//Watch your battery charge change
And so my current battery obsession continues, although it has been eased by my adoption of Power Manager, which means I’ve been able to ditch the simplistic My Battery Status. I have to say that it will likely see off Battery Graph too.
The reason is clear – you want to know what your current battery power level is but also what things to switch off to prolong what juice you have for as long as possible. A graph of how your battery percentage has changed over time is pretty but not terribly useful, but that’s what Battery Graph gives you.
The set up is fairly simple. It logs the up and downs of your battery on a time-based graph. You can go into Menu and change the view range (anything between 6 hours to 7 days), or change the sample interval (1 or 5 minutes). The other options are to clear data or exit the app.
It seems to work reasonably well although the switch into landscape mode doesn’t – this seems to be an app best/only viewed in portrait. Of course, there’s also the issue that in order to provide its output, Battery Graph has to run in the background, hence using up your battery further. For that reason it’s probably something for battery obsessive, and frankly I’m moving on.
//Battery Graph works fine to create a graphical view of how your battery capacity changes over time, but it’s not particularly useful and is buggy switching into landscape mode too.
App: Battery Graph (Android)
Developer: Morgan H
Price: free
Version reviewed: 11
Requires: System access
Size: 154
Score: 2/5
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I think we have matching battery obsessions. I recently wrote an app for my G1 to upload my battery usage to my server which then graphs the results using RRD. You can see hourly/daily/weekly graphs at https://secure.grepular.com/blog/index.php/2009/03/30/google-phone-battery-usage-graphing/
The graphs on that page are not static. They’re actually updated once every 15 minutes.
Good stuff there Mike. How do you find the thirdparty battery? Am always a bit nervy they will burst into flames or put too much current through the circuitry?