Good battery application to check battery status? reason i asked is because my i usually charge my phone everynight and it last from 5 am until 11pm when i charged. by 11pm it has around 30% charge.. I installed SetCPU and is not 6pm, and is asking to be charged :O, so i uninstalled setcpu, btw i had it at 1k/1k
battery status shows 50% screen
BatteryLife by Curvefish.
i second the BatteryLife app
All I was looking for was an app to give me a percentage without taking up a lot of space. BatteryIndicator fit that need just fine. It shows a tiny battery icon in the top left corner of the screen with the percentage. Give it a download and see what you think.
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BatteryLife by Curvefish.
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Been using that on all of my android phones, simply awesome. It gets the job done, light weight, and looks good. Check it out in the market, is free.
Inat said:
All I was looking for was an app to give me a percentage without taking up a lot of space. BatteryIndicator fit that need just fine. It shows a tiny battery icon in the top left corner of the screen with the percentage. Give it a download and see what you think.
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I downloaded battery indicator also but its annoying because of the notification in the middle of the night wakes me up to tell me my phone is fully charged. And then you can't even make the notification go away without unplugging the phone. If I keep it plugged in, the screen stays lit all night ....or I unplug it and by morning its lost a lot of its charge. Major flaw I think. I like it during the day but not at night. Anybody know of a similar app that will be in the notification bar up top but is not so annoying?
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I downloaded battery indicator also but its annoying because of the notification in the middle of the night wakes me up to tell me my phone is fully charged. And then you can't even make the notification go away without unplugging the phone. If I keep it plugged in, the screen stays lit all night ....or I unplug it and by morning its lost a lot of its charge. Major flaw I think. I like it during the day but not at night. Anybody know of a similar app that will be in the notification bar up top but is not so annoying?
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I've never noticed that particular issue so I contacted the author. Here's what he had to say:
Battery Indicator shows that the phone is fully charged in the same way that it shows whatever the battery status is -- there's an ongoing notification in the pull-down notification area from the status bar. It doesn't have a special notification that pops up when the phone becomes fully charged, though, so if [he is] seeing that, it is either another app, or perhaps it's a customization that [his] carrier added to the phone.
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sorry battery indicator just conflicts with the noled program. I'll post about the conflict in that thread. sorry for the confusion.
You might want to give Battery Watcher Widget a try. That's what I finally settled on after trying a dozen or so.
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BatteryLife by Curvefish.
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Best one out there imho.
tacomaguy20 said:
I downloaded battery indicator also but its annoying because of the notification in the middle of the night wakes me up to tell me my phone is fully charged. And then you can't even make the notification go away without unplugging the phone. If I keep it plugged in, the screen stays lit all night ....or I unplug it and by morning its lost a lot of its charge. Major flaw I think. I like it during the day but not at night. Anybody know of a similar app that will be in the notification bar up top but is not so annoying?
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This is a TouchWiz thing. I dont have any battery apps installed and it has done this since day 1 of getting the phone.
I have battery status and it is a very small clean app that just leaves you a small battery in your top notification bar that tells you the percent.
"Battery widget" can be found in the market...and it works perfectly for me. It shows your battery status by 1% intervals.
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I personally use battery indicator pro, I liked it enough to use the "pro" or donate version. Great lightweight app, only $0.99. Shows percentage in the top status bar and never had an issue with it, you can set custom percentage relevant to the color (green,yellow,red).
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Hi,
I'm currently using JuicePlotter to see how my battery drains over time and this past night I think it drained more than it should (or maybe not).
For the ones who don't know, JuicePlotter runs in the background (of course) analyzing your battery, that too wastes battery juice of course. Thought, the app dev says on his website:
Perhaps the most important feature of JuicePlotter is that - unlike all similar apps and widgets - it's very battery friendly;
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So I'm not sure if the problem lies on JuicePlotter or not, I'll have to test it one night without it...
This is how JuicePlotter displays it's graph:
The coloured bands along the graph show your screen brightness, radio usage, charging status and battery temperature. Just scroll around to find precise information and make sense of the different colours.
