![]() System Monitor ( free, Pro) is one of my favorite apps for, um, monitoring Android’s system. Check Your Active CPU Frequencies with System Monitor Now, with that out of the way, let’s dig in to how to really get a better idea of what’s going on with your battery, and what you can do about it when something goes wrong. And no one should ever use a task killer on Android. That’s really a terrible idea, because these apps are effectively just glorified task killers. Basically, they operate under the old-school thinking that background apps are chewing through your battery, so they just kill them. We’ve all seen those awful “optimization” apps that promise to improve battery life, but you should stay far away from those. I can't make much of the information now that I have it though it doesn't show battery percentage used.Before we get into the details, though, let’s talk about one thing you shouldn’t do to your battery. Okay, I just re-entered all the commands into ADB, and wakelock is now working. So what did you mean by "just had to reinstall"? What did you reinstall? Well, I uninstalled the app, and now I've got to do all the adb again. How would I go about removing those permissions and commands from my phone? I enabled them, but I still get prompted to enable them.ĭo you mean you uninstalled Battery Guru and reinstalled it, and it's fixed?Īll the ADB modifications and commands will still be there, so I won't have to go through that process again.Īnd on that thought, say I did want to remove the battery Guru. Hi, I am having the same issue with wakelocks. TL DR: if you want to view wakelocks and possibly have a more accurate battery health estimate, go for Battery Guru. I don't remember the exact values, but I do remember AccuBattery used less battery, albeit by a very small difference. As we all know though, battery health calculations are just estimates, so I wouldn't give this part much thought.įinally, when I had both apps installed, I was using BBS to check on how much battery they both used. However when I had both apps installed, for comparison, after a few days battery health indications were pretty close, with Battery Gury reporting 75% health and AccuBattery reporting 78%. I do think that AccuBattery uses a different system, where it counts even charges by 20% (example 40% to 60%), possibly making it less accurate. Something else I like is that Battery Gury calculates battery health based on specific conditions (when battery is charged from 15% to 100%) and it also gives you notifications when the charging limit is reached to more accurately calculate battery health: the notification will ring a while -after- reaching 100% so the calculation will be more accurate. Granted, Battery Gury is pretty basic in this aspect (it's showing partial and kernel wakelocks but not wakelock alarms), but it does it's job. That's two apps, whereas Battery Gudy provided the same functionality within the same app. More info here.ĪccuBattery doesn't have that feature, so when I used it I had to resort to BetterBatteryStats to view wakelocks. I used to like Accubattery a bit more mostly due to it's design, presentation and all, but now I would suggest Battery Gury for one main reason: it allows you to view wakelocks, so you can possibly identify apps which drain your battery (you can enable it with root or with ADB commands). Honestly it's probably worthwhile to try all 3 apps and see which you prefer (unless you have a phone with Android 13, in which case don't bother with GSam). The presentation of per-app battery usage is definitely better. Some aspects of the UI also seem simpler/cleaner in Accubattery. This may vary based on the device type and/or Android version. I installed Accubattery again today, and so far it looks like it is using less battery than Battery Guru. Battery Guru has ads or a subscription, neither of which I'm fond of. One thing I do prefer about Accubattery is that is has a one time payment option to unlock Pro features. However, it hasn't been updated for almost a year, and doesn't work properly on Android 13. I provides good stats, and uses very little battery to do so. GSam Battery Monitor is also a good alternative if you don't need battery health estimation and have Android 12 or older. Battery Guru is in active development and is updated frequently. It also hasn't been updated for over a year. Accubattery used more battery while running in the background. ![]() The battery health estimations were within a few percent of each other. ![]() I had both installed on my phone for a while, so I could compare them directly.
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