Here is an 1% Accurate Battery Indicator – Reports 1%
Works with the 2.3.3 upgrade
I have been ruuning this app for about 24 hours and it is working GREAT!
Battery Circle' displays the current battery capacity in your status bar.
- Supports both black and white statusbars (outlined font)
- For HDPI and lowres devices
- 1% step support for Defy (and other Motorola phones!)
- Does not drain battery (receives battery broadcasts)
- Opensource (GPLv2)
- Does *not* replace existing battery icon
https://market.android.com/details?id=ch.blinkenlights.battery&feature=search_result
Give this a try and please report back. I will also continue to test to see if the burns the battery.
Hmm neat little app ill give a try and see how it works. Now I have 3 battery indicators..
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My battery meter is way off my actual batery level? When I have 25 percent, the battery meter will show over half?... I have tried the "recalibrate your battery" tutorial...however it does not work..
I am running stock android 2.1 please help
Thanks, mike
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Are you on the stock vibrant firmware? If you are, there is nothing you can do, the battery icon just sucks.
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2. There are battery mods to correct this
3. I kind of like it that way. Placebo for awesome battery life
4. What's a SGH-T959D?
kangxi said:
1. Wrong section
2. There are battery mods to correct this
3. I kind of like it that way. Placebo for awesome battery life
4. What's a SGH-T959D?
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Canadian Telus Fascinate (Vibrant, with Normal North American 3G instead of AWS. )
Basically, Captibrant.
But I call it the Fascibrant, since telus calls it the fascinate but it's really a modified Vibrant.
Mbuxx said:
My battery meter is way off my actual batery level? When I have 25 percent, the battery meter will show over half?... I have tried the "recalibrate your battery" tutorial...however it does not work..
I am running stock android 2.1 please help
Thanks, mike
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"Battery recalibration" can cause the problem that you describe. I have written a technical description of this at:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/12962476/Battery_Conditioniing/Battery_Conditioning.pdf
It is likely that clearing your battery stats and then rapidly discharging has biased your battery stat tables away from the reality of a normal discharge cycle. If so, that condition will correct itself over time (days or weeks). To correct it more quickly, I suggest that you discharge your phone completely and then clear battery stats as soon as you plug it in to charge. (That is, discharge completely, plug into charger, boot immediately, then clear battery stats immediately.) Then just use your phone normally and the battery stat tables will rebuild themselves over a few days according to your particular usage patterns. The battery meter should become increasingly accurate as the tables rebuild.
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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Hi Razr-Users,
I stumbled upon a review, which said that the Razr measures the battery life in 10%-steps. Even with apps, that replace the battery icon, it will still show the steps in 10%. The fact, that I read this just one time in a review, makes me wonder if this is true.
Can somebody confirm this for the Razr XT910?
I read that review too, but they are wrong.
I use Circle Battery Widget, and it shows perfectly in 1 % increments.
Actually, I'm very positively surprised by the battery performance.
There is a long thread in the Atrix subforum where a guy called shoux found a way how to modify services.jar and framework-res.apk in order to have the stock battery icon displaying 1% increments as well. I already sent him a note and asked him if he could do the same changes to the Razr's files if I would send them to him. Maybe he can help us out.
Need to deodex to have this feature
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If you want a taskbar icon in 1% increments you can use the battery circle app (free on market).
I have the app, but how do I put the icon in the task bar? Thanks!
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nubia11 said:
I have the app, but how do I put the icon in the task bar? Thanks!
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Do you have the battery cirgle application? You don' have to do anything, it places the icon automaticaly
I'm not sure that they would change measuring algorithm just on Razor, cuz it depends on the Android system mostly and on the battery controller in the phone. Definitely in 1%.
Yes it's the battery circle app. But I see nothing I. The task bar..... Hmmm
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battery circle doesnt show 100%, is that correcT? it only shows max 99% for the razr even with battery wipe stats.
It showed 100% for me. I just waited a little longer when the stock icon already reached 100%.
rivmin said:
I read that review too, but they are wrong.
I use Circle Battery Widget, and it shows perfectly in 1 % increments.
Actually, I'm very positively surprised by the battery performance.
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Thanks a lot, I already thought that this is more like the Razr. Even though most of the reviews mention poor battery performance, I'm still waiting for some posts about the reallife performance.
BigBlue007 said:
There is a long thread in the Atrix subforum where a guy called shoux found a way how to modify services.jar and framework-res.apk in order to have the stock battery icon displaying 1% increments as well. I already sent him a note and asked him if he could do the same changes to the Razr's files if I would send them to him. Maybe he can help us out.
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That would be great, very nice!
polaris441 said:
Need to deodex to have this feature
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kk, will consider that, when I have it. Thanks!
tsourisg said:
If you want a taskbar icon in 1% increments you can use the battery circle app (free on market).
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Will have a look into it, sounds good.
@all: Thanks a lot for the infos!
Its weird. A few apps that I have used on multiple other android devices are reporting the battery level only in 10% increments. The circle battery app does show the correct percentage but why do these other apps not show the correct percentage? Whats different about the Razr from every other phone?
The two apps i'm referring to that show 10% increments are:
SiMi Clock Widget
BatteryLife
Can someone else try these and tell me if they have an answer to why they arn't working correctly. I would like to use the SiMi Clock Widget if we can figure out why the battery is only showing at 10% increments.
Here you can find a good explanation why this is.
You can only change the increments of the battery with a custom rom.
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You can only change the increments of the battery with a custom rom.
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I have installed the BatteryLife app on multiple devices with stock roms on them and the battery increment has always been at 1% intervals. The Razr is the first phone (or tablet) I have seen that does it by 10%. So again why is the Razr different?
My XT910, running Stock 4.0.4. rom is also displaying battery levels in 10% increments. Anyone find out more about this?
Thanks
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.
So - I like to see my battery percentage on the top bar on my Razr. But - so far, every app I have found only shows in 10% increments. Any way to change this?
Battery indicator pro has an option for 1% battery increments, it's in the "other settings" menu towards the bottom.
Try battery monitor widget. Works on mine!
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Quicker also works
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Don't know about the others mentioned, but battery indicator pro also has a nice home screen lock on/off toggle. Nice bonus IMHO. Love that feature. Great app!
Batter circle was my favorite choice for batter percentage.
Battery indicator. Free. Works. Minimal ram usage...under 4mb
JDunc said:
Batter circle was my favorite choice for batter percentage.
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Try Battery Circle fo' sure