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Without jailbreaking, how do I check my iPhone battery capacity and cycle count?

dmk1974

dmk1974

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Not the little % that shows in the upper right of the screen, but rather (like on a MacBook) the mAh remaining on the actual battery? Charge cycle count as well. Thanks!
 
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Batterylogger plus used to be on app store before apple decided to take it down and the dev put it up in Cydia.
So without jailbreaking I don't think it's possible.
Btw reason for Not jailbreaking?
 
I went into iTunes to look and there are so many battery apps that hopefully one of them will do what you want. Or someone has a quick answer here. I don't know if the battery keeps track of charge cycles or not since a charge cycle can be getting down to 75% four times. I suppose mAh could be calculated by the percentage remaining but I assume it would be a rough estimate and it would vary depending on the load on the battery.
 
I'd love to find this stuff out even with a jailbroken phone. I've looked but have never been able to find an app that will do it in Cydia.
 
PNutts said:
I went into iTunes to look and there are so many battery apps that hopefully one of them will do what you want. Or someone has a quick answer here. I don't know if the battery keeps track of charge cycles or not since a charge cycle can be getting down to 75% four times. I suppose mAh could be calculated by the percentage remaining but I assume it would be a rough estimate and it would vary depending on the load on the battery.
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Yep, there are too many of those battery apps out there. :) Some of them display battery cycle count, BUT it counts it from when you install the app itself - they do not rely on any internal iOS counters as many want.
 
I already replied about the app. It's called batterylogger plus. It counts cycles from when it was first charged and not when it was installed..
 
Abs_p said:
I already replied about the app. It's called batterylogger plus. It counts cycles from when it was first charged and not when it was installed..
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And it just does it automatically? I don;t have to turn the app on every time I charge or anything?
 
It keeps running in background. But cycles it counts automatically. Doesn't take any ram or battery. Perfect app tbh :)
 
Like the original poster, I'm interested in getting this info but don't want to jailbreak to do so.

I wonder, is there any desktop application that can read this info from the iphone when connected via USB?
 
Just got batterylogger from Cydia, awesome app!

Are these stats good for my 4S:

Max Capacity - 1290 mAh
Design Capacity - 1430 mAh
Health - 90.21%
Cycle Count - 313 cycles

Is this good?
 
iBackupBot tells me that my iPhone 5 has a design capacity of 1430 and full charge capacity of 1286. I have 169 cycles. Now I need an interpreter...what is the normal degradation of the battery? Is 1286 too low, normal, or good for how many cycles I have?
 
A properly maintained iPhone battery is designed to retain up to 80% of its original capacity at 500 full charge and discharge cycles
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https://www.apple.com/batteries/iphone.html

mike08b said:
iBackupBot tells me that my iPhone 5 has a design capacity of 1430 and full charge capacity of 1286. I have 169 cycles. Now I need an interpreter...what is the normal degradation of the battery? Is 1286 too low, normal, or good for how many cycles I have?
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Your'e at 90% of original capacity, so I would say you're fine.
 
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