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New user. When can I expect to see the battery report?

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I installed the the ELM327 for my 2017 Volt days ago. When can I expect to see the battery report?
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I have the same problems. The first OBDII device I bought will pair OK but I don't get any valid readings. The new one I just bought (small ELM327) won't pair.

I paid the $.99 for the battery cell function. My Volt is a 2017.

I plug the reader in, start the car, and pair the device to my Android phone.

I did get some readings after I drove the car the other day. But since then nothing. Does it only work after you've driven x miles?
That doesn't actually tell us much. EM327 is the name of a microcontroller chip that does OBD-to-RS232 transcoding, but it's in a lot of OBD readers, some of which support the right messages to work correctly with MGV, and some of which don't. As an example, here's a list of brands I found while asking for "ELM327" on Amazon:

FORScan
ODBATOR
BAFX Products
Taotao
ODBMonster
AUCARAUTO
SCCJGL
Grafken
SOOLOON
Fanlynk
WashingLee
OBDLink MX+
VEEPeak
MeStart
VGate
BlueDriver
Foxwell
aoonav
LAUNCH Creader
Konnwei
Autosion

At least six of those are obvious attempts to pretend that they're the VEEPeak one (being identically shaped and colored), four look like pretender FORScans (shape and label pattern), and there's one pretender OBDLink. We especially don't know how well the obvious pretenders are, because if they're willing to rip off design choices and sell for $8 instead of $17 (much less than $140 that the app-author-recommended OBDLink MX+), who knows what other shortcuts were taken?
So one of the VEEPeak Bluetooth/Android ones will work to your knowledge? I'll take
one more chance for my third one...
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OK, I got this one: "Veepeak OBDCheck BLE Bluetooth OBD II Scanner Auto Diagnostic Scan Tool for iOS & Android, Bluetooth 4.0 Car Check Engine Light Code Reader" from Amazon. It works!

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