For Root Users
You’ll save yourself some work if you have root access. Since rooting provides additional control over your phone, there is an app to limit charging above the set limit. It’s available in the play store but requires root access.
- Firstly download the app from here.
- After installing, connect your charger at set the Limit charging to the desired limit.
- You can see there will be another slider within the app. the low charge limit setting. If your charge levels fall to the set value, the app will start charging your device.
But this app doesn’t support all mobile phones. Because there are many types of devices and it is not possible to make an app for most of them.
Hence this app uses control files. These files have control information specific to your device. So if one control file doesn’t work, you can switch to another.
To set the control file on your device:
- Tap on the settings icon at the top of the app.
- Under control file data, tap on the control file.
- Select any other file in the list and check if that works.
If you don’t want to use any apps, there are certain custom Roms available that can do this task natively. However, you’ll need to unlock your bootloader and install a custom ROM (if available for your device).
This is a long way, yet its good to have options. For instance, the Havoc OS provides such features natively. If your device is under the supported list of it, you might as well give them a try.
Conclusion
So setting charge limits on your phone will extend the overall life of your battery by reducing charging cycles. This will help to reduce wear in the battery. As you can see, it’s easy to set the control limit if you have root access.
Although if you don’t want to have the risk of rooting your device, the manual option (Accu battery) will be enough.
If you’re really concerned about reducing battery life, then I would say its worth rooting and installing custom ROMs. Isn’t customization the reason you’ve chosen Android in the first place??
