Battery percentage - AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717

Hi folks, is there any way to see the battery percentage on the Note? It appears when the phone is charging, but I'd like to see it at other times too. Is there a way to do this?
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On the stock ROM/stock theme, the only way is to go to Settings -> About Phone -> Phone Status.
You can also flash one a ROM, mod or theme that includes a percentage indicator, which you can find in the development or themes/apps forum.

Battery indicator or battery Widgets helps for now, but I heard this Widgets eat up the battery too.
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You'll have to download one of the tons of custom Android battery widgets that are found in the Play Store. That's what I'm currently using right now.

There are two I can recommend and they dont affect battery life in a noticeable amount (they use probably less than 2% in a twelve hour period which is likely not even noticeable).
The first is a free one called battery solo widget.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...xLDEsIm5ldC5tYWljYXMuYW5kcm9pZC5iYXR0ZXJ5cyJd
Its a very simple 1x1 circle that starts full and slowly removes bits of the circle as your battery get lower and lower. The colour also changes from green to yellow to red as the battery level drops and inside the circle is a clear readable number showing your battery status.
It should be noted that if you search for circle battery widget, you can find some nicer looking widgets than the one mentioned above but this is the one I used and it worked well for me (I used it for over a year on the Captivate).
However, if you are looking for something a bit more fancy, I strongly recommend Battery Monitor Widget Pro by 3C.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...ult#?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDEsImNjYzcxLmJtdy5wcm8iXQ..
Features everything you could possibly want to know about your battery status, tons of graphs and charts, whats been eating your battery, statistical information, temp, etc. It has a very nice widget that is very customizable.
3C also has another app called system tuner pro that is essentially the same thing for everything else (cpu, ram, gpu, etc). I strongly recommend BOTH apps, my main homescreen has both Battery Monitor Widget and System Tuner Pro.

Thanks for all the info guys! I went with solo widget for now.
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Jasmynsway said:
Hi folks, is there any way to see the battery percentage on the Note? It appears when the phone is charging, but I'd like to see it at other times too. Is there a way to do this?
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I use battery circle. its FREE, simple, easy to use and it works. http://bit.ly/GPf4pK

If you're rooted, cook up a simple battery icon mod in UOT kitchen. Pretty straightforward.
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I don't understand why its never included with stock.
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gotshoaib said:
Battery indicator or battery Widgets helps for now, but I heard this Widgets eat up the battery too.
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Yeap, most widgets are "Live", meaning they update, and depending on the interval, could and does use up some battery.
cmjkxa said:
I don't understand why its never included with stock.
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I know this thread is old, but I came across it. i have been using Badass Battery Monitor for a few months on multiple devices and it is great for this purpose, without noticeable battery drain

I use Battery Indicator Pro. Works great!

It looks like battery percentage will be included on the official ICS release - I've loaded three of them so far, and every one of them has had an option to "Display Battery Percentage" under display settings.

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[Q] XT910: Battery measure in 10% steps?

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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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.
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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!
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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

