OPPO ColorOS 11 gets a handy feature, namely Battery Guard

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One of the most useful features added by OPPO to the ColorOS 11 firmware protects the handset's battery by pausing the night charging process at 80 percent and restarting in time for the user to wake up with a fully charged smartphone. Sony introduced the same feature as Qnovo Battery Care back in 2016.

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How is it that all Android phones still don't have this? In laptops, HP, Dell and Lenovo have this to prolong life of battery.

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How is it that all Android phones still don't have this? In laptops, HP, Dell and Lenovo have this to prolong life of battery.

Because consumers. Problem is that a) they don't want to complicate it for consumers and b) they're strapped for capacity and don't want to lose any (which would translate into shorter screen on time, not something many consumers would be happy about). And so they have to rely on machine learning and the phone figuring out your charging habits so that it can predict when will you take it off a charger. A much more sophisticated technology compared to simply setting different charging limits. Personally, I would rather have dumb setting of charging limits. But then, I'm not an average consumer. Especially these days with wireless chargers, it's so convenient to just pop it on a charger. At home, in your office, in your car. So, it would be nice if I could set a fairly aggressive charging limit to minimize wear. This sounds like they're focusing on overnight charging. Minimizing the time spent at 100 %. It doesn't sound like it can work for frequent topping up (where the idea would be to not charge to 100 % at all - which might be a step too far for them to do automatically). And you have to be able to deal with irregularities. Again, dumb charging limits all day over this.

Equivalent in the laptop world were people traveling between docking stations. You had one in your home, another in your office. If you didn't lower the charging limits and later went to a conference, you'd find out the battery was shot. Hence why they had the feature. And the typical customer had an IT department to sort it out.