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Originally Posted by iEatHoney
Im new to this whole rom and kernals thing but what do you mean by "it does trickle charging"?
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Trickle charging - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
It's simply how the phone charges. Normally when a battery reaches 100% charge, it will stop charging and start using the battery until a big enough drop in voltage occurs for it to charge again. SBC kernels on the other hand, keeps the phone charging but what it does is that it will match the amount of power the phone expends with the respective amount of charge.
So at night, when your phone is not being used for anything, it uses 8mA every minute. SBC kernel will charge back those 8mA. Think of it as tug-o-war. At max charge, both sides are pulling equally and thus remains at a constant (in this case actual 100% battery charge).
Normal kernel would wait until the phone used a bit of energy, say 3-5% before it charges again. So in tug-o-war terms, they would gain their 3-5% drain and then you pull it right back up; like a swing going back and forth.
I've seen arguments against using SBC & some claiming it caused a their phone to catch fire, but, I think they must have been doing other things with their phones because all phone batteries have a fail-safe chip to prevent from extreme overcharging OR they were using cheap generic batteries which may not have proper fail-safe circuits installed. Only pics I saw of "melted batteries" have been nothing but cheap generic batteries.
My battery temps at max charge and constant 8mA charging is consistent at 75.5*F and only fluctuates between 75.2*F and 75.7*F. Now I have only reached 100-101* when I overclock at 1.22mhz on performance mode with no throttle down set (meaning I runs at 1.22mhz 100% of the time even in sleep mode). 101* is still well within the safe guidelines.
Hope that helps!