We all know the battery icon on the Vibrant is subpar. It looks like you have much more battery than you actually do. The stock icons (10, 20, 40, 60, 80%) don't show their correct percentages.
I made this morph in hopes to fix that issue. I actually measured the available space in the icon and figured how much each percentage would be (10, 20, 40, 60, 80). Only issue I can see is I don't know at what percentages the phone changes icons (ie. 20% icon at actual 20% or another close percentage).
Also including a revert in case someone wants to go back to the stock icon.
(May include comparison screenshots if I can get them)
Accurate Battery
Stock Battery Revert
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Thank you so much!
Thank you!
Also, for those of you that don't want to have to morph, you could always download the battery watcher widget, which displays the percentage of battery remaining in a widget.
True. A lot of widgets will put a percentage up in the status bar. This is more for the OCD (no offense) people that can't stand having it be way off.
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MINUS Stl said:
True. A lot of widgets will put a percentage up in the status bar. This is more for the OCD (no offense) people that can't stand having it be way off.
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Well I'm far from ocd (
You should see my desk), but it is really annoying that what looks like 70%, is actually 40%
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I have been trying to port over this battery from the captivate forums, as its super accurate (to the percentage). Anyone feel like trying? It involved 100 images and 3 xml files.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=755822
zimphishmonger said:
I have been trying to port over this battery from the captivate forums, as its super accurate (to the percentage). Anyone feel like trying? It involved 100 images and 3 xml files.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=755822
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I can't make the orginal one work. The accurate battery I mean. It says applying but doesn't complete. How long does it normally take? Can you have more than one morph at a time? Did I miss something?
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I can't make the orginal one work. The accurate battery I mean. It says applying but doesn't complete. How long does it normally take? Can you have more than one morph at a time? Did I miss something?
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I have posted a working one in zimphishmonger's thread test it out and leave me some feedback!
Posted here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=756441
parmijo11 said:
I can't make the orginal one work. The accurate battery I mean. It says applying but doesn't complete. How long does it normally take? Can you have more than one morph at a time? Did I miss something?
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Make sure you have usb debugging enabled
zimphishmonger said:
I have been trying to port over this battery from the captivate forums, as its super accurate (to the percentage). Anyone feel like trying? It involved 100 images and 3 xml files.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=755822
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There seems to be a link to a Vibrant version here.
Ooh, I like that circle battery indicator! I originally wanted to see about making more icons than just the 7, but wasn't how to implement it (I'm not a coder).
The vibrant version is here also: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=756441
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Good call. That was the problem. It rebooted, will have wait a bit to see if it works. At 70% right now. Thanks
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Anyone willing to make anaccurate battery mod that does not have an icon... I was thinking this would be nice:
- NO battery icon, simply a number in the notification bar.
- NO color, just the numbers in White/Black depending on the bar you are using.
- Benefit would be that it is CLEAN and EASY to read
- I would prefer it cound down in intervals of 5, maybe 10. Anything more than that is overkill and makes me constantly look at the battery... hate it.
Anyone else agree, and more importantly willing to try and do one?
I'm looking for the opposite
Accurate battery icon without the number. Unless I missed it, only ROM that does that right now is Trigger.
Actually, now that I think about it, doesn't the GenX themese basically do what you're looking for?
I like the idea, I like either or. I was looking at some themes on the i9000 page and I'm pretty sure there was one, goldeneye maybe? Not sure, there was two themes I looked at one had just a number and it looked nice. Trigger does just the battery with no numbers and its a lot better than having number and bar.
I think this is a good idea. If anything, it gives us all more options.
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id like to get rid of the icon and have just the % also! that would be nice!
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Anyone willing to make anaccurate battery mod that does not have an icon... I was thinking this would be nice:
- NO battery icon, simply a number in the notification bar.
- NO color, just the numbers in White/Black depending on the bar you are using.
- Benefit would be that it is CLEAN and EASY to read
- I would prefer it cound down in intervals of 5, maybe 10. Anything more than that is overkill and makes me constantly look at the battery... hate it.
Anyone else agree, and more importantly willing to try and do one?
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Tomorrow I shall try this.
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This is a great idea. Although I would like to see it in a accurate version.
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I will throw it together right now.
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Your awesome tonic. Can you make it compatible with axura 2.3?
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GreggoryD502 said:
Your awesome tonic. Can you make it compatible with axura 2.3?
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yeah It should be its just battery images and I think they are all named the same if I have to rename them for Axura no biggy.
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yeah It should be its just battery images and I think they are all named the same if I have to rename them for Axura no biggy.
