Hi guys,
Is it possible to check the real time (live) battery mAh? Sometime battary percentage bar is quiet confusing especially for ppl who have many phones(not me) because different phone have different size of battery and it is very confusing if the battery is enough for his/her day.
If you not understand what i mean "live/real-time battery mAh", you can refer to the screenshot: tinypic.com/r/2i94bww/9
As shown in the red box, miui default security app accually have the function of tracking how much mAh the battery is, however it is not real-time/live and it will be great if anyone can suggest any app that can do this. If there is no app have this function, maybe this is a suggestion to apps developers.
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I remember reading somewhere here that we must change the battery capacity settings in the Battery Widget app (default at 1200) to make it work with the TF but I can't find that post anywhere. Can someone please guide me in the right direction?!
Thanks in advance...
It was in my tips thread and it's about 2/3 the way down the 1st post HERE.
Perfect! That's the one indeed. However, I thought that the Battery Widget app allowed you to manually enter a value for the battery capacity. At least it does on mine. Doesn't it on yours?!
Yes mine does as well.
akarol said:
Perfect! That's the one indeed. However, I thought that the Battery Widget app allowed you to manually enter a value for the battery capacity. At least it does on mine. Doesn't it on yours?!
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Are you asking where you set the capacity? Open battery widget, hit the settings button, then go to Display>Battery Capacity, and set to 6600.
Sorry if I'm teaching you to suck eggs!
Incidentally, does anyone know if there's any way using software to detect the charge amount on the dock?
Hello everyone,
I'm running some tests to see the battery consumption on my Galaxy S i9000. I'm using the gingerbread version of darkys ROM.
Firstly, what do you think of the battery life? In this specific test I used the phone in a very light way, made some messages/calls and read few mails.
Secondly, is it normal to have depressions in the battery chart that display less battery than it shows later? How is it computed? Isn't just some logic level of the voltage battery?
Lastly, in the case of buying another battery, is it worthless to be genuine?
Thanks a lot
Someone close this thread, I double posted it:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=13928515#post13928515
Hi there,
I am hoping that there are some "Battery Monitor Widget" (BMW) users with us, and that you would share your values which BMW is detecting.
As far as I understand and can tell the Transformer does not report measured mAh values and BMW does some estimations and calculations by monitoring over a long time.
After a month or so my TF101G showed an estimated capacity of 23614 mAh ... you get it that I am confused. Therefor I am asking you to post your values, eg. with a screenshot of the "Calibration" page of BWM.
As far as I can tell, nobody has posted these values, at least not @XDA. So this would really be interesting, maybe also for 3c (author of BMW).
Greetings,
- Stephen
"Bump"
Really no one willing to share their battery's capacity as reported by Batter Monitor Widget (BMW)?
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Really no one willing to share their battery's capacity as reported by Batter Monitor Widget (BMW)?
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Hey man, I'm not much of a pro of this widget, i downloaded it yesterday but may I ask, in your Settings-Monitoring-Battery Capacity(mah), what is written there exactly?
Installed it on my Motorola Defy and it work superbly... But in my TF101, it doesn't seemed to show the details I expected.
The battery capacity, what do you enter here? Is the BMW detect the dock battery?
I'd run it over two days but the data shows doesn't seemed to be right, so uninstalled it..
If you have any proper steps or ways to make it work in TF101.. please write here.
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In battery capacity option, you write your battery mah as you know it. I got extended 3500 mah so I wrote 3500 there, measured the mah with the app using the app for a day, it said 4580 mah. Well, there is no way that is right
I'm gonna use the app for some day, see if the measured mah is gonna change.
The app can not read the externals battery, it seems to be totally unaware. It also seems to register any power from the keyboard dock's battery as an external charger.
As the TF101 does not report measured mAh values as other devices do (e.g. my HTC Desire Bravo A8181) it uses estimates from the OS system logs (as far as I understand).
The app's author suggests - at best - a maximum complete discharge/charge cycle for guessing accurate values (maybe it's the other way around: first fully charge, then discharge; or it doesn't matter; but: do no discharge your Li-Ion battery completely as this is known to harm Li-Ion's (e.g. batteryuniversity, dont know their reliability), try at least a charge cycle of 50%)
It took quite some time until my mAh value stabilized at the value of 23614mAh that I got. For about 2 weeks the value was rising and stopped then at 23614mAh.
