Two features I would really still like to have in stock Android:
* shortcut from off to recording video, immediately (no clicking around the camera app)
* stop charging battery at 80% setting (no heuristics, AI, predictive BS).
* shortcut from off to recording video, immediately (no clicking around the camera app)
* stop charging battery at 80% setting (no heuristics, AI, predictive BS).
Most Android phones will let you open the camera app with a double tap of the power button when locked, then you have to start recording manually, so it's a two step process. Sony has a dedicated camera button that opens the camera and can be configured to either take a photo or start recording immediately: https://sony-xperia-l.xphonehelp.com/en-us/camera/using-the-... (under Quick launch)
> * stop charging battery at 80% setting (no heuristics, AI, predictive BS).
Sony has that under their Battery care, you can set a custom stop percentage.
On the lock screen, the camera app is by default there, you can just swipe up, and if the last mode was video, then it's video again
And under More Battery Settings, there's an option for "Protect battery", which limits maximum charge to 85%
> stop charging battery at 80%
...if you don't mind?
Charging from 80% to 100% puts more strain on the battery than charging from 60% to 80%, even though it's an addition of 20% each time.
So let's say you use about 40% of your battery daily, and charge from 60% to 100% every day, and that drops your total capacity by 10% each year. You'll have 6 years before your battery won't last a whole day.
If instead that +40% charge was going between 40% and 80%, the reduced strain might mean you only lose 5% of the total capacity each year. That would get you 8 years before your battery won't last a whole day.
Getting your battery to last longer like this also means that a year or two in, if there's a day you expect to need the full capacity, you can just turn off the limit for that day and your battery will last longer than it would have if you never limited it.