cm7 battery life

I been running cm7 for about two months. And idk y the battery life has gotten a lot worse the past week or two! At first it was good I'm trying to figure out y its gotten so bad now. I checked the battery stats and nothing really sticks out as a battery hog (nothing not normal) . Any suggestions of what I can do?
Mine seems to be the same. Have you added any new mods or apps?
I've only added one new app. Draw something.
I've been thinking about trying the mash up mod to see if it helps.
Yeah. New thread old topic. Lol. Battery saver, juice defender....
Cyanogenmod
Thanx. I've tried some stuff like that b4. Don't really like em. and not really the answer I was looking for. Maybe I worded it wrong. But what I was trying to ask is y is the battery life suddenly so much worse. For the first month and a half battery life was great now its sux!
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I been running cm7 for about two months. And idk y the battery life has gotten a lot worse the past week or two! At first it was good I'm trying to figure out y its gotten so bad now. I checked the battery stats and nothing really sticks out as a battery hog (nothing not normal) . Any suggestions of what I can do?
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Are you doing anything different with the phone as far as using an app a lot more than before? Definitely playing games will chew up battery life.
Have you left something on, like Blue-Tooth, etc? I know GPS doesn't really eat up battery life as it only is used when an app uses it.
Have you investigated the new app to see what it does? Is that when you saw the battery life start to go down?
Nothing out of the normal. I am a heavy user. And I don't play games that often. But I found out last nite in spare parts that Facebook is not letting my phone sleep like it should when not in use. I definitely think this is the prob. Imma turn off the refresh completely see if it helps. Thanx
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It that isn't the problem idk what it is. Cause nothing has changed. The app draw something isn't running all the time either.
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I am not currently running Cyanogenmod but I did for a long while. When I was I got great battery life with it constantly. My advice to you would be to wipe and reflash CM7 making sure you wipe dalvik and cache. If that doesn't do you justice, personally I'd SBF and have a super clean redo. And one quick thing, I would never use a "Battery Saving" app, they really aren't the greatest. Each phone is different and I don't believe a single app is capable of saving your battery without some drawbacks. Good luck!
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did you happen to update Google maps?
for some reason the newest version keeps holding a wake lock for network location, I uninstall updates on it AMD turn off vzw location and now it doesn't run constantly
I used the app, better battery stats to see what was causing the phone to wake so often from sleep, when idle
it didn't show in the stock battery stats tho
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I don't play draw something, but doesn't that refresh in background also or does it only connect when you open it?
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The draw something app doesn't have notifications or anything. I don't think it runs in the background. It shows nothing of it in the battery stats.
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Do you have 'Allow Purging of Assets' enabled?
Settings/ Cm settings / Performance Settings
Then check the box. It functions kind of like (and im being loose) an app killer and really does make a difference.
Just recently, I got rid of my battery saver and task killer and I swear to god my battery life has doubled; it's been fantastic.
Ive also got the Mash Up mod going, which if I might add, really clears up data problems and makes it noticeably faster.

[Q] Battery Percentage

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
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Try Battery Circle fo' sure

Better battery life for Android system?

