How to increase the battery icon on Xiaomi: all the ways from MIUI to ADB

Xiaomi’s battery icon is one of the most important interface elements, but its standard size isn’t always convenient. The little icon is hard to read in the bright sun, and visually impaired users have to strain their eyes to see the percentage of charge. Fortunately, MIUI offers several ways to increase the battery icon, from built-in settings to deep system modifications.

In this article, we’ll cover all the current techniques for Redmi, POCO, and Mi models (including the latest versions of MIUI 14/15), learn how to resize an icon without root rights, with ADB, third-party themes, and even system launchers, and why sometimes enlarging an icon can cause notification bars to crash on some firmware.

If you’ve never worked with a developer or ADB settings, don’t worry: we’ll start with the simplest ways and gradually move on to advanced ones. The main thing is to keep an eye on the MIUI versions and your device model, as some features may not be available on budget smartphones (such as the Redmi 9A or POCO M3).

1. Increase the battery icon through MIUI settings (no root)

The safest and fastest way is to use the built-in MIUI options. Unfortunately, it doesn't work on all devices, but check it out first.

Go to Settings → Screen → Font size and display. There are two parameters that indirectly affect the size of the battery icon:

• 📱 Text size -- zoom it into Big or Big. This automatically scales some status bar elements, including percentage of charge.
• 🔍 The scale of the display -- set it at 120% or 130%, and the battery icon gets a little bigger, but it changes all the interface elements along with it.

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If the battery icon is blurred after the scale change, return the settings to the original state and try another way. This is the MIUI 14 bug that occurs on the Redmi Note 11 and POCO X4 Pro.

Some firmware (e.g. MIUI 13 for Mi 11) have a hidden option to fine-tune the status bar to activate it:

1. Open Settings → About the phone and 5 times click on the MIUI version to turn on the developer mode.
2. Back to Settings → Additionally. → For developers.
3. Find the Size of the Status Bar (if not, the method is not suitable for your model).

⚠️ Note: Changing the size of the status bar may lead to overlapping interface elements (e.g. time will override the battery icon.

2.Use MIUI themes to modify icons

Xiaomi’s official theme store offers hundreds of status bar designs, including options with enlarged icons.This method does not require root rights and is suitable for all devices on MIUI 12+.

How to install a theme with a large battery icon:

1. Open the Themes app (if not, download it from Google Play).
2. In the search bar enter the requests: 🔋 big battery icon 📱 large status bar 🎨 custom battery percentage

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Apply

Make sure the theme supports your version of MIUI|

Check reviews for battery icon bugs |

Backup your current theme (Settings → Additional → Backup)|

After application, restart the phone

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Popular themes to increase the battery icon:

⚠️ Note: Some themes change the system fonts, which can cause malfunctions in applications (for example, WhatsApp or banking programs.

3. Size resizing via ADB (for advanced users)

If the built-in techniques don't work, you can use ADB (Android Debug Bridge), which requires a computer and basic command line knowledge, but gives you more customization options.

Step-by-step:

1. Download ADB Tools and unpack the archive.
2. Turn on the phone debugging over USB (Settings → For developers → debugging over USB).
3. Connect the phone to your PC and type in the command line: Adb devices Make sure the device is defined.
4. Change the size of the battery icon: adb shell settings put global status_bar_battery_scale 1.5 Here. 1.5 — The scaling factor (can be set from the 1.2 before 2.0).
5. Reboot your phone: adb reboot

If the command fails, your firmware can block changes through ADB. In this case, try an alternative method:

adb shell settings put secure sysui_battery_percent_style 1


adb shell settings put secure sysui_battery_percent_hidden 0

These commands include displaying the percentage of charge inside the icon, which visually makes it larger.

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Changes through ADB Reset after resetting settings or updating MIUI. To return the standard size, use the command adb shell settings delete global. status_bar_battery_scale

4. Third-party launchers with status bar customization

If you don't want to mess with the system settings, you can install an alternative launcher that supports changing status bar elements.

• 📱 Nova Launcher – allows you to change the size of icons in the status bar through the plugin Nova TeslaUnread.
• 🎨 Lawnchair 2 – has built-in settings for scaling interface elements.
• 🔧 Smart Launcher 6 – Offers pre-made themes with enlarged battery icons.

How to set up Nova Launcher:

1. Install Nova Launcher and TeslaUnread from Google Play.
2. Open the Nova settings, go to Lab → TeslaUnread Notifications.
3. Turn on the option to Show the battery icon and set the size 120%-150%.
4. Save the settings and restart the launcher.

⚠️ Warning: Third-party launchers may conflict with gestures MIUI, particularly POCO F4 redmi K50. Before installation, disable system gestures in Settings → Screen. → Additionally. → Full-screen gestures.

The advantage of this method is the flexibility of the settings. For example, in Lawnchair you can separately scale the battery icon, the percentage of charge and even the color of the indicator. 150-200 MB in the background).

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5 Modification of system files (root only)

If you have root rights, you can manually edit the system files that display the battery icon, which gives you maximum freedom, but requires caution — an error can lead to a bootloop.

Instructions for experienced users:

1. Install Root Explorer or Solid Explorer with root support.
2. Cross the path: /system/framework/framework-res.apk/res/drawable Here are stored standard battery icons (files with names) stat_sys_battery_*).
3. Copy the files you want on your PC and edit them in Photoshop or GIMP, increasing the size by 30-50%.
4. Save the changes to.png with the same resolution and replace the original files.
5. Reboot the phone.

To simplify the process, you can use ready-made modified icons from the themes of XDA Developers.

• 🔋 Battery Icon Mod for MIUI — set of icons with an increased percentage of charge.
• 🎨 MIUI Mix - customized icons for Redmi Note and POCO.

⚠️ Attention: After update MIUI all changes /system To avoid this, create a Magisk module with your files or use the Xposed Framework (if supported by your version of Android).

Alternative methods: widgets and notifications

If none of the above methods worked, you can go a workaround – use widgets or constant notifications with information about the battery.

The best apps for this:

• 📊 Battery Widget Reborn – allows you to create a widget with a large display of the percentage of charge.
• 🔔 Battery Notifier BT Free – Adds a permanent notification with an enlarged icon.
• 🔋 GSam Battery Monitor – Shows Detailed Information on Status Bar Battery.

How to set up Battery Widget Reborn:

1. Install the app from Google Play.
2. Add the widget to the main screen (size 4×1 or 4×2).
3. In the widget settings, select the Circle or Text style and set the font size 24-30pt.
4. Activate Show in Status Bar to duplicate information.

The advantage of this method is firmware independence. Widgets will work even after the MIUI update, and their appearance can be customized to suit any design. However, keep in mind that constant battery notifications can be annoying and occupy space in the notification panel.

7. Frequent problems and their solutions

When you change the size of the battery icon, users often encounter bugs, and here are the most common ones and ways to fix them:

If the phone starts to overheat or run out quickly after the changes, return the standard settings. Some modifications (especially through ADB or root) cause the system to constantly redraw the status bar, which increases the load on the processor.

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