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Question

s8+ charging overnight

May 4, 2017 11:42AM PDT

would this ruin the battery coz i heard it dont

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Here I use the ABC rule.
May 4, 2017 12:12PM PDT

"Always be charging." There are some old ideas still kicking around but a modern device outside of a bad implementation is fine with just leaving it on the charger.

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Battery life
May 4, 2017 5:39PM PDT

Hey, it's true that since we first got the smart phones we hear that it's not okay to keep the battery charging all night because if the battery is 100% the charger should be removed. I don't know if it's true or not but I have an experience with another type of battery which is the one for power wheels. it's a 12-volts battery and I left it charging for days then when we came back it didn't work at all.

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This is untrue.
May 5, 2017 8:37AM PDT

Modern designs stop charging when the battery is full so no need to unplug the charger.

You must be thinking of designs 2 decades ago or a bad design.