I've seen a lot of users' postings of battery statistics (screen shots) and they are all considerably better than what I am getting. The biggest difference I see is in the amount of battery drain from "Android System." What I see posted is between 9% and 13%. However, my batt stats show the Android System draining 60% of the battery.
So, what am I doing wrong? I'm still kind of new to Android. Is it the widgets? I've checked running processes verses what apps are draining battery life and nothing is running that drains like the system does.
Further info: I am currently running the 7.18.12 build of Diet ICS, but I was seeing this behavior on stock as well. Some widgets I use: Astrid premium tasks widget, Evernote, doubletwist, slacker, 3D clock/weather, a widgetsoid switcher, and APW Calendar.
Thanks for any help or suggestions.
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How much screen on time over how long and what kind of use?
60% is high but there's known bugs in android OS reporting.
I'm asking because you we're saying your new. It takes a lot of power to power this 4.8 screen
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natefish said:
I've seen a lot of users' postings of battery statistics (screen shots) and they are all considerably better than what I am getting. The biggest difference I see is in the amount of battery drain from "Android System." What I see posted is between 9% and 13%. However, my batt stats show the Android System draining 60% of the battery.
So, what am I doing wrong? I'm still kind of new to Android. Is it the widgets? I've checked running processes verses what apps are draining battery life and nothing is running that drains like the system does.
Further info: I am currently running the 7.18.12 build of Diet ICS, but I was seeing this behavior on stock as well. Some widgets I use: Astrid premium tasks widget, Evernote, doubletwist, slacker, 3D clock/weather, a widgetsoid switcher, and APW Calendar.
Thanks for any help or suggestions.
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How often do your widgets that gather info refresh? Try scaling down on some widgets and see if that helps. If not, try to flash stock with odin and start over. I was having some problems with my phone when I first got it (MTP specifically) and I falshed stock and everything started working fine. Also, if you are using Google Chrome, make sure you have the experimental feature of using the gyroscope for tilt scrolling set to off....it is known to drain battery.
Hope this helps :good:
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How often do your widgets that gather info refresh? Try scaling down on some widgets and see if that helps. If not, try to flash stock with odin and start over. I was having some problems with my phone when I first got it (MTP specifically) and I falshed stock and everything started working fine. Also, if you are using Google Chrome, make sure you have the experimental feature of using the gyroscope for tilt scrolling set to off....it is known to drain battery.
Hope this helps :good:
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Maybe I will try flashing stock if I have time today. I reset my battery stats in recovery mode when I took the phone off the charger this morning, so we'll see how today goes.
I looked into the widgets and the only one that refreshes data on a schedule is the clock/weather. I'll try a different one or just not use the weather.
Great tip about Chrome. Didn't know it did that.
Do I actually need to calibrate the battery? I tried the method of letting it die and charge back up a few times and I've tried recharging once it gets down between 70-80 percents life. I'm not sure which method helped, but I did notice an improvement.
Thanks again for the help.
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mike216 said:
How much screen on time over how long and what kind of use?
60% is high but there's known bugs in android OS reporting.
I'm asking because you we're saying your new. It takes a lot of power to power this 4.8 screen
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Not sure how to know how long the screen was on. Is there a way to know that? If I had to guess I'd say 4 hours. I use the Smart Stay option as well. I wonder if wiping the stats will give me more valid data.
Thank you for the help.
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natefish said:
Not sure how to know how long the screen was on. Is there a way to know that? If I had to guess I'd say 4 hours. I use the Smart Stay option as well. I wonder if wiping the stats will give me more valid data.
Thank you for the help.
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settings>battery>click on the gray use bar & you can see screen on time.
It is because you are running touchjizz. Cm and aokp are the best :highfive:
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I have my display off auto-brightness and on a low setting, I probably utilize the task manager 50x a day and clear the ram as well, cpu sleeper is always activated, gps/sync/auto-rotate/wifi/bluetooth is always off unless I need them, and I have power saving mode on most of the time.
With all these settings off and I am a heavy texter/caller/browser/emailer, my battery lasts from 7AM-1AM and I am at 30-40% at the end of the day!
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StNtMaN said:
I have my display off auto-brightness and on a low setting, I probably utilize the task manager 50x a day and clear the ram as well, cpu sleeper is always activated, gps/sync/auto-rotate/wifi/bluetooth is always off unless I need them, and I have power saving mode on most of the time.
With all these settings off and I am a heavy texter/caller/browser/emailer, my battery lasts from 7AM-1AM and I am at 30-40% at the end of the day!
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Great advice. Thanks. What do you use for "cpu sleeper"?
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StNtMaN said:
I have my display off auto-brightness and on a low setting, I probably utilize the task manager 50x a day and clear the ram as well, cpu sleeper is always activated, gps/sync/auto-rotate/wifi/bluetooth is always off unless I need them, and I have power saving mode on most of the time.
With all these settings off and I am a heavy texter/caller/browser/emailer, my battery lasts from 7AM-1AM and I am at 30-40% at the end of the day!
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Never mind! Just searched" CPU sleeper" on the Play store and--voila!
