In this guide, we will show you a nifty method through which you could check the battery health on your device running Android 14. The fourteenth iteration of the OS is still in its infancy stage and we are still being greeted with new, intriguing, and hidden functionalities every other day. The latest to make its way comes from tipster @MishaalRehman who has just unearthed a hidden system API that allows you to check the current battery health of your Android device.
However, in its current state, you cannot make full use of this API unless you have administrative privileges, which is either possible on a rooted device or using a privileged app like Shizuku on a non-rooted device. Moreover, this API has still not been baked into the Settings UI so we will have to use an open-source app that would be able to interact with this API.
Talking about the details that this app is able to extract, you get the usual battery health, but apart from that, it could also unearth the charge cycles and the charging policy. The rest of the information such as the manufacturing date and first usage date is hidden by default with a warning that those data might be incorrect.
And that was indeed the case. So until and unless this API reaches the stage of performance stability, it’s better that you don’t give much weight to that information. So keeping that aside, let’s make you aware of the steps to check the battery health on your device running Android 14.
How to Check Battery Health on Android 14
- To begin with, download, install, and set up Shizuku on your device.
- Then download and install the open-source Batt app on your device.
- Now launch Batt and tap on Let’s Go. You’ll get a Shizuku prompt, tap Allow all the time.
- You could now check out the current battery health level at the top.
- To get more [might be incorrect] information, tap on Show.
- It will bring up the Manufacturing Date and First Usage Date.
That’s it. These were the steps to check the battery health on your device running the latest Android 14. The API is still in its unpolished state, so take this data [especially the Manufacturing and First Usage Date] with a pinch of salt. We might expect much more concern data from this API either when the OS reaches the stable state or even with Android 15. As and when that happens, we will update this guide accordingly. So stay tuned!
