| 30 Nov 2023 |
 Joao | I would be keeping the phone plugged in to a charger or a usb-c hub with an Ethernet port and a zigbee dongle or the usb port of an old router | 11:57:04 |
 malte | Lithium batteries don't like being charged to 100% all the time, and they also don't like heat... best case, it will age faster, worst case, it might swell or break | 12:24:21 |
| malte | As a stopgap, I think the hardware supports charge limits, I'd at least set those to ~50% or so | 12:24:54 |
| Joao | Actually I've been meaning to ask about inhibiting charging, I have a powerbank case on my OP6 and I'd imagine keeping the built in battery at 100% all the time is not good for it | 13:17:12 |
| Joao | Are the charge limits available through /sys/class/power_supply ? | 13:20:28 |
 caleb | @Joao not really, you can set the CURRENT_NOW to 0 which should stop charging, but I haven't implemented support for limiting the max charge explicitly | 14:05:13 |
|  Neil changed their profile picture. | 14:19:11 |
| Joao | slightly related follow up, would the phone be able to power just from USB, with no battery? | 15:19:36 |
 danct12 | yooooooooooooooooo caleb | 15:24:33 |
 klrtk ⎇ | In reply to@malte:hklas.de
Lithium batteries don't like being charged to 100% all the time, and they also don't like heat... best case, it will age faster, worst case, it might swell or break mine did :3 | 15:27:02 |
| klrtk ⎇ | I had to resort to supplying power directly | 15:27:51 |
| klrtk ⎇ | In reply to@telegram_211962460:t2bot.io
slightly related follow up, would the phone be able to power just from USB, with no battery? probably not | 15:29:16 |
| klrtk ⎇ | I had to solder wires to the old battery protection board on my Poco F1 | 15:29:56 |
 duckyondc | 
Download PXL_20231129_180643925.png | 15:30:10 |
| duckyondc | I did this nightmare but it's an older phone | 15:30:11 |
| duckyondc | that works btw | 15:30:11 |
| duckyondc | but it already had a removable battery to begin with | 15:30:17 |
| duckyondc | so that made my job easier | 15:30:19 |
| klrtk ⎇ | and even then it took me a few tries to get it to not crash because of voltage drops | 15:31:03 |
| malte | In reply to @klrtk:fawx.news
I had to solder wires to the old battery protection board on my Poco F1 Same, I did this to an old phone I use as a tan generator for online banking | 15:31:26 |
| malte | It helps to put a big capacitor close to the "battery" | 15:31:47 |
| malte | But the soldering is ugly | 15:31:54 |
| klrtk ⎇ | In reply to@klrtk:fawx.news
and even then it took me a few tries to get it to not crash because of voltage drops I had to up the voltage a bit to 4.5V, but couldn't go straight to 5V because the protection board didn't like it (that's another pitfall, you might need to drop the voltage) | 15:32:47 |
| klrtk ⎇ | I should actually add a capacitor there since it still crashes under some circumstances, but I'm lazy | 15:33:38 |
| malte | I put a large diode in series with the 5V, that drops it to ~4.4 or so | 15:35:19 |
| klrtk ⎇ | same | 15:43:14 |
| Joao | like, is there a compatible(ish) battery? (I don't care if the phone ends up with a humpback, I feel like it's unnaturally thin anyway | 15:46:21 |
| Joao | on a related subject, would it be possible to print a backplate for the op6 and get a larger battery? | 15:45:37 |
| 1 Dec 2023 |
 Malte | Well... Since you are printing a new backplate anyway, you could put two 18650 in parallel in there.. | 00:04:45 |
|  Pan joined the room. | 20:36:02 |
