08-18-2022, 05:19 PM
(This post was last modified: 08-18-2022, 05:21 PM by Zebulon Walton.)
I haven't seen a problem charging the battery with the phone turned off. I did it just yesterday - charge level was at 70% and I plugged the phone in and turned it off. Upon turning the phone back on later the battery was at 99% charged. It may not work if the battery is fully discharged but I have an extra battery and an external charger for such an eventuality.
This isn't a mass-market consumer product with a big corporation behind it throwing huge sums of money into development. For myself, having a removable battery and external charger (as well as at least one spare battery) mitigates the problem of charging at 0%. While the Pinephone has some annoying limitations and glitches, overall it's working fine for me as my daily use phone. The big wins that overcome the annoyances is that I don't have to worry about the thing spying on me and I can work with it much as I do with a standard Linux computer.
This isn't a mass-market consumer product with a big corporation behind it throwing huge sums of money into development. For myself, having a removable battery and external charger (as well as at least one spare battery) mitigates the problem of charging at 0%. While the Pinephone has some annoying limitations and glitches, overall it's working fine for me as my daily use phone. The big wins that overcome the annoyances is that I don't have to worry about the thing spying on me and I can work with it much as I do with a standard Linux computer.