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If you’ve ever bought a new laptop promising “all-day battery life” only to watch it degrade to half-day performance within a year, you’re not alone. This is one of the most common frustrations we hear from Chargie users.

The culprit? The way most of us charge our laptops is literally killing their batteries.

The Problem Nobody Talks About

Here’s what happens to most laptops: you plug them in at your desk, they charge to 100%, and then they just sit there. Fully charged. All day. Every day. Sometimes for weeks or months at a time if you’re working from home.

Your laptop battery doesn’t like this. At all.

Lithium-ion batteries—the kind in virtually every laptop made in the last decade—experience significant stress when kept at 100% charge for extended periods. It’s like forcing your car’s engine to redline continuously. Sure, it can handle it for a while, but you’re shaving years off its life.

The science backs this up. Battery researchers have found that keeping a lithium-ion cell at full charge, especially in warm conditions, accelerates internal degradation. We’re talking about losing 20% or more of your battery capacity per year just from this “always plugged in” lifestyle.

Chargie V1.1.0 for iOS is ready for download in the App Store!

New functionality was introduced and lots of bug fixes.

Revamped Hardware Limiter menu.

Now it has icons and more interactive menus that are pretty self-explanatory. Suggestions are welcome.

Power Injection capability

This new function is something no phone has: you can basically inject a certain amount of energy measured in watt-hours, just like in electric cars. So if you have a battery that you know has 3Wh you can inject 2.5Wh and it will get protected. The function was supported in firmware starting with units made in November.

Watt-Hours counting

You can use this to see how much energy goes into your battery. Just use the menu to reset the counter and see how much it gains from 20% to 80%, for example. Then you can use that figure to charge it. This function is still experimental, please report if it’s very useful. Any suggestions are welcome to [email protected] or on the group.

Charging Scheduler

Use this to manually schedule the phone’s charging process. Attention, you have to input the starting time, not the time you want you battery topped up at.

Improved physical connection detection

Some wireless charging pads had big delays in turning on and off, this has been addressed + many other smaller issues reported by users in the past few months.

Again, this project is evolving due to your continuous input. We wholeheartedly receive any constructive ideas and bug reports.

Thank you all!

Ovidiu & team