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I love you!! In a bromance way!!
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Tonicacid said:
yeah It should be its just battery images and I think they are all named the same if I have to rename them for Axura no biggy.
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Tonic i started to learn to theme recently but i have a question.
If swapping battery mods you only need to copy the new ones in place of the other ones... is that correct? do we need to do anything with the xmls or anything extra?
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Tonic i started to learn to theme recently but i have a question.
If swapping battery mods you only need to copy the new ones in place of the other ones... is that correct? do we need to do anything with the xmls or anything extra?
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Yeah pretty much. if they are named the same just replace the images.
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ummm well thanks lol. Should have it done in a few.
Sweet. Can't wait!!
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heres a question. what do you want for charging? as far as numbers go its going to jump from your current charge level to 100 and back while charging or do you want a battery symbol for that?
Surprise me bro!! I trust your taste and judgment.
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heres a question. what do you want for charging? as far as numbers go its going to jump from your current charge level to 100 and back while charging or do you want a battery symbol for that?
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My suggestion is to have it alternate between current % and 1% higher while charging....and maybe change the color just so you can tell the difference.
Alternatively, you could alternate between current % and a charging icon.
Let me know if you need a hand with it.
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My suggestion is to have it alternate between current % and 1% higher while charging....and maybe change the color just so you can tell the difference.
Alternatively, you could alternate between current % and a charging icon.
Let me know if you need a hand with it.
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If you want to do the charging part I can send you a zip of all my images if you want to put your charging idea in to play? Like I said its up to you. I have all the numbered images done. I was just making a neat little spinning thing while charging lol. Let me know.
Edit:hell I can send them and we can put up both lol.
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You guys are great. Can't wait to see what kind of hotness you all come up with!!
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I know this topic have been discussed so many tines and I did search just about most of the topic regarding extending battery life but somehow my phone is still draining like crazy. This is my spec:
Froyo 2.2
Overstock v 2.4.1 kernel
Trigger 3.2
juice defender ultimate
Setup cpu
I need to know if anyone have the similar setup as mine and how to get the battery to last longer. The only things I have running in the background is my Go weather update and I set my email to sync every half hour. My screen brightness is set to auto. My GPS and Wi-Fi is always off unless I need to use it. I do play alot of internet radio like Pandora and DI Radio.
Thanks in advance for any help.
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Put it on airplane mode,turn phone off,put in drawer and don't look at it again till next week.....guaranteed awesome battery life
How much time are you getting out of battery
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Shortbus-Driver said:
Put it on airplane mode,turn phone off,put in drawer and don't look at it again till next week.....guaranteed awesome battery life
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This does work. Trust me.
Man. If there was only a GUIDE for extending your battery life. Maybe I'll write one up. Oh wait!!! I did.
Shortbus-Driver said:
Put it on airplane mode,turn phone off,put in drawer and don't look at it again till next week.....guaranteed awesome battery life
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Thanks for your useless comment! Why bother wasting your time for answering?
Woodrube said:
This does work. Trust me.
Man. If there was only a GUIDE for extending your battery life. Maybe I'll write one up. Oh wait!!! I did.
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Thanks Woodrube! That was amazing what you put together to help. I will try it and let you know what happen.
Get an Anker battery. 1800mAh works great. Bionix 1.3.1 with Overstock kernel gives me ~40hours with light usage. 24 with very heavy usage.
Woodrube said:
This does work. Trust me.
Man. If there was only a GUIDE for extending your battery life. Maybe I'll write one up. Oh wait!!! I did.
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Woodrude - your guide should be stickied IMO - good work.
Thanks man. I have no idea how that is done. All I know is that a mod has to do it (I guess). It got kicked back to the 3rd page the other day b/c of all the redundant questions but I put it in my signature. Maybe post something on it to bring it back up.?
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Thanks man. I have no idea how that is done. All I know is that a mod has to do it (I guess). It got kicked back to the 3rd page the other day b/c of all the redundant questions but I put it in my signature. Maybe post something on it to bring it back up.?
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Bro, you put way to much work into that guide for it to be hidden way down on the third page. Listen, I'll PM you on what you have to do to get your guide stickied.
Hi there,
is there a way of getting the percentage of the battery-power in the status bar? My xperia mini is rooted, is it possible without flashing a whole (modded) firmware? I would be very happy If somebody could explain me how/ show me the necessary files, or give me some hint ...
thx,
Thorsten
Use Battery Indicator App from the Market!
Quicker Free
there are little adv space in the bottom, but it allows you to have almost all needed switchers (including spot light from led) .
