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		KolibriFly 7 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: My iPhone 8 Refuses to Die: Now It's a Solar-Power... It's frustrating that Apple doesn't offer a proper "battery bypass" mode or even let you set charge limits

kccqzy 7 months ago [–]

I don't believe a battery bypass mode is physically feasible, since the user could be charging the phone with a cheap 5V 1A charger, and yet the peak power consumption of an iPhone could very well exceed that.

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