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I've been trying to port the Super Circle Battery with % and I got as far as getting it show on the hero (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=7429745&postcount=11). But when the battery depletes, the meter is stuck on 100 until the actual battery percentage is below 90 then it shows 80 on the meter.
I know that the original battery goes in increments of 20, but seeing as Fightspit got it working on Desire in increments of one, I was wondering if the same is doable for our beloved Hero?
[EDIT] AFAIK this works for CM-based ROM's, or at least there's a workaround through Spare Parts that allow one to add a text overlay to the battery with percentage going in increments of one. I'm not sure that they're related, seeing as the same pictures going in steps of 20 are still in the background. [END OF EDIT]
I hope that makes sense to you
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I have VanillaEclair and there are spare parts setting on integrated spare part to show exact battery precentage on battery icon.
I did little googling and I believe that CM and CM based ROM's often does have this possibility to tweak user interface on integrated spare parts.
It's working great, however I don't know if it's possible on sense.
Mehumummo said:
I have VanillaEclair and there are spare parts setting on integrated spare part to show exact battery precentage on battery icon.
I did little googling and I believe that CM and CM based ROM's often does have this possibility to tweak user interface on integrated spare parts.
It's working great, however I don't know if it's possible on sense.
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Yeah, I forgot about mentioning I meant for Sense-based ROM's. Seeing as it has been done on Hero before, I hope that it'd be possible to achieve on a ROM that's not Vanilla/CM.
I will clarify that I'm talking about Sense ROM's
I flashed nerov3 and now ive got that plain little green battery indicator. Isnt there a way to spruce that up, make it show a percentage?
Go to the themes and apps section and flash Slightly Better Gingerbread. It really cleans up the look of Nero, and includes a percentage battery.
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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Is there an app/widget that shows the following battery information?
% drain/ hr.
% drain since last charge
Time of last charge
# of hours and minutes since last charge
Battery Circle provides some of this information but since I'm running Joker's SkinnyRev1 ROM with the battery fix, I don't want two battery % icons in the status bar.
sjamie said:
Is there an app/widget that shows the following battery information?
% drain/ hr.
% drain since last charge
Time of last charge
# of hours and minutes since last charge
Battery Circle provides some of this information but since I'm running Joker's SkinnyRev1 ROM with the battery fix, I don't want two battery % icons in the status bar.
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I think Juice Plotter might be a good one..but then again...the widget might just drain more battery.
Thanks, I'll check it out!
try battery mix. It gives all of the info you'are looking for.
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Battery Mix looks pretty good. Thank you.
its not exactly what your looking for, but i use and really like "battery left". nice little widget too
lroy said:
its not exactly what your looking for, but i use and really like "battery left". nice little widget too
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It looks pretty good.
I know we can use widgets or change the status bar one with UOT, but it seems ludicrous to imagine such a simple feature hasn't become standard. Is there some patent troll that is keeping devices from having the battery percentage in the system bar? I see no other legitimate reason.
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I know we can use widgets or change the status bar one with UOT, but it seems ludicrous to imagine such a simple feature hasn't become standard. Is there some patent troll that is keeping devices from having the battery percentage in the system bar? I see no other legitimate reason.
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That is a really good question actually. You have me wondering the same thing now. I know on my girlfriend's iPhone 4s she can set her battery display to show a percentage. I wonder if Apple has a patent on that for smart phones ...ridiculous if they do.
wellll guys....its android and not a****ing iphone
so accept it or install cyanogenmod as far as i know it supports what u want
I have an answer which you might find interesting...
I was testing a custom rom, which had a lot of users complaining and incessantly whining about "battery drain"...
But I never felt any such drain...
We were actually surprised that, users had their battery percentages "drain" from 100 to 60 in 4 hours (they used batt %), after which they charged their phone...
I, on the other hand, didn't take notice of the battery step (present in the stock icon)...
I used to charge my phone after 10 hours with around 10% batt left...
