How to increase the battery icon on Xiaomi Redmi

Owners of Xiaomi, Redmi and Poco smartphones often face the problem of insufficient visibility of the power indicator. Standard font size or minimalist design of the MIUI shell can make the display of the percentage of charge too small, especially for people with visual impairment. Increasing this parameter is not just a matter of aesthetics, but a way to navigate the state of the device faster without looking at the top corner of the screen.

There are several proven ways to make the icon more readable without getting Root rights. We'll look at the standard features of the system, hidden developer settings and third-party utilities that allow you to customize the appearance of the status bar. It's important to understand that the methods can vary slightly depending on the version of the firmware.

In this article, we will discuss in detail the algorithms of actions for current versions of shells, including the latest HyperOS. You will learn to manage the scale of the interface and can adjust the display of energy as convenient for you, while avoiding common errors that can lead to system failures.

Standard display settings in MIUI and HyperOS

The first and safest step is to check the built-in options. Xiaomi has provided basic tools to change the appearance of the status bar. However, the functionality may be limited depending on the firmware region (Global, China, EEA) and the Android version. In most cases, the resizing occurs indirectly through font or style settings.

To start, you need to go to the settings menu. Find the Screen or Display section, and then select the Font and text size. Here, the scale slider affects all text elements of the interface, including the percentage of charge digits if they are displayed in text. Scaling up text is the easiest way to make the numbers bigger, but it will also change the font sizes in messages and menus.

⚠️ Attention: Excessive zoom in font can cause some interface elements to go or become unreadable.

The second option is to change the style of the battery icon. In the MIUI and HyperOS shell, you can often change the shape of the indicator. Although this does not increase the physical size of the pixels, the visual perception can change. Go to Settings → Notifications and status bar → Battery indicator. Here you can choose to display as a number inside or next to the icon, which sometimes makes the information more noticeable.

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If the standard font settings don’t work, try changing the theme in the Themes app. Some third-party themes have larger default system icons.

Using Developer Mode to Scale

A more advanced method that gives direct control over the size of interface elements is to use a developer menu, which is a hidden toolbar designed to debug applications, but contains a useful function to change the minimum screen width (DPI), changing this parameter allows you to globally increase all elements, including the battery icon, making it much larger.

To activate this mode, open Settings → About Phone. Find the MIUI Version or OS Version bar and quickly click on it 7-10 times in a row until the notification “You became a developer” appears. Then a new section Additional → Advanced Settings → For developers will appear in the settings menu.

Inside the developer menu, find Minimum Width (or Smallest Width) and write down the original value (usually a number like 360, 392, or 411) to be able to go back. Decreasing that number visually increases all the elements on the screen. For example, reducing the value by 20-30 units can make the battery icon noticeably larger.

It's worth noting that changing the DPI affects the whole system, and the app icons, the keyboard and the menus will get bigger, which may require more page scrolling, and it's a powerful tool, but it requires care. If you set it too low, the interface can become inconvenient to use with one hand.

Third-party applications for status bar customization

If system constraints do not allow you to achieve the desired result, specialized applications from the Google Play store come to the rescue. These utilities are able to block the standard status bar with their own widget, which can be configured almost anywhere: change the size, color, shape and position of the battery indicator.

One popular solution is the Battery Widget app, or Custom Status Bar analogs, which you'll be given a wide range of settings once you install it, and you can choose to display the percentage of charge as a huge digit, a color circle, or a classic icon of increased size, and these applications often run on top of the system, requiring appropriate permissions.

• 🔋 Custom Battery Bar – allows you to create a floating panel with a larger icon.
• 🎨 Super Status Bar – allows you to completely replace the design of the upper bar, including the size of the charge font.
• ⚙️ Good Lock – Some modules allow you to fine-tune system elements, although Xiaomi functionality may be limited.

Using third-party software has its own peculiarities: these applications can consume additional battery power, as they are constantly active to render the interface. In addition, on new versions of Android and HyperOS, the system can aggressively unload such applications from memory, requiring constant manual check of the power saving settings for them.

Set up widgets on the desktop

The alternative to changing the system icon in a narrow status line is to use large widgets on the home screen, ideal for those who want to see the exact charge level without looking at the top corner. MIUI and HyperOS shells offer a rich selection of default widgets that can be scaled.

To add a widget, press and hold your finger on the empty desktop, then select Widgets. In the Battery or System category, you'll find different variations of indicators. Some of them take up a significant part of the screen and display the percentage of charge in a very large font. You can drag the widget to a convenient location and, if the shell version allows, stretch it to the desired size.

The advantage of widgets is that they are independent of the system constraints of the status bar, so you can choose a stylish circular indicator or a classic scale with numbers. AMOLED-screens where you can use widgets with a black background to save energy, while increasing the visibility of information.

⚠️ Warning: Desktop widgets occupy usable screen area. If you use your smartphone with one hand, make sure that a large battery widget doesn't interfere with navigation through other important interface elements.

There are also third-party widgets that integrate deeper into the system, which can display not only the total charge, but also the state of each CPU core or temperature, if such functionality is supported by the device.

Comparison of methods of increasing the indicator

The best method depends on your skills and the look and feel of your smartphone, and each of the ways we've looked at has its advantages and disadvantages, and to help you decide, we've created a comparison table that organizes information about the complexity of implementation and the impact on the system.

The most balanced solution for most users is a combination of font customization and widgets, which allows you to maintain the stability of the system without resorting to complex manipulations with DPI or installing additional software. However, if it is critical to see a larger icon in the status bar, the developer mode remains the only effective standard tool.

In particular, the minimum width in developer mode sometimes returns to factory value after a system reboot or update, in which case the procedure will have to be repeated.

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The optimal balance between icon visibility and usability is achieved with a moderate increase in the scale of the font combined with a large widget on the home screen.

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Critical: On devices with screen cutouts (camera-hole or bangs), excessively increasing status bar elements through the DPI can lead to the imposition of a battery icon on the camera area, making it unreadable.