Yes, as I remember the mAh-value you are asked for at e.g. the first use is an estimation/hypothetical temporary value used for calculations and which will be corrected with the measured/estimated values over time.
The app and it terms are in some cases confusing/unclear without reading the docs which can be found here and are quite enlighting. In general I use this app a lot on my Desire where it measured the battery's capacity with 14xx mAh which is a little more than the expected capacity claimed by HTC (and I treated my battery quite well).
About the capacity of an Asus TF101(G): I left my tablet running under these cirumstances (the first time accidentially, the second time planned):
flight mode on (no 3g, wifi, bluetooth, me telling you just because you can enable the latter two even in flightmode!)
screen set to lowest value
no apps except battery monitor run on purpose (background tasks left untouched)
OS 3.2.1 stock ROM completely untouched (only the OTA which gave me this OS version)
The results of this test:
from 100% battery to 8% battery within 8 hours 20 min
the battery usage screen of Android control panel showed following "distribution" of power:
Screen: 86%
Android OS: 11%
Android System: 3%
no other entries!
My (quick) conclusion of this test is: as Asus promotes this device with about 8 hours of HD video playback (which I expect to be a processor sucking task) on one charge, without keyboard dock, and as other sites with this' tablet reviews report the same, my device underperforms "highly".
(Sorry, I did not start reading the - for sure - existing threads about battery life in this forum, as I "hoped" that a simple comparison of "Battery monitor widget" values would enlighten me. But, for sure I have to dive into these discussions.)
Uploaded images (thumbnails below) may be unreadable and are posted here for your convenience:
http://imgur.com/a/FJ2Xx#2
This is just a personal survey.
Hello, could you please comment the following:
I will be using SoT as basis since it is the most used battery usage reference.
You can also include some details on how you use it.
Best Approx. SoT (Screen-On Time) from 100% to 15% battery
Variant (D820 or D821)
Date Bought
CPU Binning (optional)
My thought is, that battery usage isn't only based on how the user use it, but from the device itself.
I want to conduct this survey to know if what I think is correct.
Thanks a lot!
[Battery Life Help] Troubleshoot battery issues here!
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If you wanna test your theory you need to get a control group of devices. They must all be used in an IDENTICAL manor. This survey won't help you prove a thing other than people use their phones differently. But we already know that don't we.
While @Lethargy does have a point, the goal of this thread is a different one, which is why I'll keep it open.
But please make sure to keep it on topic and don't let it become similar to the already existing thread.
Hey all, I could not find an answer to this anywhere so I figured I would ask here. I have a Samsung Galaxy Note 4 from Sprint (SM-N910P) and I have an extended battery, very specifically the ZeroLemon 10,000mAh battery case for the Note 4.
Now, having a 10k mAh is life at it's finest, really it is. I go 3 days with a single charge. Even under heavy use, I still get ~2 before needing a fill up. As it usually goes with beautiful things though, the personality is the problem, with a rose it's the thorns, and with this beautiful battery, Android is the beast in the shadows.
The original battery that comes with my Note 4 is a 3220 mAh battery, and the battery I am currently using is more than three times larger. My original battery would get to 15% which meant that it would maybe have another hour of low use and then would die. At 15% battery life on the big kahuna of batteries however, 15% can be as much as a full day of normal use for me.
Here is where Android rears its wonderful, ugly head. Artificially imposed feature limitations based on battery percentage. These are things such as no flash on camera, no video recording, no camera use at all, automatic dimming of screen, greyscale mode(truly a horror to behold), etc.
I have not found an answer on the world wide series of tubes which leads me to believe it is a programmed, hard-coded thing, and not a setting to be toggled. Which ultimately (insert drum roll), brings me here. Is there, in the vast wealth of knowledge that is XDADev, a way to disable, nay, ELIMINATE, this annoyance, this... petty guidance giving by Android when it was not asked for?
The answer, hopefully, preferably, etc. would be a ROM that I could slap down upon my device like the mighty Mjolnir* that makes ME the king of my phone's battery life, that gives ME the freedom to use my camera at 1% battery life if I so choose, that would, in theory give my the power of Thor**.
Thanks for any help y'all can give.
*not actually slap it down, I would worry about my screen breaking
**not actually the power of Thor, just limited control of the pixies in my phone battery, lightning bolts scare me
Still haven't found any solutions on my own. Not super code savvy, but I have been digging through the Android source to see if I could find where those limitations are set.
Anyone have ideas or pointers for me?
Also, bump.