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KitKat-like battery usage app for Android 6?

KitKat's native battery usage breakdown used to present how long the device had been running on battery completely up-front. Since Android 5 however, the focus of that breakdown now seems to be an unintelligent analysis of how much battery life might remain. I prefer the older system. Does anyone know of an app that's like what KitKat had?:

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As opposed to:

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It didn't take any meaningful information away. It actually gave you better information, and more of it.
 
I use Powerful Monitor. Has nice widgets for RAM usage, temperature, and CPU stats as well.

EDIT: Doesn't give exact value for time on battery though, it just shows a graph.
 
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The problem is exacerbated if you have really low drain (like if you leave your phone unplugged for 4 hours). You'll drain like 2% maybe and it will extrapolate the graph for days. You can't even zoom in on the drained portion.
 
I was dissapointed too after realizing it's gone, not just hidden somewhere. Estimated time left is usually a complete garbage information, I've had cases where it was wrong by more than a week... It would literally be more useful if it weren't there at all.

I usually take 'phone idle' time as a good estimate. In cases of higher usage, I can add 'Screen' and 'Standby'. This is good enough for me, so I didn't bother finding and installing some app for this. But if you need precise time like in 4.4.4, unfortunately that's the only option.
 
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