BetterBatteryStatsRelease Notes

What you should know about references

BetterBatteryStats does not collect data in the background but uses references saved at specific times (on specific events):

  • Boot: is saved when your phone boots, deletes all other refrences
  • Unplug: is saved when you unplug your phone from the charger
  • Charged: is saved when your phone gets charged to 100%
  • Screen Off: is saved when the screen of your phone goes off
  • Custom: is saved when you select the option to save a custom reference from the menu


As long as those events did not occur or after a reboot BBS will notify you about a missing reference. This is not a bug, it's the way BBS was designed

Kitkat users

Google has made changes to Kitkat that affect the way BBS works and some major changes needed to be made to adapt:
  • If your device is not rooted you will have no access to Partial Wakelocks anymore
  • If your device is rooted make sure to enable the advanced root features access all features (with some workarounds)
  • BBS can now be installed as a system app (advanced preferences). This does not affect updatability and provides you the full feature set (no workarounds) on Kitkat

v1.15.0.0 2013-11-23

  • Added support of stats for Kitkat (due to major changes by Google BBS now requires root on Kitkat to be fully featured)
  • Added the possibility to install BBS as system app
  • Recreated all icons and support for xxxhdpi densities
  • Fixed alarms parsing on 4.3+
  • Fixed crash from gplay crash report