What did you do with your Ring when it was "Done"?
My Galaxy Ring worked wonderfully for a year until the battery degradation hit suddenly, and overnight my battery life went from one week to one day. Even then, I was ready to charge it as often as needed to keep using it as long as possible. But after a short while of being able to charge it once per day, it stopped being able to make it through the night. I got another week or so out of it by charging it to 100% right before I went to bed, but then at that point it still would not make it through the night. However that is when the problem shifted from being an issue of simple reduced battery lifespan to an issue of the ring now turning-off before the charge reached 0%.
I learned the hard way that the battery degradation is not just about reduced battery life, but also reduced output, even while still "charged". At first, the ring would only turn off at lower charge percentages. Now however, it's to the point where I can charge it to 100% take it off the charger, put it on my finger, and the ring will turn off in 5-10 minutes, before it even depletes below "90%". That means it's no longer useful for the one thing I was still using it for every day, which was as a backup while charging my Watch.
Right now I still have it on the charger, and all it does is spam my phone all day with Wear App notifications, alternating between "Ring fully charged" and "Ring Disconnected". It's no longer useful as a wearable device.
I am considering if I should do a factory reset on the Ring while I still can, or just disconnect it from my phone.
I've been keeping it on the charger for now because at least that keeps it accessible from my phone. Extended-duration full-discharge is the ultimate death-knell for a Lithium-ion battery, so I think that there is a strong possibility that if I kept it off the charger for even a few days, the ring might never actually turn back on again. So if I'm going to do a factory reset or something, I might want to do that first. I'm also holding out a slim hope that perhaps Samsung will offer some kind of trade-in option or even a basic discount for first-gen ring users who purchase a next-gen ring when they are released, and perhaps if my ring still "worked" at that point it would be helpful.
What did you do with yours at the end?