On another note, I'm so glad I got a device with a huge support community. Coming from iOS, it's nice to feel part of a collective effort again and get such great advice. I know there are a lot of iOS forums and there is some great work done through those communities, but those seem so trivial compared to what is done through XDA and the level of helpfulness is unparalleled here.
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Great advice. Thanks. What do you use for "cpu sleeper"?
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natefish said:
Do I actually need to calibrate the battery? I tried the method of letting it die and charge back up a few times and I've tried recharging once it gets down between 70-80 percents life. I'm not sure which method helped, but I did notice an improvement.
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I read somewhere in the forum that these batteries actually like to be constantly charged up and not let die completely. There was no explanation for this but I will research it because I am curious. With my old Captivate, i let it die then fully charge to extend the overall life of the battery.
How is your battery so far?
KappaG9 said:
I read somewhere in the forum that these batteries actually like to be constantly charged up and not let die completely. There was no explanation for this but I will research it because I am curious. With my old Captivate, i let it die then fully charge to extend the overall life of the battery.
How is your battery so far?
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I've applied all the tricks folks have shared here and have flashed the Diet ICS rom. I am going to take screen shots of my usage data on a daily basis and see how things fair. I'll post my results here. Here is one from last night before really getting into all the tricks and the new rom. So, maybe this is my "before" shot in this documentary of a noob's journey to better battery life.
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natefish said:
I've seen a lot of users' postings of battery statistics (screen shots) and they are all considerably better than what I am getting. The biggest difference I see is in the amount of battery drain from "Android System." What I see posted is between 9% and 13%. However, my batt stats show the Android System draining 60% of the battery.
So, what am I doing wrong? I'm still kind of new to Android. Is it the widgets? I've checked running processes verses what apps are draining battery life and nothing is running that drains like the system does.
Further info: I am currently running the 7.18.12 build of Diet ICS, but I was seeing this behavior on stock as well. Some widgets I use: Astrid premium tasks widget, Evernote, doubletwist, slacker, 3D clock/weather, a widgetsoid switcher, and APW Calendar.
Thanks for any help or suggestions.
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Have you tried using the CPU Sleeper app?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1745516
I found that it does a great job of preserving battery life when the phone is in standby. I used to notice my battery draining really fast over short periods on standby (phone would be hot to the touch). After installing this, I have not encountered that problem again. I get 16-20 hours of use on moderate usage. LTE, gps, and sync are always enabled. I DO NOT have the phone in power saving mode and I seldom use wifi. I used to get 10-12 hours of battery life on the same usage before. I am running the rooted version of the stock rom from my carrier.
CPU sleeper app works great for me. I am in a non LTE area but get incredible battery life, last all day usually with around 50% left. An order of magnitude better than my SGS2
jauwad.arshad said:
Have you tried using the CPU Sleeper app?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1745516
I found that it does a great job of preserving battery life when the phone is in standby. I used to notice my battery draining really fast over short periods on standby (phone would be hot to the touch). After installing this, I have not encountered that problem again. I get 16-20 hours of use on moderate usage. LTE, gps, and sync are always enabled. I DO NOT have the phone in power saving mode and I seldom use wifi. I used to get 10-12 hours of battery life on the same usage before. I am running the rooted version of the stock rom from my carrier.
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CPU sleeper app works great for me. I am in a non LTE area but get incredible battery life, last all day usually with around 50% left. An order of magnitude better than my SGS2
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I am using CPU Sleeper now, thanks to the advice of a previous poster on page 1. Good to hear it works for others.
I had the SGS2 as well and the S3 is definitely better.
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Hi all,
I also notice this and this were the steps that I did and seems to help me to reduce this process to like 5 %. I'm on Sprint S3 but should be the same for the all carriers.
Go ahead and open Talk application. You should see your account in green (I'm not using this application) then hit the menu and then select sigh Off. Make sure that your account changes to Offline (sometimes it is change back it self so open one more time make sure that it says Offline). Then what else I change is in wi-fi advanced options: under Keep Wi-Fi on during sleep I choose Only when plugged in option. then I reboot the phone and from now on (almost 2 days) my Android system process show up only 5% of usage and my battery life improve significantly. I hope this will helps.
Thanks
Those are great tips. Thanks. I will say I've gotten increasingly better life since employing other tips discussed here.
Something else I did was download a profile changing app. I got Quick Profiles, but anything should do. If anyone uses anything better, please share. I have a profile for power saving that turns down my brightness, and turns off wifi and Bluetooth. The app will let you put shortcuts on the home screen to instantly change the profile. I'd like to find one, however, that will also turn off gps and mobile data.

Why do stock battery icons never show percentage?

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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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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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!
Sent via LG P690 CyanogenMod 7.2 using XDA Premium
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
Sent from the current Heavyweight Champ Galaxy SIII
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
Sent from the current Heavyweight Champ Galaxy SIII

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