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Old 11-09-2020, 08:36 AM   #1910
davidfor
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Originally Posted by JSWolf View Post
It's not possible to do what you want. You would have to do it manually.
That's the point. It is a feature request. The stop charging at 80% was a popular feature in laptops as a way of extending battery life. I have no idea if it is still done.

The don't charge until it hits 40% is also something that could be done in the charging circuit. All my older laptops did something like this as if you plugged in when the battery was 95% or higher, they did not charge the battery.

I doubt that implementing either of those would be that hard. The issue would be whether the battery charging was purely hardware, or there was some software involved. But, I've expressed my opinion of this method of extending the battery life a few times, so I have no desire to see it implemented.
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