Maximum battery charge level for extended plugged in play sessions

[Toole]

A mode that enables a 50-80% maximum battery charge level to make the battery last longer for people who play plugged in a lot.

[SirPing]

Yes

[Shuff]

Now that the official dock is out this feature is more salient than ever. The Steam Deck really needs a battery limit feature. Unfortunately, it probably is going to require adding this to the firmware.

[toP]

+1 to this feature. As someone whose planning on using the Steam Deck on an arcade cab, I plan on having it docked 90% of the time so I would like the battery to not be 100% at all times. I've had MANY laptop batteries go bad just by using it like a desktop plugged in.

The problem is many manufacturers don't even include this option and the battery inevitable goes bad. We don't want that here if we can help it

[wontonnnn]

+1

[StatiC]

+1. Most laptops support this to extend the LiPo battery life when always plugged in. For people who dock their steam deck, that is even more important. No since it letting the steam deck charge to 100% when it is plugged in almost all of the time. It is well known for LiPo battery chemistry that storage at 50% and keeping the battery below 80% extends the lifespan of the battery. It is not good to stay around 100%. Most laptops support 50% or 75 to 80% for a maximum charge level as a feature. I would really like to see that for the steam deck also.

[puthre]

I would prefer to have this feature as well (my laptop does it, my phone does it, I expected the steam deck to have it).

[Bobkyou]

+1
Given what a headache it looks like to replace the SD's battery, I'd like to get as many years out of it as I can.

[Riossben]

👍

[AlvaroGZ]

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A mode that enables a 50-80% maximum battery charge level to make the battery last longer for people who play plugged in a lot.

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[Zeno]

Really need this. All my rooted phones have it. Asus, Lenovo and other laptop brands have it. Please add implementation so that TLP supports battery charge limit.
I have control everywhere else, just not here.

[Zika]

+1
no need to have an implemented option, would be happy even with a "do-it-under-your-own-risk" walkaround to setup that % charge limit, this option is a must have after setting up the Dock.

[Zhom B Killer]

+1 from me. I would like to have a way to set it to any % I want, like if I could set it to 70% or something. I have that on in my Surface Pro 8 at 50% all the time. I also implemented that in Shortcuts to cut my smart plug to stop charging if it reaches 70% on my iPhone. It is not only saving cycles to prolong the battery capacity, but also good for environment. Without doing 0.01% of my effort every day, I could contribute to environment, it's worth it.

Also I am on the other side of the group, I bought the Steam Deck mainly as a workstation, and play games occassionally. I use it for work for over 10 hours a day so probably play no more than 3 hours per week and I found it sufficient for my work, so I guess it could replace my Surface Pro 8 with eGPU 3070.

Therefore, I would really love this feature.

[flashbagman]

+1
I also am requesting Valve to add a user settable option to the Steam Deck OS allowing a charge percentage limit to be configured on the Steam Deck battery. This should work for both Desktop and game mode. The thing is KDE has this option in Settings under power management \ Advanced in other distros... it is 'missing' in the Steam OS implementation. I am curious why this was removed or not included from the initial release? ?Sell more Batteries maybe?

[berni.boern]

Has anyone tried to install TLP in Desktop mode?

There is TLPUI in the Linux store but it's missing TLP.

[WEGAMME]

+1 I use my steam deck 90% of the time with the steam deck dock as small desktop pc, I'd love to see this feature.