Battery Monitors screwed by Kit Kat?

[cybernutte]

I'm running Kit Kat (as of yesterday, 4.4.2) on my Nexus 7 (2013). Lately, I've been worried about battery usage, and so today I decided to get a battery monitor that would help me identify where the drain on my battery was coming from. I downloaded and installed GSam Battery Monitor, but as soon as I installed it, it told me that Kit Kat prevents non-system apps from accessing battery statistics. It claimed that the company is working on a solution, but.... So I uninstalled it. Why is Kit Kat doing this? Does anyone know of a way for me to get the info I want even with Kit Kat? I tried Data usage (under Settings), but that just shows me what has used most data over time, not what is using my battery NOW. (I know that I can narrow Data usage to show me just today, but that still isn't what I think I want.)

One related question: Usage data claims that today, Dec. 12, one of the apps that used data was YouTube. It didn't use much (1.34 KB), but I didn't use YouTube at all today. In fact, if I look at several days' usage, among the items listed are Keep, Hangouts, Calendar, Google Keyboard, and Google Text-to-speech Engine, none of which I've used. None used a lot of data, but still, why should they use any if I don't use them?

Thanks in advance for any help/advice/info you can offer a relatively new Android user.

 

[Golfdriver97]

Part of the reason is KitKat is measuring battery usage differently now. I don't have anymore details than that, but the Developers need time to modify their apps to make it work.

 

[cybernutte]

Thanks, Golfdriver97, for your quick and useful response. I guess I'll just have to be patient (not one of my strengths )

 

[cybernutte]

Though Golfdriver explained the issue with Kit Kat, I'm wondering whether anyone can answer the second part of my original question:

Usage data claims that today, Dec. 12, one of the apps that used data was YouTube. It didn't use much (1.34 KB), but I didn't use YouTube at all today. In fact, if I look at several days' usage, among the items listed are Keep, Hangouts, Calendar, Google Keyboard, and Google Text-to-speech Engine, none of which I've used. None used a lot of data, but still, why should they use any if I don't use them?

 

[vmurph]

Though Golfdriver explained the issue with Kit Kat, I'm wondering whether anyone can answer the second part of my original question:

I'd like to see that answered as well. It frustrates me to no end, when apps that I never use, launch themselves and actually use data, even on days that my tablet wasn't turned on...and wifi was OFF.