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Does anybody know if there is a Today Screen plugin which monitors the charging uptime?
History for my question:
I changed my car and the new Board Computer (BC) doesn't show the time from starting the engine (my previous car BC did it). It was a nice feature and so I thought this could be done by my PocketPC (MDAc) starting the uptime clock when I put it into my active Brodit holder in my car....
You could try this
You could try this software.
Looks good. Will try it. Thanx for your quick response.
I could find any setting in this application to start the clock when charging. Only reset the counter to zero when charging.
Any other apps?
No software available for my request?
sounds like a pretty specific program you want
maybe you should have somebody custom make it for you
seemed to be so.
but is a today screen which displays the charging time such a special thing?
donno never heard about it before
nor have i ever wanted for it before
Contactor-E - it could be written easily enough, but I'm afraid I have no time right now, setting up my website and finishing off another ton of stuff for you guys.
I assume that someone's written one, but I really can't think of one...
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I will try to start programming my application...
I'll report here about my success.
Some of what you want may be displayed with Beemer's TodayWarrior:
http://personales.ya.com/beemer/todaywarrior1.htm
There are various toggle icons that show: battery %, elapsed time from last charge, charging, estimated remaining battery time, time to 100% charge, battery volts, current (mA), consumption (mW), temperature. There are also icons for power off, always on, etc.
However, I had problems with its WiFi monitoring side (this can be disabled). It would detect the WLAN, but then hang the application and Xda Exec. The extra WiFiKnife utility didn't work, however, my problems may have been because I ran it from SD-card - haven't had time to test further.
Thank you, but TodayWarrior does not support showing the charging time. Only "Charging" is displayed when connected on power.
here's one
it shows the charging time as well as the time running on batteries. also shows battery indicator and device active time (time the device is turned ON and not sleeping).
it can hide or change its size when running on batteries/charging to save screen space.
you can customize it separately for charging/batteries
see screen shorts
have fun.
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CAB file removed, get the newer one below
Re: here's one
Slight slip up here, this file is actually a RAR-archive and NOT a ZIP-archive. After downloading it, rename the extension from .zip to .rar.
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astage said:
Slight slip up here, this file is actually a RAR-archive and NOT a ZIP-archive. After downloading it, rename the extension from .zip to .rar.
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thanks, RAR did what I told it to do and not what I wanted it to do
Tried this on Windows Mobile 5, on the O2 Exec (Universal), and couldn't get it to do anything at all.
Hi zfiser!
Works GREAT !!!!!!!!!!! on my MDA compact !!!!
Wow!!!!!!!
Just installed but seems that this is the application I looked for!!!!!!!
Whrer did you find this app? Did you program it?
Do you know what the plugin number is for?
Thanks again!!!
Yes Works great on my Qtek 9100 under WM 5.0
Thanks for this app
The plugin number is to indicate the height you want for the plugin on the today page.
UPDATE
all right guys, since actually 3 people got it and 2 even got it working, I decided to spent some more hours on it. it's quite fun actually.
so, what is new?
1) AUTOSIZE - the plugin automatically decides its height based on your setting. You can still manually override it.
2) ACTUAL CHARGING TIME - now showing time it's plugged in to outlet and also time the battery was charged for. when the battery is fully charged the time stops and you can see how long it took to charge it.
3) ICONS! yea! I think that's pretty cool, saving you a lot of space on the screen while showing everything, plus it looks freaking awesome!
4) more options - the plug can turn itself to color red when the battery level falls under a certain percentage, set by you. now you can't overlook that your battery is almost dead
5) BUGFIXES, yea, that nasty bug not showing minutes, I noticed too, some minor tweaks
Checkout the screenshots! And have fun. And if you still miss something in this plugin (tetris, nude women, etc), let me know
IMPORTANT NOTICE: You MUST disable the plugin in TODAY screen setting (uncheck the checkbox) BEFORE upgrading. Make sure the plugin does not show on the Today screen before you upgrade!
I made the upgrade this morning => no problem
I just want to say that I had to make a soft reset after installation otherwise the plugin didn't show on today screen.
You've done big improvments since the first version
- good idea the icons to save place
- thanks for the autosize
- I'm going to test it this wee-end but no bug at this time
- what about a log file to keep trace of every data that zfTCT record ? Could be useful I think.
