This is a short tutorial that presents how you can monitor the SoC power information in an Android system.
1. Power Data
The power data consists in:
- power information obtained from the battery using I2C
2. Android /sys entries
The data is exposed through specific /sys
entries that are available on most of the Android Linux kernels (but not on all of them), so when using the kernel you have to check the entry first if it is available.
For example in a LG Nexus_5 phone we have the following available /sys
entries for power:
- Voltage: /sys/class/power_supply/battery/voltage_now
- Current: /sys/class/power_supply/battery/current_now
3. Data monitoring
Data is polled from the /sys entries and is displayed in the XPerf application as below.