Battery Buddy
Fully discharging a battery and charging it back to full charge again wears it out sooner than you might expect. Battery Buddy can help you increase the battery lifetime by automatically pausing and resuming charging. You can set alerts for low and full enough charge levels, too.
Important: Battery Buddy 3.6-1 and later releases require SailfishOS 3.3. The legacy version that supports SailfishOS 2.2.0.18 and later can be downloaded manually from GitHub releases page.
The application comes with a service component that takes care of charger control and alerts. This means that the application doesn't have to be opened for alerts and limits to work - which is against Jolla Store policy, and hence worth mentioning here. You can control the service from the application (start/stop and enable/disable on boot).
There is now a logging option, which can be accessed via the Settings page pulley menu, with three logging options. You can copy the log contents, too, so submitting the service log for debugging purposes is now a lot more convenient! Using --verbose and --debug flags still work as before.
Please note that the charger control mechanism may not work for every device out there. So far it has been successfully tested with the following devices:
- F(x)tec Pro¹
- Jolla Phone
- Sony Xperia 10
- Sony Xperia X
- Sony Xperia X Compact
- Sony Xperia XA2
- Sony Xperia XA2 Ultra
- Sony Xperia Z3 Compact Tablet
Please let me know if it works for your device, or if it doesn't work!
Bug reports and translations are most welcome!
If you like my work and would like to support me, you can now buy me a coffee.
Source code can be found in GitHub.
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Changelog:
3.14-1
- Special pi version release :D
- Use keepalive-tool to mitigate deep sleep
- Update translators and credits
- Update Polish translation (thanks, atlochowski)
- Update Deutch translation (thanks, nephros)
3.13-1
- Show battery temperature and condition (thanks, nephros)
- Show notifications about abnormal temperature and condition (thanks, nephros)
- Fix broken notifications on SFOS 3.4 and earlier
- Bring back SFOS 2.2 support
Full changelog in GitHub.
Comments
direc85
Thu, 2020/06/04 - 20:42
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Could you post contents of `~/.config/harbour-batterybuddy/harbour-batterybuddy.conf`?
oxygenh
Wed, 2020/06/03 - 14:31
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3.1.1 - It's ok on Sony XPeria X Compact (SailfishX 3.3.16).
direc85, thank you very much!
Feature request: integfrate conrols at system seеtings ;)
direc85
Wed, 2020/06/03 - 17:55
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Great! Adding it to the list!
Controlling battery settings from within Settings app actually makes a lot of sense... Let's see if I'll make it happen :)
oxygenh
Thu, 2020/06/04 - 12:05
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Thank you very much. For example you can see as it made at Battery notifier 2 by Schturman ( https://openrepos.net/content/schturman/battery-notifier-2 )
michl
Mon, 2020/06/01 - 19:47
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Also workson F(x)tec Pro¹!
Nice Job! Thank you!
It uses /sys/class/power_supply/battery/input_suspend
direc85
Mon, 2020/06/01 - 20:27
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Great! Thanks for the info! I'll add it to the description!
dumol
Sat, 2020/05/30 - 13:11
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Charge control is really cool, thanks! Please don't forget about adding a donation link. ;-]
UiPo1goo
Fri, 2020/05/15 - 11:13
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Very nice idea to use github. I opened two issues: Charging won't suspend after upper limit reaches.
Notification interval should be splitted.
direc85
Sat, 2020/05/16 - 15:21
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Thanks, noted!
direc85
Sun, 2020/04/26 - 19:23
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Hello Sailors!
I rewrote the systemd service, which was a huge task! It's in the famous state "works for me", but I decided to first release it only on GitHub to avoid accidental installation. Please proceed with care and let me know how it works for you and your specific device! Thanks!
Edit: The front page still says that it is required to be kept opened for working properly, but that's no longer true. I'll fix it in the next beta release :)
objectifnul
Fri, 2020/04/24 - 21:49
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Seems that some notification should be amended: "Please disconnect the charger" would make more sense than "Please connect the charger" when the upper limit is reached.
babba22
Sat, 2020/03/28 - 18:06
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Hi direc, wonderful app! There's only one thing I would like to ask you: at the moment, when the battery reaches the pause charging limit, not only the battery isn't charged anymore (excellent!), but the phone use the battery power. Is it possible to make it use the AC power instead? This way the battery would be preserved even more
direc85
Sat, 2020/03/28 - 23:35
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I looked into it while I implemented the charger mechanism, but it looks like it's not possible with the current, uh, adaptation layer? Binary driver blobs? I don't know, but there doesn't seem to be any control over that.
