[sillycross]

According to the paper, the leak occurs when the battery is close to full (>95%). In that case, since the battery is almost full, the power drained from the charger reflects the concurrent power being consumed by the device.

I initially thought this is easily fixable (for example, by always request full power), but then I realized it isn't, since the extra power would then have to be dissipated as heat, which is a bad cellphone UX as well.

[k_sze]

And then the heat might become a new source of leak, given precise enough instruments.

[Scoundreller]

They’re already like 50% efficient with the inefficient 50% largely being the phone acting like an inductive pan and heating up, so what’s a bit more heat.