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I went to bed at 4:10 with the battery at 97%. Around 13:00, it was at 89% and I didn't receive any calls/messages/mails/whatever during the night. The WiFi/3G was off all night along with the screen of course. The battery temperature remained the same too. I don't know if it makes a difference but I normally turn off Auto-Sync if the WiFi is off too.
Is it normal to lose 8% of battery juice in 9h in standby? I think it's a bit too much, but I don't know... Does the same happens to you too? What else cloud it be?
Interesting looking app. I've never noticed much of a lose overnight. Just installed the app, will fully charge and give you an update tomorrow.
Also how's the cell reception in your area? I've heard it can drain the battery a far bit if the reception is low.
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I'll have to do more testing but I think it's the app's problem... Tonight, I went to bed with 83% and it was exactly the same when I woke up...
I fully charged mine last night and turned on JuicePlotter. Still showing 100% this morning. Both in the app and on the phones battery indicator (in the notification bar). Do you know of any other apps similar to this that could be run in tandem?
Weird, Battery Graph also does the same thing...
This needs more days of testing on my part...
My battery goes from 100% - 0% in about 16hrs... doesn't matter how much I use the phone or not.
I have BatteryGraph but the results don't really mean anything to me as it just shows battery life vs time on a scale.
I'll try JuicePlotter to see if I can pin down exactly what's causing my terrible battery life.
I have a feeling it's running at full speed even when in standby but I'm not sure how to check if this is the case. Any ideas?
EDIT: Looking at BatteryGraph I've lost 15% in around 1hr... nothing unusual going on with my phone that I know about... just standard stuff running in the background. Perhaps the battery itself is simply past it's best.
CitizenLee said:
My battery goes from 100% - 0% in about 16hrs... doesn't matter how much I use the phone or not.
I have BatteryGraph but the results don't really mean anything to me as it just shows battery life vs time on a scale.
I'll try JuicePlotter to see if I can pin down exactly what's causing my terrible battery life.
I have a feeling it's running at full speed even when in standby but I'm not sure how to check if this is the case. Any ideas?
EDIT: Looking at BatteryGraph I've lost 15% in around 1hr... nothing unusual going on with my phone that I know about... just standard stuff running in the background. Perhaps the battery itself is simply past it's best.
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Wow that is terrible, try apps like Taskpanel and when you add programs to your auto kill list the program kills the programs as long as they are running in the background when the screen is off, however if you are on lets say your browser and you don't go to your homescreen the screen goes off into stand by it will not kill the app. Also try draining your battery to the point it shuts down by itself, plug it in let it charge for a bit, boot into recovery wipe battery stats start up the phone or leave it off (your choice) and let it charge fully. Are you using setcpu or OC Widget or anything? If you are using SetCPU make a profile for when screen is off and make it underclocked like 264 Mhz to 480Mhz, or with OC Widget tick the 'use different screen frequencies' (don't remember what it is called since I don't use it) and do the same; I like SetCPU better because when you turn the screen on it switches profile faster where as OC Widget takes its time however with SetCPU do not use the widget it will cause Sense to FC and I'm not sure about Vanilla.
Hope this makes sense since all my ideas are said at once.
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The way I've learned to recalibrate the battery is to let it go down to 5%, boot phone into recovery and wipe batterystats, then power off the phone. Let the phone charge until the green led is on without turning it on. Then turn on and use the phone as usual. Learned it over at modaco. Worked as a charm, and batterytime was improved. I have personally experienced strange batterybehaviour after periods with flashing a lot of roms.
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Here.
That's interesting...
Cause I've been playing with ROMs latetly, creating my own, testing hacks and stuff... And most of the time the phone is plugged and the battery is charged, during the flashing process it's using the battery and then it charges again. I also have to leave from time to time and when I get back I continue my stuff, meaning I'm charging the battery at high levels.
I'll have to try that calibrate method...
For now, for the past 2 nights, with JuicePlotter off, I've noticed the battery level did not change at all during the night. Tonight I'm going to try one more time with JuicePlotter on...
