OnePlus announces new Optimized Charging feature to save battery health

You don’t need to be a genius to know about OnePlus’s Warp Charge technology, formerly known as Dash Charge. At first sight, it is little more than a rebrand from OPPO’s SuperVOOC charging technology, but it is outstanding nonetheless. Unlike USB-PD and other fast charging methods that increase voltage, Warp Charge increases the current of the charger, and it allows for insanely fast charging speeds while still maintaining the safety of slower charging methods and keeping overheating at bay whenever possible. The concern of battery health degrading over time, though, remains, and OnePlus is launching a new feature to help improve this factor as well.

“Optimized Charging,” as OnePlus calls it, has already been available since the OxygenOS Open Beta 7 on the OnePlus 7 series and is made for overnight charging: it will charge your battery up to 80% before temporarily stopping. Then, it will take information from your alarms or your calendar (your next alarm or the first event in your calendar) in order to continue charging 100 minutes beforehand so it’s ready to go by the time you wake up. Over time, it will also be able to learn your usual wake-up time by itself thanks to machine learning so it’s ready right before you take it off the charger.

This feature might seem slightly unnecessary: after all, the battery already charges insanely fast, so there’s not even a need for overnight charging. However, some people still do, and keeping it constantly connected and at 100% during the whole night can take a toll on your battery life and even your battery itself over time. OnePlus hopes that this feature will somehow mitigate this. This feature is now available for the OnePlus 7 series users currently rolled into the OxygenOS Open Beta, and it is expected to roll out to other OnePlus devices sooner or later.

---

Source: OnePlus

The post OnePlus announces new Optimized Charging feature to save battery health appeared first on xda-developers.

from xda-developers https://ift.tt/37IG3oI
via IFTTT