Hello everyone!
This question has been bugging me for a while and I'm really interested in getting to the answer. I'm in a possession of an android eink reader, been using it for a some time ,and while i'm generally happy with the battery life, when i use it as a tablet/mobile with wifi and even sometimes bluetooth (mostly browsing and opening pages with a lot of animations and dare i say it even watching videos) my poor battery has a hard time dealing and the percentage goes down fast.
From my knowledge generic lithium ion batteries after around 500ish full charge/discharge cycles show noticeable degrading. So for combating this phenomenon an idea came up to me, in which i will do most of the cpu/einkrefresh intensive processes while connected to a charger.
With this i hope that my device will use the power from the power cable instead of the battery.
But here lies the problem, i don't know if tablets/einks are designed to function in that way, or using them while they are charging would only drain the battery even if they are connected to an outside power source resulting in even bigger battery cycle usage.
Since most of the electronics (tablets/laptops/phones/handheld videoconsoles) allow you for an increased performance while charging my theory is probably correct but i'll leave the final answer to the experts here.
Theoretically you could argue that with plugging and unplugging or rough handling and treatment i might damage the power port which will render my device moot, but i'm already covered on this front since i plan to use a magnetic charging cable with a plug and put it on a tablet stand.
Something other i noticed is when you are charging and using electronic devices simultaneously if the power consumption is bigger then the ability of the charger then the battery will start to get used and even negative discharge while still connected to the charger! But this is a most extreme of cases i doubt i'll ever encounter this(benchmarking or 100% cpu usage for long periods) . What about the produced heat? I really don't think think it's anykind of a factor but i've been wrong before.
What do you guys think?
Is this a legitimate way for me to increase the effective hours i can use my device while saving battery cycles so i can use them on reading addictive books
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P.S:
I'm sorry if this is
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