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Root Wall charger with SBC kernel

slyd

slyd

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If the SBC kernel slowly charges the battery to 100% does that mean a wall charger should not be used?
 
syldietsch said:
If the SBC kernel slowly charges the battery to 100% does that mean a wall charger should not be used?
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If you mean a wall charger where you take the battery out to charge it, then not really. They would both be doing the same thing.
If you mean the stock charger that plugs into the phone, then yes you can still use it.
 
If I understand, the SBC kernel such as Agressive Freedom slowly charges the battery to 100 percent. If I use a wall charger (where I take the battery out), the battery is disconnected from the phone so the kernel has nothing to do with charging the phone. If I have an SBC kernel, should I only charge the battery while in the phone to let the kernel do it's thing or does the wall charger also slowly charge to 100 percent?
 
syldietsch said:
If I understand, the SBC kernel such as Agressive Freedom slowly charges the battery to 100 percent. If I use a wall charger (where I take the battery out), the battery is disconnected from the phone so the kernel has nothing to do with charging the phone. If I have an SBC kernel, should I only charge the battery while in the phone to let the kernel do it's thing or does the wall charger also slowly charge to 100 percent?
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Why are you taking the battery out? It should still be in the phone and the charger plugged from the phone to a wall outlet

Assuming your in the US..... IDK how it works other places
 
I'm often in a place where I can't plug my phone in for the battery to charge. I have a spare battery, so I just swap it out and charge the one I take out in a wall charger.
 
I guess I just haven't been aware of a wall charger that doesn't use the battery in the phone.

You are however corrent in your statement that if the battery is charging outside of the phone then SBC wouldnt help.

Also, be aware that aggressive freedom is not an SBC kernel. It is an undervolting kernel, but not SBC. SBC is only available for AOSP ROMS
 
ok. thanks. can't wait to try only charging thru the phone since I am getting over a day charging in the wall charger...
 
A little more on non SBC vs SBC from another thread...

Normal kernals will charge your battery up to 100% (when the light turns green), but lithium ion batteries hate to be at 100% so the manufactures made it so that after your battery reaches 100%, it stops charging and drains until it reaches 90%, at which point it starts charging again. Therefore, while charging overnight your battery level is constantly bouncing between 90 & 100%. When you take your phone off the charger it will still read 100%, but it could actually be anywhere in that range. The quick drop off you see is the displayed % catching up to where the phone actually is.

SBC kernels charge the battery very slowly and keep it at 100%, so when you take it off the charger you are actually at 100% and there is no dropoff as the displayed battery % catches up to actual %


So its not that the phone is holding charge longer, its that is it actually charged more (anywhere between 0-10% depending on when you take it off).






Also, what kernel and ROM are you currently using?
 
ok again thx. I did not know Freedom was not an SBC kernel. So it does not matter if I charge thru a wall charger or my phone. good to know. My rom is Mikg 2.56. battery is 1750.
 
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