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Originally Posted by ottischwenk
Where did you get this long outdated misinformation? Modern batteries have a certain number of total charge cycles and must not be over-discharged.
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You have written it yourself: «Modern batteries have a certain number of total charge cycles».
I wrote «batteries do not like being charged frequently»: n/period vs 2n/period is a frequency to me.
If I have a device connected indoors I plan for the full charge, when I have a power bank outdoors I only cover a fraction of the capacity (mobility: now I can keep it connected, now I have to move and disconnect), and I assume that this will decrease its life, according to what you yourself have written.
I always interpreted that "total charge cycles" as "even partial capacity charge" (not 1-charge cycle = close to full capacity, say 15% to 100%), but I am not sure of it, I could not find the time to really study the matter on the more competent sources and rumors swing from one idea to its contrary.
I admittedly am sometimes not as clear as possible, but there is a tradeoff with how much time I have to spend per post. I check and edit my posts on an average many times, but I do not always have the time to polish.
Anyway, my best source for information about batteries, which I never had the time to study properly, would be batteryuniversity.com
EDIT: it must anyway be noted, that such "number of total charge cycles" must be very high for high quality batteries, because for tethering - for frequent charge and disconnection - I use the original battery which came with the phone: it has become very markedly fattened, but as a battery it still works like a charm after 5 years of "mistreatment".