[Google Pixel 5 Guides, News, & Discussion] hanni2301:
I'm completely with you guys. I love and live my P5. The P6 of my mom feels so bulky in comparison, more like a brick. I also don't get why there is no political or scientific pressure/argument for lighter phones <150 g instead of 200+ g. It has to be more healthy for our wrists.

In addition I had some experience with battery capacity and aging of it.

If you have root access or able to use some terminal executions (e.g. adb), you can read out your remaining full charge capacity of your Pixel.

These number will give you a scope of what's going on, but will not be accurate.

For my case, I use root to limit max charging state (at 75 %) and shut of below 20 %. Also I can limit the charging current by software. In all day usage I stay between 60 and 50 %, as I have a wireless charger on every desk at work and home.

So long story short. I was getting my battery replaced by Google in a case of warranty (I was getting a entirely new unit as replacement because I shuttered my camera glass/lense.

The bms of the battery counts charging cycles and remaining full charge capacity (see file /sys/class/power_supply/battery/uevent).

All I can say is that this number of remaining capacity (health state) is quite manipulative. Brand new capacity was 4100 mAh with 3 cycles. Now I have 3500 mAh after 218 cycles in 11 month's. If I would charge my P5 now several times to 100 % SOC and drain it to zero, the bms would learn and this count of 3531 mAh would climb again to much more then that.

For long term reasons I will not do several 100-0-100 SOC cycles for you. You all can imagine that it will hurt the lithium cells more than it will help to know the exact figure.

All in all I can ask a friend with a P5 which readouts he will get, he doesn't use this battery charging restrictions.

Btw, if your remaining capacity will drop below 80 % in warranty time, Google will replace your battery for free. Otherwise you can't initiate a changing of battery by yourself at Google, not even for some fees.

But if you really concerned, there are original batteries to order here in Germany, disassembly process is not that hard to do.

In my opinion don't take too much concerns about your battery. A friend of me has a OnePlus 6 since Release (close to 5 years ago) and charges every night to 100 % with a old Sony 7,5 W charger. He is on its original equipped battery and still has enough SOT for 1 day usage and criticises it's battery life some time ago. But as we know, there is no alternative to older, smaller smartphones without glass backside as our P5 oder OP6.

Attachment:

Full charge capacity / charging cycles / date of read

4228 1 14.05.2022

4186 2

4180 2

4178 4

4136 7

4110 10

4115 19 12.06.2022

4035 26 23.06.2022

4039 31 30.06.2022

3981 47 22.07.2022

4006 51 28.07.2022

3531 218 31.03.2023

3623 225 08.04.2023

P.S. I'm still on A11 for design reasons, I don't like the bubble UI of A12+. Where is my usable workspace left? Notifications area and app drawer specially and where would my WiFi on/off toggle switch gone? What was wrong with this dedicated button to get rid of it in A12?

Edit: like I said, I did a single 100%-0%-100% cycle and the bms recognised this in better trained capacity. It jumped from 3531 to 3623 mAh (compare with table above).

So don't take this numbers too serious, as it it the same battery lithium cell and the numbers are all over the place.