A battery health app for Android, built by Hugh Jeffreys himself

The week's single upload is a piece of software rather than a repair, recorded in a voice many viewers barely recognized.

Channel: Hugh Jeffreys Story of October 4, 2026Trari Newsroom

Why this story? The channel's weekly summary: what went up this week, what is drawing views now, and where the channel stands among similar channels.

How I Brought Battery Health to Android.

Hugh Jeffreys usually brings dead hardware back to life. His one video of the week is something he made from scratch: "How I Brought Battery Health to Android." It shows how he built a battery health check for Android phones, the kind of readout iPhone owners already get in their settings. He put it into iTest, his own app for checking hardware and device specifications. The video drew about 62,000 views on its first day.

The comments split into two threads. One is about Hugh himself. He sounds noticeably hoarse, the video arrived later than his usual Sunday slot, and many viewers wish him a quick recovery. The other is a question asked again and again: how is this different from AccuBattery, the free Android app that many say they have used for years? A few viewers have already installed the new app, one of them on an older Galaxy S24 Ultra.

The new video was not the only one drawing a crowd. "This Tablet Came From A Prison - They Tried So Hard To Lock It Down." is fifteen weeks old and past 1.2 million views, and it still pulls in close to as many viewers each day as the new upload. Further back, a $10 e-waste Lenovo with a Core i7 keeps adding views slowly.

Across the whole channel, daily views are running at well over double their usual pace, and the subscriber count sits right at one million. Among similar tech channels it was a modest week by total views gained. Digital Doctor's repair counter was far ahead of everyone, while Big Clive and WULFF DEN kept a steadier, quieter pace.

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The videos drawing views on Hugh Jeffreys right now

This Tablet Came From A Prison - They Tried So Hard To Lock It Down.1,237,361 views $10 E-Waste Lenovo With Core i7 + GPU Gets Repaired (Model: 330S)391,617 views

The numbers

Here is how Hugh Jeffreys' week looks in figures.

views gained this week: this channel and similar channels

Digital Doctor

44,070,797

Karl Conrad

4,234,688

9to5Mac

960,589

WULFF DEN

944,241

iDeviceHelp

750,567

bigclivedotcom

731,124

Jeff Geerling

613,639

Hugh Jeffreys

321,953

Tim Schofield

307,363

subscribers

1,000,000

no significant change in the last 7 days

total views

238,956,145

views per day

104,709

typical day: 38,126

first-day views of each video posted this week

How I Brought Battery Health to Android.

61,944

subscribers: this channel and similar channels

bigclivedotcom

1,130,000

Digital Doctor

1,100,000

Jeff Geerling

1,090,000

iDeviceHelp

1,060,000

Karl Conrad

1,010,000

Hugh Jeffreys

1,000,000

WULFF DEN

988,000

9to5Mac

981,000

Tim Schofield

972,000

As of October 4, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube

Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.