Frequently Asked Questions - GSam Battery Monitor
GSam Battery Monitor and KitKat As of version 3.3, GSam Battery Monitor is now fully compatible with Android KitKat (4.4) for non-root devices. If your device is rooted however, there are more statistics that GSam can collect. So if you have root, make sure you install the GSam Battery Root Companion app. If you don't have root - no problem, things will still work well, but some stats such as app wakelocks will not be available. Unfortunately, Google has removed the ability in KitKat (4.4) for non-system applications to access battery statistics. On versions prior to KitKat, GSam obtained battery statistics from a built-in set of statistics from Android. If you have root, we can still get at that data. If you do not, then GSam will track as much of that data as it can by itself. Not all data can be tracked however. Permissions: In order to manually track usage for non-root users in KitKat, we had to include 2 new permissions. READ_PHONE_STATE and ACCESS_WIFI