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Wow that is terrible
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Wiped battery stats at 5% last night, let the phone die and then charged whislt off until green light came on. Been keeping an eye on it all day and there has been a noticable improvement.
The phone came off charge at around 2am (so around 12hrs ago) and it has only lost 20%, which is a lot better than I was getting before.
It was probably just due to me messing about with some many ROMs and update zips lately as I tend not to have too much crap running in the background (I use OSMonitor).
I will look into setCPU but I remember trying it before with VR12 and it ended up causing some weird problems meaning I needed to do a full wipe to get everything working again.
Thanks for the help
This night, with JuicePlotter on, I only lost 1%, seems reasonable now... I don't know why that one time I lost 8% during the night. Maybe an isolated case? Something was probably running when it shouldn't, I just don't know what.
I've kind of been a battery nut since I've had my SG2. When I first got the phone, I was constantly concerned and checking my battery percentage via custom battery indicators [ones that show the percentage remaining in the notification area].
It's been about a month since I've had my phone, and I'm really content with the battery life on it. With about 2-3 hrs of screen on time I easily get 2 days.
I don't want to be constantly worrying about my battery so I went back to the stock battery indicator. I have Battery Monitor Widget installed, but it's not on my homescreen and I barely check it.
Now, I find that I'm much less concerned about battery life. Having the percentage indicator always visible was turning me into a nut job. In some ways I'm still a nut job , but at least it doesn't have anything to do with my phones battery life.
I'm curious to know what the community here prefers - Battery indicators that show percentage or no percentage [stock]?
i'm with you on this. I find the no % indicator less stressfull
My rooted phone shows the percentage at the battery icon, but before I would check my "about phone" to see power usage. I rather manage what my phone is doing rather that letting some app manage it. So I rather see it so I know if I need to turn something off depending if I need to save my battery for something else
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Yeah, you're right in a way, but I still prefer the percentage battery indicator... you just have to get used to whatever battery life you have, and live with it.
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As I recently discovered too, no percentage is definitely better for peace of mind. I get unnerved when it's going down like 95,94,93,92 etc. I feel like I'm about to run out, but the battery is still almost full actually. If I don't see the numbers, I don't have that problem.
However, the default battery indicator sucks so bad. It's almost epic fail level suck. There's almost no way to distinguish 100% and 90%. 60% looks actually like 80%. I much prefer HTC style horizontal and longer battery display, which can easily be cloned with UOT kitchen.
If you keep peace of mind away then who on earth won't like to have a percentage meter when it's available rather than a crap non percentage one!
Gauge battery is superb, its spot on and best of all its free puts battery percenge on notification top line
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So I'm having a rather odd issue with my Battery status..I know my battery is good, but I don't think it's good enough to be at 80% for 4 hours whilst using the phone regularly. In essence what I'm saying is that my battery doesn't go under 80% on the indication icon up top nor on any battery status app.
Does anyone know anything of this issue or have an idea of how to fix it? I'm not rooted (anymore), have completely stock everything.
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So I'm having a rather odd issue with my Battery status..I know my battery is good, but I don't think it's good enough to be at 80% for 4 hours whilst using the phone regularly. In essence what I'm saying is that my battery doesn't go under 80% on the indication icon up top nor on any battery status app.
Does anyone know anything of this issue or have an idea of how to fix it? I'm not rooted (anymore), have completely stock everything.
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If running stock...the Moto battery indicator only shows increments of 10%, SO 90...80...70 ETC.
See what it drops to next...70%?
Otherwise seems about right, unless you're streaming / gaming etc.
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If running stock...the Moto battery indicator only shows increments of 10%, SO 90...80...70 ETC.
See what it drops to next...70%?
Otherwise seems about right, unless you're streaming / gaming etc.
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Yup it dropped to 70% Is there a way to change it to be more within around 5% per tick? Or am I stuck at 10 per tick.
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Yup it dropped to 70% Is there a way to change it to be more within around 5% per tick? Or am I stuck at 10 per tick.
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Also check out widgetsoid2.x and minimalistic text in market. They both have battery readings for each %
My battery went from 70% to 0 in a matter of seconds? See screenshots below.
