If you have used your phone for a while, you will need to know how to check Android’s battery health. You can slowly deplete a battery’s capacity to hold power. This means that you will need to charge it more often and may be left without power if your phone suddenly turns off.
There are many ways to check the health of your smartphone’s battery.
This basic method will only inform you of how much power you have, and you can force-close any apps that are not in use. Depending on your phone brand, you can also access more detailed information by installing specialist apps.
We have several ways for you to find out more about the battery health of your Android phone. We hope you will use one or more of the following methods to determine how long your phone’s battery life is.
How do you check the battery health of your Android smartphone?
These options might have different wording, but they should allow you to check the battery activity on any Android device. The detail level will vary depending on the manufacturer of your phone.
- Select “Battery” in the Settings app. You should find this option in the top menu. However, you can search for it by scrolling down the page.
- If you aren’t sure what you want, go to the Battery section.
- This section shows you your Battery status for the past 24 hours and the apps that have used the most power.
- To force an app’s closing or disable it altogether, tap the icon in this menu. The next screen will show the options to disable, force quit, or select an optimization setting.
You may see more information on some phones than what we have shown you with the Pixel 4a5G. Phones running MIUI (e.g. Redmi, Xiaomi and POCO) will display the current temperature of your battery. Although this is something you should monitor regularly, any temperature lower than 50 degrees Celsius is perfectly normal.
Use a dial code to check the battery health of your Android smartphone.
Hidden Diagnostic Menus
are available on Android phones. You can access them by entering sequences of numbers and hashes into their Phone app’s dial pad. You can use a variety of these to take you to different menus. But we’ll be focusing on the battery-
Don’t worry if your phone doesn’t show battery information.
- Open the Phone app and open your phone’s keypad. Enter the code *#*#4636 #*#*.
After entering the last” “text, your phone will open a menu. - Next, look for the heading “Battery Information.” If it does not appear, you will be locked out of this method. If it appears, you can select it to display charge level, temperature, and health information.
We tested the dial code method on all three devices, including the OnePlus, Google, and Xiaomi. However, none of them provided the battery information that we required. When the code was entered, this menu didn’t appear on a Samsung Galaxy A525G. For a solution, see below.
How do you check the Android battery health of a Samsung smartphone?
Although the code failed, Samsung offers its battery check via its Samsung Members App, which is automatically installed on all Samsung phones.
- Open Samsung Members, and click the “Get Help!” tab at the bottom.
- At the top of the new menu, choose the “Interactive check” option.
- Select “Battery” from the list. This option has been checked on our phone, as we verified the step before taking a screenshot. Yours might not look exactly the same.
- You can now see how the Samsung Members app rates your smartphone’s battery life.
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