Thanks a lot!
But what I am looking for is that I can only cat the percentage next to the original Battery symbol. Like it is in Cyanogenmod ...
Any suggestions?
Thorsten
if you have CWM then you can use Kitchen and change anything like showing battery Percentage.
Guide for using UOT Kitchen is Here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1349048
Yeah, this modding tool rocks!
I managed it without clockwork recovery, just by exchanging the framework-res.apk file on the phone with the one created by UOTK. I uploaded the new package file via adb. If anybody is interested in details, wants to have some support you are kindly invited to ask.
Now I have exactly what I want standard rom with the battery-icon with percentage, the rest is unchanged. Awesome!
Thanks a lot!
Thorsten
good to hear it i didn't use it without CWM though
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sorry to be off the topic since my question comes within battery topic i thought i will post it here.i
i noticed when my phone is charging after a while the green led comes on,which means if im not mistaken phone is charged however my lock screen shows 95% or 91% any reason y?
i rooted my phone also got recovery but using stock.
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sorry to be off the topic since my question comes within battery topic i thought i will post it here.i
i noticed when my phone is charging after a while the green led comes on,which means if im not mistaken phone is charged however my lock screen shows 95% or 91% any reason y?
i rooted my phone also got recovery but using stock.
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didn't have this problem.. do you use stock lock screen or some thing like GoLocker and WidgetLocker?
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didn't have this problem.. do you use stock lock screen or some thing like GoLocker and WidgetLocker?
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i used stock it showed 95%
should i use battery caliberation from market
It's supposed to be like that.
The green LED simply means your phone is at least 90% charged.
i thought i just check the thread before i fix it via pc companion.looks like they have changed many things compared to old mini pro.but this is unusual.
o well thanks for posting or else it would of took me a few hours setting my phone up.
Thorsten,
Could you post the framework-res.apk that you made? I also want the % in the notification bar but if you already made one in kitchen no need for me to reinvent the wheel
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By the way is framework-res.apk device specific? I'm on am xperia ray so I suppose yours might not work for me if you are on a different xperia...
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I have made a battery mod using UOT that looks mostly like stock battery indicator so please here you go by putting on your /sdcard and flash using CMW
how did you do this i try many times but allways it gives error which framework-res.apk did you use?
Will this work on .42?
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Will this work on .42?
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+1 ?
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THANKS!!! and a little request
masi0 said:
I have made a battery mod using UOT that looks mostly like stock battery indicator so please here you go by putting on your /sdcard and flash using CMW
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Great!!! I have been looking for an indicator like this for a long time. Unfortunately I can hit your thanks button only once .
All apps I've seen so far put the battery indicator on the left site, or on top of the original one (however, then it is not moving along if another symbol appears, like the alarm sign). I even tried to rip it out of the HYBROM, but I didn't understand where it was.
One request: can you make it a little bit higher? There are a few pixels under and above the battery indicator, so it might be a little bigger. My eyes, you know, I'm getting old...
Title says it all. I hate the battery bar. I wish I knew how to do it myself.
I contacted the guy who posted this theme http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1366170&highlight=ics+zip the ics.zip
I wouldn't mind trying to port it over myself, I've actually been trying to figure out how the last few hours.. but I would love that theme. Mainly for the battery icon. But also for a little more ICS look.
Working on a stock-looking HTC Style battery with percentage right now. Was thinking this today when I looked at my phone and said to myself.. "I wonder where my battery is really at?"
Getting ready to install it now. Once I finish testing, if all goes well, I'll post it in a few minutes.
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Working on a stock-looking HTC Style battery with percentage right now. Was thinking this today when I looked at my phone and said to myself.. "I wonder where my battery is really at?"
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I was gonna contact the guy who made the caprombeta rom, he had battery % showing in his.. since he had his rom out so quick I imagine he must have had a quick and dirty method he could share.
I've seen a lot of people griping about the lack of an ICS look so I was considering using this thread that has a tool to port themes with the ICS.zip attached to that link I posted earlier.. it is supposed to put it into any rom(and looking at the batch file it doesn't need a whole rom, just what needs to be flashed). I would probably have it done already but I'm on my mac, and too lazy to sit at the desktop
Well here's mine. Nothing changed over stock theme except I added the percentage to the battery icon.
Also has smooth charging animations instead of the standard choppy ones and shows the current percentage between animation cycles while charging.
Used the UOT Kitchen to make it but replaced the battery images with my own. Hope you guys like it.
Just install in recovery.
Smexy background by the way
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You da man! Thank you, was so sick of guessing what % I had left after only running it 24 hours. Works great.
