BetterBatteryStats
A high battery drain is often a limiting factor for a great user experience.With BetterBatteryStats you can analyse the behavior of your phone, find applications causing the phone to drain battery while it is supposed to be asleep and measure the effect of corrective actions:
- Spot drainers based on detailed information about the root cause
- measure the effect of actions to reduce drain, following a simple method
- detect changes in the awake/sleep profile and quickly find the causes (rogue apps)
In other words BetterBatteryStats helps you gettings the best experience with your smartphone.
Support:Please don't use the rating system for support. In case of issues or for any question or suggestion please contact me by e-mail or use the contact information from the about box.
If you experience problems with your superuser app keeping asking to grant su rights don't blame BetterBatterStats but try another superuser app instead.
Permissions:
- android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE is used only for writing dumps to the SD. In case you don't need that feature please feel free to revoke that permission. It won't have any side effect besides disabling that feature
- android.permission.BATTERY_STATS is obviously the permission to access the internal statistics and can not be revoked without making the app unusable (from Kitkat on BBS will have to be installed as a system app to access this permission)
- android.permission.DUMP from Kitkat on BBS can be installed as a system app to access this permission. It is required to access dumpsys without root for a better performance
- android.permission.ACCESS_WIFI_STATE is required since Android Marshmallow in order to access stats. In pre-6.0 version this permission can be revoked
- android.permission.ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE This permission can be revoked
- android.permission.RECEIVE_BOOT_COMPLETED is required for cleaning references. Revoking this permission may affect the results of kernel wakelocks and custom reference until new references were saved
- android.permission.READ_PHONE_STATE is required to detect when the phone was turned on/off in order to store references for advanced diagnosis
- android.permission.DEVICE_POWER is required to detect when the phone is disconnected from the charger and store the corresponding kernel wakelock reference. Revoking this permission will lead to losing "since unplugged"
- android.permission.BLUETOOTH is required to fix a bug where the communication to the batteryinfo service stops working
- android.permission.READ_LOGS is required to allow logcat dumps to be saved. You can revoke this right and will lose only the ability to save logcats
- android.permission.GET_TASKS is required to read the list of running tasks (ps)
- android.permission.WAKE_LOCK is required to hold a wakelock in order to save references when the screen goes offBetterBatteryStats is open source so you can inspect/review/contribute and submit issues or feature requests. Please check the about dialog for further details.
Category : Tools
Reviews (26)
It's useful, but I think it lacks some stuff. For example I am unable to know how much time each app has been running exactly, both in the foreground and in the background. The built-in statistics in my Galaxy M21 aren't good for that either, as the times don't usually match with the actual time I've been using the apps. For example stock Android 10 tells you how much time each app was used, but I haven't got this because the M21 is not stock Android.
This is hands-down the best and most efficient app for resolving battery life issues. It tells you absolutely everything you could possibly want to know about things that affect your phone's battery life. You do have to do a little bit of reading up if you aren't already intimately familiar with how Android phones try to conserve battery, but it is well worth it. Helped me resolve a problem I tried to solve with half a dozen different kernel governors in one day of use.
Paid for the app but not working. Raw statistics are empty except for Alarm and CPU states and charts are empty. I got a message "batteryinfo service cannot be contacted". I configured the app for English but still the interface is localized. Maybe that some problems are related to the device - Samsung A50, Pie - but I give 1 star because the behaviour of the app looks buggy and above all the developer has not bothered to answer to my support request.
One of my all-time favorite apps. This single-handedly saved me. My unrooted stock Moto G5 Plus kept showing very high Keep Awake times for "Android OS" and "Google Play"...not very helpful. BBS allowed me to not have to root (and reset) my phone and see exactly what was causing the wakelocks that were spiking my CPU and draining battery. Cannot recommend this app enough.