My only guess right now is the battery is not calibrated correctly and was displaying the incorrect % to begin with...?
I was on my phone browsing the forums on XDA app as well as reading some stuff on the internet, put it down to go to sleep. Luckily my GF's alarm goes off to wake me up and realize i'm running late to work cause my phone has died and my alarm hasn't gone off....
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My battery went from 70% to 0 in a matter of seconds? See screenshots below.
My only guess right now is the battery is not calibrated correctly and was displaying the incorrect % to begin with...?
I was on my phone browsing the forums on XDA app as well as reading some stuff on the internet, put it down to go to sleep. Luckily my GF's alarm goes off to wake me up and realize i'm running late to work cause my phone has died and my alarm hasn't gone off....
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Are you charging on the stock charger? Personally it looks like you have a bad battery but it could be the charger. Oh and there really isn't a battery calibration on these li-ion batteries. Sometimes the software may be a % point off but not like the old days of doing all sorts of craziness to get Android and/or the battery to work properly.
That has happened to me when I killed all apps in Task Manager. Battery Monitor Widget didn't update properly and suddenly when I do open it, it refreshes to actual current voltage.
Yeah, you are missing a few hours of battery data in there Put the battery monitor widget on your homescreen somewhere, or enable 'background data capture' in the battery monitor settings. also, don't kill it's task! this will ensure a good track of data. Whenever you see a long horizontal line like that on the chart means it's probably missing a good bit of data, no way your battery would just idle for that long and not lose voltage!
This happened to my Incredible, never figured it out.
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hmm, i did kill all tasks somewhere in that time period. But, I do have background data enabled on the widget as well as the widget on the home screen.
I used the phone for prolly another 30-40 min reading stuff on xda and maybe FB... but that shouldn't drop it from 70-0%... Also the stock android battery info screen shows a huge gap as well, even if I killed the battery monitor widget task, shouldn't the stock battery status screen still capture the data? As you can see it has a huge gap as well...
Hi
I just flashed CM7.2 yesterday. I noticed (well to be precise, and thats the problem, i did not) that if battery says 100% its still loading. Well this is also normal for stock rom, so i thought give it some time. but its loading like nearly forever at 100%
I also read some of the calibrating threads but dont want to ruin my batt by bumpcharging
Is this normal? Is there a notification (like the stock "Battery is fully loaded" or whatever its in english) anyway? as i type its still loading. 4hrs now
its normal. the full battery charge notification is touchwiz thing, cm rom doesnt have it.
use thirdparty battery app from market. some of them got full battery charge notification.
you can tell when the battery full when the battery charging icon goes and is replaced by a normal icon.
It will show 'full' instead of 'charged' in about phone.
This is when touchwiz displays the notification.
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I just flashed CM7.2 yesterday. I noticed (well to be precise, and thats the problem, i did not) that if battery says 100% its still loading. Well this is also normal for stock rom, so i thought give it some time. but its loading like nearly forever at 100%
I also read some of the calibrating threads but dont want to ruin my batt by bumpcharging
Is this normal? Is there a notification (like the stock "Battery is fully loaded" or whatever its in english) anyway? as i type its still loading. 4hrs now
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Cyanogenmod does not have battery notification. You can simply watch the icon if it show the normal battery symbol its fully charged.
IMHO that notification is pretty anoying when you charge your phone a night beside you bed ;-)
Use app- Battery HD
It's works great for me. Will give you all the necessary information.
You can also choose a setting in which the phone 'speaks' (in a robotic woman's voice) when the battery is fully charged.
Totally sweet!
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I use this. Battery Full Notification
some app just notify you when the battery is reach the 100% not when fully charged.
this app just work great.
just set and forget.
I will try the Battery Full Notification. seems to be very small app. dont want to run too much useless (well...saves me from 4 clicks) stuff in background.
But now that i know its a "feature" im calmed. thought it might be my batt
Thank you sirs and ladys for the answers
Im not used to order and tidiness in this forum, but if everything is said, a mod can close/archive/do what ever you do with answered questions.