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Well here's mine. Nothing changed over stock theme except I added the percentage to the battery icon.
Also has smooth charging animations instead of the standard choppy ones and shows the current percentage between animation cycles while charging.
Used the UOT Kitchen to make it but replaced the battery images with my own. Hope you guys like it.
Just install in recovery.
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I was playing with UOT earlier, how did you use your own icons? I was looking for that for a WHILE..
EclipzeRemix said:
Smexy background by the way
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Attached. Just extract it from the rar. When you upload a pic as an attachment, it compresses it to a different resolution.
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I was playing with UOT earlier, how did you use your own icons? I was looking for that for a WHILE..
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It's not a feature directly implemented into the UOT Kitchen.
After the kitchen is done and you download your zip, extract the framework-res.apk from the zip.
Extract the "res" folder from the framework-res.apk and look for the directory "drawable-hdpi". In there you will find 206 images related to the battery. I replaced them all with images that matched HTC's stock battery but including percentage.
After you replace all the images to look how you want, just replace the res folder inside framework-res.apk and replace the one in the zip.
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Well here's mine. Nothing changed over stock theme except I added the percentage to the battery icon.
Also has smooth charging animations instead of the standard choppy ones and shows the current percentage between animation cycles while charging.
Used the UOT Kitchen to make it but replaced the battery images with my own. Hope you guys like it.
Just install in recovery.
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did you have to wipe /cache before you installed this?
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did you have to wipe /cache before you installed this?
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Nope. Just install, reboot and enjoy.
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Nope. Just install, reboot and enjoy.
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I did and I am! Thank you again.
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Attached. Just extract it from the rar. When you upload a pic as an attachment, it compresses it to a different resolution.
It's not a feature directly implemented into the UOT Kitchen.
After the kitchen is done and you download your zip, extract the framework-res.apk from the zip.
Extract the "res" folder from the framework-res.apk and look for the directory "drawable-hdpi". In there you will find 206 images related to the battery. I replaced them all with images that matched HTC's stock battery but including percentage.
After you replace all the images to look how you want, just replace the res folder inside framework-res.apk and replace the one in the zip.
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I got a critical error, all I needed was framework-res.apk, SystemUI.apk and com.htc.resources.apk right? So I'm wondering if we don't have a MTD update binary(I didn't think we have emmc) or if I remember right that I am supposed to recompile or sign the apk or something..
Sigh, I had it all done too
Works great.
Was hoping to use this one -
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1620376
But couldn't because I'm running this theme -
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1620331
And the update file for it still included all the other (unaltered) images which resulted in the file overwriting all the altered images from the theme lol.
Thankfully this one was put together sans all the unaltered images so it works with the theme just fine. Thanks =)
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Is there any way I can revert back to the original battery the percentage stops at 27 until my phone is almost dead
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sdizzy101 said:
Is there any way I can revert back to the original battery the percentage stops at 27 until my phone is almost dead
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Same thing here...except mine went something like this 27>26>30>28>26 but the system says my battery is 22. Is anyone else having this issue? Using dharveys battery mod
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Is there any way I can revert back to the original battery the percentage stops at 27 until my phone is almost dead
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Same thing here...except mine went something like this 27>26>30>28>26 but the system says my battery is 22. Is anyone else having this issue? Using dharveys battery mod
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That's really strange because I haven't noticed that problem. After I first installed ARHD, I noticed my battery percent in the status bar would be 2% high from the battery percent displayed in the unlock screen while unlocking.
After about 2 charge cycles and wiping the battery stats once that normalized and now I have excellent battery life and it's extremely accurate.
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That's really strange because I haven't noticed that problem. After I first installed ARHD, I noticed my battery percent in the status bar would be 2% high from the battery percent displayed in the unlock screen while unlocking.
After about 2 charge cycles and wiping the battery stats once that normalized and now I have excellent battery life and it's extremely accurate.
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Right now its 2 above the system. Ill try a few cycles and see what happens and ill report back.
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Well here's mine. Nothing changed over stock theme except I added the percentage to the battery icon.
Also has smooth charging animations instead of the standard choppy ones and shows the current percentage between animation cycles while charging.
Used the UOT Kitchen to make it but replaced the battery images with my own. Hope you guys like it.
Just install in recovery.
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Thanks for that! Super handy, especially since you can see the %age from the lock screen (why wouldn't google/htc build that in??).
One note though - using it today and it reported 9% remaining within the battery icon, but 7% through other means. Not a huge deal, but thought I'd let you know.
Massiv.