I then asked another fellow user to use stock batt icon, rather than the % icon...
And miraculously, his battery drain was minimized...(by just changing a damned icon)...same confirmed with a few others...
So we could conclude that, the battery drain was happening due to the % icon, and used to vanish/minimize when using the stock icon...
Hence, it was attributed to a placebo effect...
You thought that battery was draining because the numbers between 1 - 100 are going down...while the stock icon ignores battery movement lesser than 10%...
It isn't anything other than your mind telling you that battery is going down...
I do not know the "official" reason why it never made it to stock android...
But if you are willing, just try it out...
Without changing your daily usage and apps, spend a few days with the stock icon, and then a few days with the % icon...
The result, still might be really subjective, but well, this is what I could find...
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a.cid said:
I have an answer which you might find interesting...
I was testing a custom rom, which had a lot of users complaining and incessantly whining about "battery drain"...
But I never felt any such drain...
We were actually surprised that, users had their battery percentages "drain" from 100 to 60 in 4 hours (they used batt %), after which they charged their phone...
I, on the other hand, didn't take notice of the battery step (present in the stock icon)...
I used to charge my phone after 10 hours with around 10% batt left...
I then asked another fellow user to use stock batt icon, rather than the % icon...
And miraculously, his battery drain was minimized...(by just changing a damned icon)...same confirmed with a few others...
So we could conclude that, the battery drain was happening due to the % icon, and used to vanish/minimize when using the stock icon...
Hence, it was attributed to a placebo effect...
You thought that battery was draining because the numbers between 1 - 100 are going down...while the stock icon ignores battery movement lesser than 10%...
It isn't anything other than your mind telling you that battery is going down...
I do not know the "official" reason why it never made it to stock android...
But if you are willing, just try it out...
Without changing your daily usage and apps, spend a few days with the stock icon, and then a few days with the % icon...
The result, still might be really subjective, but well, this is what I could find...
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Yap... some months ago eard something quiet similar to this state...
a guy postet that he installed an battery widget from the play store
after a while he had big problems because his battery was gettin empty very fast
so one other guy told him to look under settings in the battery context menu wich were his biggest battery drainers
and who could have imagined this on top was the battery widget
after he unsinstalled the widget his problems were vanished
so guys
accept that u have a battery without percentage but a battery drain in a size where u cant watch the amount of battery power percentage falling from one second to the other
so please accept it
No, I never used a batt widget...
There was option to have either % icon, or the stock one, baked into the rom itself...
So there wasn't any battery drain related to rogue apps...
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a.cid said:
No, I never used a batt widget...
There was option to have either % icon, or the stock one, baked into the rom itself...
So there wasn't any battery drain related to rogue apps...
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i know.....i just thought i would fit to the topic
It's a standard feature in ICS to display battery percentage.
Settings > Display > Display Battery Percentage
ingenious247 said:
It's a standard feature in ICS to display battery percentage.
Settings > Display > Display Battery Percentage
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im only using cm9 my phone does not have any stock ics rom
nevertheless...if ure battery drain starts incresing after u changed to percentag view u know why
Saito Forte said:
I know we can use widgets or change the status bar one with UOT, but it seems ludicrous to imagine such a simple feature hasn't become standard. Is there some patent troll that is keeping devices from having the battery percentage in the system bar? I see no other legitimate reason.
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Take a look at this,
jiffer1991 said:
wellll guys....its android and not a****ing iphone
so accept it or install cyanogenmod as far as i know it supports what u want
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Hehe, cm's the best!
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jiffer1991 said:
im only using cm9 my phone does not have any stock ics rom
nevertheless...if ure battery drain starts incresing after u changed to percentag view u know why
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I've always displayed percentage and I get about 12-16 hours of battery life depending on how I use my phone that day
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my man its pretty simple
the people at android dont like puttin percentages and i think it would look pretty small and unreadable
Looks readable to me
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