Chargie. A USB device to control charging of phones

There is an equivalent software solution for rooted Android phones:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;f-droid.org&#x2F;en&#x2F;packages&#x2F;mattecarra.accapp&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;f-droid.org&#x2F;en&#x2F;packages&#x2F;mattecarra.accapp&#x2F;</a><p>The Chargie will certainly be useful for the many people who don&#x27;t want to&#x2F;can&#x27;t root their phones. But it&#x27;s also sad that one needs an extra piece of hardware for something that the phone can technically already accomplish on its own.

I&#x27;ve adopted a different solution - use an old charger. I have a seemingly endless supply of them sitting around. They were never powerful enough to begin with, so they charge many times slower than modern chargers.<p>This is ideal for over night charging for me. From a nearly empty battery, it charger my phone to about 95% during a normal night. If I need to top off, I throw it on the quick charger while I get ready for the day.

Looks like a pretty decent solution for the average person, I like it.<p>My OnePlus 7 Pro has a feature that&#x27;s supposed to limit charging based on your usage habits, but in reality it never works and always charges to 100%, and you can&#x27;t configure it manually for some reason.<p>I ended up using a wifi plug with home assistant to turn off the charger when my phone hits 80%.<p>The biggest downside is android is not smart enough to realize this is a full charge, and the battery stats never reset until I do a charge to 100%.

My phone (stock Android) has this built in.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;support.google.com&#x2F;pixelphone&#x2F;answer&#x2F;6090612?hl=en#zippy=%2Ccharge-steadily-overnight-pixel-later" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;support.google.com&#x2F;pixelphone&#x2F;answer&#x2F;6090612?hl=en#z...</a>

Nice, but mechanically it&#x27;s far from an ideal design, a dongle in a dongle. I&#x27;d buy the USB-C version anyway. It would have been better if it was built insude a wall or 12V socket adapter. A safe way to use it is with an USB extender.

this type of thing is built into a newer Lenovo tablet I have.