Broken - only shows an error screen! Installed on a galaxy S20, installed fine but when you start the app it goes straight to an error screen and doesn't allow you to progress. Same as others have experienced, wish I had read them other reviews before paying for this app :(
Staple. A necessary app in the arsenal of tools for a rooted phone. I've used it for so long, taking it out only when I need it and then freezing it. "Something about this rom(?) is draining battery, break out the BBS." I just realized I never reviewed it. Great app!!! Been using it for years.
Haven't even used this app yet and it's getting 1 star. Just trying to OPEN the app crashed my phone twice, and it refused to open at all for about 10 minutes (sat on a blank white screen, crashed my launcher, locked my phone up and sent me to the lockscreen). Finally after reboots and force closes I got the app to request root, which it then locked up and I couldn't allow root through the magisk dialogue so it auto-denied after the timer ran out, and I had to go manually enable root in the magisk app, at which point it will FINALLY open properly. This app has some really serious issues and is an awful experience to start up.
Longtime user. It's been years since the app has stopped from working without errors on a rooted phone. The author doesn't respond, so it seems that BBS is no longer supported.
Security exception: grantRuntimePermission: For non rooted user you have to enable in developer options both USB debugging AND USB debugging (Security Settings) [at least with MIUI - Xiaomi Devices] to be able to give permission. This APP doesn't need a review!!! :D
App does not work. Provided extra permissions which also worked, but App is not collecting any information. Tried to contact the developer directly, but no reply. Now I am stuck with something which does not work. (Samsung S10e)
Paid for the app but not able to use it, even after last update most of the features are not working on my note 10 (showing no stats have been collected yet). Unfortunately, developer is not replying to emails as well.
Seems to have stopped working after some time, showing incorrect battery stats, also says 0 seconds since unplugged all the time (which is false).
Hi, I have an un rooted Huawei P20 Pro, have done the adb grant thingy. However it's showing since unplugged 7 days. Well it's 7 days since I granted with adb. On my galaxy s7 edge it was fine it reset automatically after each charge unplugged. Any help please?
Terrible program. Does not work at Android 10 Samsung device. Even after giving all adb permissions, program works till first reboot. Then just writes: "fall back" to "since boot". Author refuses to fix it or refund money. Do not buy it, tooking the bait, be careful
Helped me find the app that was draining my battery by using the "partial wakelocks" stats. I have a Moto G6 Play with Android 8 (non-rooted). I enabled the required permissions with ADB.
This is garbage. After running it and granting superuser access it just throws some error saying selected from and to reference could not be loaded. Refunded.
hey guys. is there anyway you can authorize a redund? if not it's cool since I screwed up. just didn't know I needed to root it or do other things to make it run. I just saw the app recommended and downloaded it. Figured something like that would be higer up in the description.
Waste of time & money. Have spent about 3 hours trying to get some meaningful data out of this app. It seems you need extra software and specific skills to do it.
Downloaded the app because of battery drain. It only opened to a screen full of coding and red highlights.
i bought this app 2-3 days ago and since then it has always been stuck with no stats collected yet, I've given it the proper permissions through adb. Samsung Galaxy S10e
The app is out-dated, I just bought it in the morning for try it and see if it will help me with the wake locks. If u want to support the dev is okay for pay for this app, but now he don't update uploads updates, except for beta users
Excellent app! Unfortunately, watchdog stopped working in latest version. Could you please fix this?
Did not work on my samsung galaxy s10 after purchasing just showed error I would like a refund. I never was able to use the app and spent money on it
Refunded due to permissions related error. Granted permissions from the ui but according the log I'm required to manually use the terminal and use adb to grant permission.
Seems to require root permissions with some confusing statement about non-root. Help menu goes to a 404 web page.
Great app! Finally allowed me to quickly find the problematic app that was draining my phone super fast (it was the backup feature of Google). The app didn't work straight out, it required setting some permissions and changing some android parameter values (using adb), but with the help of the error messages displayed by the app and some googling, I managed to fix it and then it worked nicely. The online help on how to use the app and interpret the data is useful.