Hello,
please help me find a program that would be a today plugin, that can calculate battery state percentage from it's voltage measuring.
Thanks.
Today Warrior does it; I'm sure that there are many others. Go look at the plugin section at pocketpcfreeware.com.
Thank you for your reply.
The program that you showed, like many others, do not perform as I want.
The battery driver can return battery percentage and battery voltage. The problem is, battery driver for my device shows only 1%, 25%, 50%, 75%, 100% grade, while voltage lowers smoothly. So I need a program that can calculate the battery percentage on its own, not tajen from a driver.
Does anyone know such a program as a Today plugin?
Thanks.
Vista Hide battery gauge
Go here
http://www.freewarepocketpc.net/ppc-download-vistahide-battery-gauge-v1-1-1.html
it shows the battery gauge smoothly! and will always remain above all your programs.
hope this helps!
I have problem on my Note 10.1,.when is my battery on 5 % i get low brightness.Does anyone know how to fix this,to set brightness on max when is battery low????
Samsung galaxy note 10.1 n8000 4.1.2
dekar123 said:
I have problem on my Note 10.1,.when is my battery on 5 % i get low brightness.Does anyone know how to fix this,to set brightness on max when is battery low????
Samsung galaxy note 10.1 n8000 4.1.2
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that's a feature. Charge it
shaun298 said:
that's a feature. Charge it
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how???? im unable to change brightness when battery is 5 %
dekar123 said:
how???? im unable to change brightness when battery is 5 %
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Dud, just charge it up.
Aluyi said:
Dud, just charge it up.
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It's not a solution,my chinese 9` inch tablet whith 5 % off battery could stand mabye 20 minutes,is that on all note 10`1 tablets???
Does anyone know how to get full brightness when my battery is 5 %???????
There is no way to change it.
It propably protects the battery to become too empty without getting your device plugged in time. "Too empty" means that sometimes if you drain your litium battery empty totally, it wont start to charge it at all. So it is there for protecting you and your device without having next problem not being able to charge it.
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There is no way to change it.
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Have you ever investigated this subject that you are so sure? If you cannot do it - don't assume that no one can.
I don't also see any relation between dimming the screen and protecting the battery of getting broken. If 5% level is a level on which the battery should be charged because of the damage risk, then it would be absurd to dim the screen (ie take an action aimed at saving the remaining power so the user can work a few minutes longer on the last remaining 5% until it reaches 0 or 1% = drain battery even more = in your theory: increasing the risk of the damage even more), and not to turn off the device at all. Be aware, that Samsung indeed implemented a protection aimed to secure the user of the risk of breaking the battery (well, I don't think it's the clue anyway - iI guess the main purpose is in preserving user of data loss/filesystem corruption, which is possible to occur when the system is being shutdown in an "immediate" way, without chance to perform shutdown sequence properly) due to full discharge, but it is triggered on 0 - 1% level and is resulting in starting a "regular" system shutdown, aimed mainly to save all the working data before user loses it *** See comment at the very end of my post for additional info about changing this behavior, which is confirmed to work by myself...
It is almost ALWAYS possible to mod behavior of the system, especially by decompiling system apps and modyfing smali, which is not extremely difficult/impossible by the way, as the community has released such a solutions for many issues/feature requests, concerning even n8000 itself (ink lockscreen, syscope disable, power menu, flashable themes...).
In this case, I can see another possibility, which is even less intrusive to the system; AFAIR the percentage level of 5% is not embedded in some system or framework app, but it is defined in one of the system's apps preferences (guess settings provider? dont remember...), in sqlite database. And sqlite database can be easily accessed and its content can be modified by sqlite tools, ie sqlite3 binary from command line, and even some apps from play store. Then, you shall be able to lower the value to, for example, 1%, so the screen backlight will be turned off with further delay, ie. at REALLY critical power level of 1%..
EDIT: Didn't found above setting, dont have time for this, but found another one (at database lying at com.android.provider.settings) - "dim_screen" which is set 1 by default. Maybe changing it to 0 with any SQL editor will force NOT to dim screen at all.
An for the begin, I have a solution that is very very very possible to work...
As for now, I have not tested it, especially if the critical battery level setting (default 5%) has direct relation to the battery level on which screen is dimmed, but I am ALMOST sure about it, as the crtitical level setting that I am talking about (no matter where it is stored...) is recognized system-wide.
