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LiamPowellyesterday at 10:34 AM1 replyview on HN

Pouch batteries straight from distributors might all recommend 4.2V, but what's actually used in phones varies a lot. The Samsung Galaxy S21 for example charges all the way to 4.4V. I don't have a huge sample size to work with, but I have seen a number of recent Samsung batteries degrade alarmingly fast, likely because of this.

According to [1], the S24 has gone all the way up to 4.45V.

[1]: https://old.reddit.com/r/techsupport/comments/1ayqveg/samsun...


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hnuser123456yesterday at 4:03 PM

I was surprised to read the label on a GoPro battery and see it rated to 4.4v or thereabouts.

I used to build quadcopters around 2015, and some of the battery mfgs released "LiHV" batteries, which were supposed to be safe up to 4.35v, however if you actually charged them that high, they would puff up like balloons after only a couple flights. Maybe with the cumulative advancements in the last 10 years, they've been able to push up the max voltage more safely.

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