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Originally Posted by compurandom
You've just contradicted yourself. And the rest of this is wrong too.
If you overcycle the battery, you'll reach that 500 cycles much faster.
Also, draining the battery to 50% turns out to be less than half a cycle.
If you can keep the charge between about 40% and 80% you'll get a lot more than double the partial cycles out of it than if you drain it all the way to 5% and then charge to 95% every single time, which will probably end up giving you a lot less than 500 cycles before you start seeing life shortening.
And there are a lot of other bad habits that can damage the battery or severely shorten its life. The fastest way to kill a battery is to leave it in a hot car for a couple of hours. A lot slower way is to drain it to 5% and then leave it uncharged for a couple of months, which will almost certainly kill it permanently.
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I did not contradict myself. You only made my statements appear contradictory because you excised the surrounding context from my post.
To explain it another way, it's true that someone who uses their device heavily and thus is forced to recharge more often will reach 500 cycles more quickly than someone who is a more casual user. Think of it as two cars driving different speeds towards the same destination. They each cover the exact same distance and end up at the exact same place even if one car gets there sooner than the other.
To put it yet another way, "over cycling" will not prematurely shorten battery life even if you reach 500 cycles more quickly than another person.