The best you can get is to set start and stop percentages close to one another, say 80% and 79% so that the charge stays as constant as possible.
babba22
Wed, 2020/04/01 - 01:08
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Ok, I understand. Thank you very much for the app!
zipotron
Sat, 2020/03/28 - 09:42
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Dude, amazing app! Thanks a lot for that!!! Just a consideration, if you could deamonize the app is going a be just perfect !
direc85
Sat, 2020/03/28 - 11:37
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Thanks! I'll implement the service at some point for sure!
oxygenh
Thu, 2020/03/26 - 12:35
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I have issue: I'm not receiving notification, when charge below low limit or higher upper limit.
( http://prntscr.com/rn0vff )
ps: but charging control work good.
My settings: Sailfish X 3.2.1.20 (Sony xperia x compact)
console log:
[nemo@Sailfish ~]$ harbour-batterybuddy
[I] unknown:0 - Starting Battery Buddy...
[I] unknown:0 - Loaded lowAlert 39
[I] unknown:0 - Loaded highAlert 85
[I] unknown:0 - Loaded interval 300
[I] unknown:0 - Loaded limitEnabled 1
[I] unknown:0 - Loaded notificationsEnabled 1
[I] unknown:0 - Loaded lowLimit 76
[I] unknown:0 - Loaded highLimit 85
[I] unknown:0 - Loaded limitEnabled 1
[I] unknown:0 - Reading capacity from "/sys/class/power_supply/ba
ttery/capacity"
[I] unknown:0 - Reading charge state from "/sys/class/power_suppl
y/battery/status"
[I] unknown:0 - Reading charger status from "/sys/class/power_sup
ply/usb/present"
[I] unknown:0 - Controlling charging via "/sys/class/power_supply
/battery/charging_enabled"
[W] unknown:0 - Theme dir "/usr/share/themes/jolla/meegotouch/z1.
25/" does not exist
[I] unknown:0 - Launching GUI...
[W] unknown:518 - file:///usr/lib/qt5/qml/Sailfish/Silica/private
/PulleyMenuBase.qml:518:29: Unable to assign [undefined] to float
[W] unknown:518 - file:///usr/lib/qt5/qml/Sailfish/Silica/private
/PulleyMenuBase.qml:518:29: Unable to assign [undefined] to float
direc85
Sat, 2020/03/28 - 11:56
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Thanks for the --debug output below (you can remove it now so that there's less clutter).
I tested it, too, and it looks like I managed to break the notifications at some point. I'll fix it and release a new version soon (hopefully today).
EDIT: I deleted the debug output comment.
oxygenh
Sat, 2020/03/28 - 19:23
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Thank you very much! My issue absolutely fixed with last release. It's cool! Superbe!
direc85
Sat, 2020/03/28 - 23:30
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You're welcome!
direc85
Thu, 2020/03/26 - 13:50
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Try to run the application using "harbour-batterybuddy --debug". Its actually not documented yes. Whoops. And I still have to add debug stuff.
oxygenh
Wed, 2020/03/25 - 10:54
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Thank you very much for vry usefull app. Do you have plan built in system setting (like battery notifier), and make daemon?
direc85
Wed, 2020/03/25 - 12:12
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Thanks! Most likely I will do that in a month or so; I suddenly managed to rid myself of all free time for a month '-.-
oxygenh
Wed, 2020/03/25 - 13:46
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It will be cool! I will wait. Thank you.
Where do i send little donat? ;)
direc85
Wed, 2020/03/25 - 14:38
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TBH I'm working on it. Thank you for asking :)
PawelSpoon
Tue, 2020/03/24 - 08:15
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Great with Situations ! Starts on cable plugin
enrish
Sun, 2020/03/22 - 21:51
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Genius! I hoped for this new feature for long, as i often missed notifications when in another room. Thanks a lot. I also had problems after the very last update, and uninstalling-reinstalling did it.
mz_i_norge
Sun, 2020/03/22 - 21:39
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Why is it not possible to charge the battery up to 100% with automatic charging control? That stops at 95%.
direc85
Mon, 2020/03/23 - 09:40
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Thanks for feedback! That's just an arbitrary maximum value I chose. I have to revisit the sliders, too, because it's quite hard to get the value exactly right on Jolla Phone with its small display. I'll fix both of these in a future release.
t0t3u
Sun, 2020/03/22 - 16:46
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Fixed by reinstalling it.
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