How To Check Battery Health On Android Phones

Have you ever wondered how to check the battery health of your android device? Stick with us; we would show you. Every phone battery health is very important and needs to be monitored. However, unlike iPhones, android devices do not show battery health in device settings.

This makes it a bit trickier to monitor your battery’s health. However, in the settings of some android phones, you can get insights about which applications affect your battery life the most. While this is helpful, it still does not give adequate details about your battery’s health.

While Google does not reveal your Android’s battery’s health, luckily, there are other methods to monitor the health. This can be done through third-party apps and dialler codes, which are also very effective. Let us take a look at how to use these methods to monitor your android battery’s health.

How to Check Battery Health on Android

Follow the procedures below to check the state of the health of your Android phone battery.

Using Dialler Codes

Not many people are aware, but Android has some hidden codes meant for developers or service staff but can also be used to check battery health. All you need to do is punch the codes on your phone, which will give you access to a variety of information, including your battery health. Sadly, this method doesn’t work with every android phone.

When used on a Pixel 4 running with android 10, it revealed every other information about the phone except the battery data. However, it works well with a wide range of other android devices. Follow the steps below to check your battery’s health using dialler codes.

1. Launch the dialer app on your android phone and dial *#*#4636#*#*
2. This will take you to a testing menu, then select ‘phone information’. This will reveal a lot of information about your android phone.
3. Select the battery info option, and this will reveal information about your charging status, power source, charge level, voltage, and temperature.

If this method does not work for you, then you need to use the next method discussed below.

Use AccuBattery

Although there are tons of other third-party apps available for checking android battery health, AccuBattery is one of the best-rated apps, and it is the most recommended. In addition to checking the health of your battery, AccuBattery also gives you a lot of other information about the battery of your phone. Using this application is effective and easy to use; just follow the steps highlighted below.

1. To begin with, you need to download AccuBattery for Android here. It has both free and premium versions.
2. After installing the app, it will give you a quick overview of how the app works, explaining some important details about your battery’s health. It is very important you pay attention to this.
3. Following this, you will see a page that allows you to set your charge slider which would notify you once your battery reaches the percentage you have set. The slider is already set at 80 by default, which is universally advised as the best limit to charge your battery, so it is probably best to leave it that way.
4. Afterward, the app runs a quick calibration and then detects your phone’s stock battery capacity. You will be able to see your usual battery stats which you would find in the battery usage part of the settings.
5. You can then proceed to check the health tab, which will give you information on your battery’s health as well as the current capacity and the original capacity. Although you might not see much information at the time, the information would be available over time.

This is because Android would not provide historical information about your battery usage to the app. Hence, because of the nature of the app, you need it to remain installed while you use your phone normally for a couple of days before it begins to gather adequate information about your battery. The longer it stays on your phone, the more accurate the information it provides gets.

Now that you have fully set up the application, you need to aim to unplug your phone immediately. It reaches 80 percent or whatever percentage you set in the slider. The app has an alarm that will alert you once it gets to that percentage. Also, note that you can always adjust this percentage in the ‘charging tab’ icon on the app.

Over time, the app will continue to track your battery wear and capacity, which you can monitor occasionally.

Conclusion

Before the advent of smartphones, battery health was not so important. Now, most smartphones need to be charged every day, which has an adverse effect on the health of the battery.  Hence there is a need to continuously monitor the health of your battery occasionally.

With Android, it is a little complicated to monitor your battery’s health because the information is not available in your settings. However, if you follow any of the methods we have provided above, it will do the trick.