The battery is one of the most important elements of any mobile and, also, one of the fastest to break down. Therefore, it is convenient to know what is the health of said battery in order to determine whether or not it will have to be replaced soon. What do you have a Xiaomi mobile? It is not too difficult to know the data.
Since the battery is one of the most vital elements in any smartphone, and that Your experience with the telephone is radically dependent on your health, it is always important to know its status as well as the load cycles that said component has undergone. Unfortunately, this data is not very easy to know on Android; Even though there are brands that do offer this information in a more or less hidden way, as Xiaomi does.
Check battery health
The MIUI hidden battery menu offers a multitude of technical details of the operation of this component, some of them essential to know the status of the phone. With use, and successive recharges, the battery degrades while losing its ability to retain energy. Knowing how it works we can get an idea of if we will have to change it soon or it will still hold for a long time, also if we must take extreme care to make its deterioration as slow as possible.
To access the secret MIUI battery menu you have to do the following (it is suitable, at least, for MIUI 10 and MIUI 11; with Android 9 at least):
- Access the phone application of your Xiaomi and write:
- You will see that a system screen pops up with a multitude of parameters, although you will only have to look at two: ‘MB06 ‘and’ MF02 ‘.
- MB_06 hints at battery health: Depending on how your state is, you will see a qualifier in English. In our case, the battery is working correctly: ‘Good’.
- MF_02 details the charge cycles. Each cycle is a complete recharge from 0 to 100%: the system monitors each charge by adding a unit as the total of the battery has been added (it is cumulative, the recharge does not need to be complete at once).
The two pieces of information are very important as they show how the phone’s battery is. And it is highly recommended to look at them whenever you go to buy a second-hand Xiaomi since so you will know how the phone has been treated: If your health is not good, and you accumulate many charging cycles, think twice.
Via | MIUI forum