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dubrowgn / wattz

An Android battery power status bar indicator
MIT License
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Add PLUGGED information. #32

Closed Anonymous2716 closed 7 months ago

Anonymous2716 commented 7 months ago

Such as :

PLUGGED_AC
PLUGGED_USB
PLUGGED_WIRELESS

Is helpful information.

dubrowgn commented 7 months ago

It would be doable, but can you describe your usecase? I previously decided against it because I couldn't come up with a usecase where it wasn't largely redundant info. For example, I already know that it's charging via USB because I physically plugged it into USB.

Anonymous2716 commented 7 months ago

Its more of a trouble shooting issue. For example I was having some issues with the USB port on my phone. sometimes I see its plugged in as USB and other times AC. When it is plugged in as USB its barely charging. Pulls something over 1 Watt at 4 volts. And when over AC it goes up to 6 Watts.

All while plugged into wall. It helps to identify faulty cables too.

dubrowgn commented 7 months ago

Makes sense. I'll take a look when I have some time.

dubrowgn commented 7 months ago

This was added in 0c07292096e42b93cee2b568d27b39e67cd0947e.

dubrowgn commented 7 months ago

This was released in v1.18. You can get it from the releases page, or F-Droid and Play Store should pick it up in the next few days.

Feel free to re-open this issue if the release doesn't resolve your concern.

Anonymous2716 commented 7 months ago

@dubrowgn Nice thanks.

ebbi2017 commented 6 months ago

That's a very nice feature.

I mainly use Wattz to check my aging battery (show voltage while not loading). Because my phone decides to show like 50+ % capacity even when it's battery is at 3.3 V only, f.e., shortly before going off. I tried battery calibration tools, but none did work sadly, so the % stays inaccurate, while the runtime is like 3 hours with screen on still. With Wattz I can see and decide when to shut down manually or load again.

Now it would be nice to have the possibility to show both V and W optionally. I also have different cables, chargers and wanna see if it's loading with 0.5 A or more like 1.8 A, f.e. (which is maximum for my phone). This f.e. is needed in the car / on the bike when navigation is on and the battery drain usually is much higher than loading with the wrong cable (too much resistance, not only length is important! I have many long cables which are better than short ones also) or low amp chargers.

Thx for this great app!