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BAM5
New Participant
December 8, 2025
Question

FR: Misc Battery Stuff

This is less about developing software for quest and more of a hardware & OS feature request.

With the numerous battery headstraps in existence, especially those with hot swappable packs, devices spend a lot of time at 100% state-of-charge (SoC). I would like the ability to set the quest up to only charge the internal battery to a defined percentage, the typical 80-90%, just to keep the cells from having the absolute max voltage applied to them constantly.

It would also be nice for a hardware api for battery packs to communicate with the OS informing it of the pack's capabilities (some of which can already be ascertained from usb-pd), and real-time SoC. This would allow for some nice user-facing features such as full battery stats, extended pack depletion alert, etc.

 

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htaylor
htaylor
Community Manager
December 9, 2025

Hey BAM5, 

Thanks for your post! I think this is a really great idea, and it's just the kind of thing our Product team is looking to see in the Feedback Center. We also recently released a voting board there so you can get input and support from other community members and get more regular updates on the status of your suggestion. 

I'll keep this post here so you can use it to file your request and link to the Feedback Center post once you've submitted it if you'd like! 

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