applications‘ > ‘Clock‘ > ‘Notifications‘and then uncheck’Missed alarms‘Yes’Repeated alarms‘. This way you will only see the alarm for the first minute and silently, but there will be no trace of subsequent notifications that you missed the alarm.
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