Android 16.2.1 for Teracube 2e 1st Batch Zirconia (SN: 2020)

Generally, you want to stay between 20 and 80-90% charge on Lithium cells to prevent dendrite formation, which rapidly degrades the cell.

That being said, most cells are rated at about 1,000 cycles or so. A cycle is any time the chemistry is forced to reverse and store a charge vs discharge. So, be it a full charge of 1.5ish hours or ten seconds on a charger before you pull it off, that’s a cycle.

Light users consume 1-2 cycles a day, or 3+ for heavier users, so 1-3 year life is not abnormal.

Like Maymne recommended, Accubattery is incredibly good for figuring out cell health by watching your charge/discharge cycles and patterns, reported charge/discharge rate, estimated vs actual runtimes, etc. A few days of using that should help you suss out if the cell has degraded or not.

Common mistake in understanding battery specs. The manufacturer refers to “full cycles” which means going from zero to 100%. So every other charge/discharge cycle has to be converted to this metric (only 3 year battery life would be hilarious). There are indeed some other factors benefitting battery life or vice-versa but we’re talking negative effects after 5-10 years.

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Has anyone tried updating from Android 13 (specifically 13.1.1) all the way to Android 16 (looks like 16.2.1) in a single step? Or should I go in order 13 > 14 > 15 > 16?

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Its doable but no assurance of data moving safely

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It worked! The upgrade from 13 > 16 went well. I think the only problem right now is the Gmail app is not updating for some reason. I rebooted a few times and tried to do the update a few times, but it still fails. The other apps didn’t have any issues updating though.

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Can you disable/re-enable it to reset it and force an udpate from the Store?