Oh, almost forgot, the solution!!!
Install Xposed Framework (search for it on xda if u dunno what it is) + module XBatteryThemer - apart of other options, it has the option to lower critical battery level (as well as two other levels, which determine displaying the low battery alert popup) to as low as 1%. Your screen shall no longer dim at 5%.
*** actually, there is another one Xposed module (CriticalBatteryShutdown, or something...?) which can force the device not to turn off when battery reaches some level between 0 and 1%, which is arbitrary action by default. With this mod the device is working untile theres really no power left, which sometimes can give you additional 10 minutes. A
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Does anyone know how to get full brightness when my battery is 5 %???????
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Please correct me if I´m wrong, does that make sense to you if your battery is 5% and you thinking of raising the slider higher ? Maybe you should check your energy saving settings. My two cents.
esgie said:
Have you ever investigated this subject that you are so sure? If you cannot do it - don't assume that no one can.
I don't also see any relation between dimming the screen and protecting the battery of getting broken. If 5% level is a level on which the battery should be charged because of the damage risk, then it would be absurd to dim the screen (ie take an action aimed at saving the remaining power so the user can work a few minutes longer on the last remaining 5% until it reaches 0 or 1% = drain battery even more = in your theory: increasing the risk of the damage even more), and not to turn off the device at all. Be aware, that Samsung indeed implemented a protection aimed to secure the user of the risk of breaking the battery (well, I don't think it's the clue anyway - iI guess the main purpose is in preserving user of data loss/filesystem corruption, which is possible to occur when the system is being shutdown in an "immediate" way, without chance to perform shutdown sequence properly) due to full discharge, but it is triggered on 0 - 1% level and is resulting in starting a "regular" system shutdown, aimed mainly to save all the working data before user loses it *** See comment at the very end of my post for additional info about changing this behavior, which is confirmed to work by myself...
It is almost ALWAYS possible to mod behavior of the system, especially by decompiling system apps and modyfing smali, which is not extremely difficult/impossible by the way, as the community has released such a solutions for many issues/feature requests, concerning even n8000 itself (ink lockscreen, syscope disable, power menu, flashable themes...).
In this case, I can see another possibility, which is even less intrusive to the system; AFAIR the percentage level of 5% is not embedded in some system or framework app, but it is defined in one of the system's apps preferences (guess settings provider? dont remember...), in sqlite database. And sqlite database can be easily accessed and its content can be modified by sqlite tools, ie sqlite3 binary from command line, and even some apps from play store. Then, you shall be able to lower the value to, for example, 1%, so the screen backlight will be turned off with further delay, ie. at REALLY critical power level of 1%..
EDIT: Didn't found above setting, dont have time for this, but found another one (at database lying at com.android.provider.settings) - "dim_screen" which is set 1 by default. Maybe changing it to 0 with any SQL editor will force NOT to dim screen at all.
An for the begin, I have a solution that is very very very possible to work...
As for now, I have not tested it, especially if the critical battery level setting (default 5%) has direct relation to the battery level on which screen is dimmed, but I am ALMOST sure about it, as the crtitical level setting that I am talking about (no matter where it is stored...) is recognized system-wide.
Oh, almost forgot, the solution!!!
Install Xposed Framework (search for it on xda if u dunno what it is) + module XBatteryThemer - apart of other options, it has the option to lower critical battery level (as well as two other levels, which determine displaying the low battery alert popup) to as low as 1%. Your screen shall no longer dim at 5%.
*** actually, there is another one Xposed module (CriticalBatteryShutdown, or something...?) which can force the device not to turn off when battery reaches some level between 0 and 1%, which is arbitrary action by default. With this mod the device is working untile theres really no power left, which sometimes can give you additional 10 minutes. A
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Did I say that 5% is the minimum level? No, I didnt. All I said it is, it gives you more time and IF you drain your battery EMPTY, it may not charge. Of course there are self-protection manager already, but as you know, they dont always work as they should. There are several questions on net what to do when the phone doesnt start charging because they drained the battery to a state to auto-shut off. I dont understand why anyone would like to drain the battery almost empty and in a bad scenario you have a dead battery. Will it happen with your device? Maybe or maybe not. And it is not even healthy for a lithium battery to let it full disharged/cycled on everytime.
And yes I have read that there are apps that allows you to change this but only if your device is rooted. Never tried, mine is not rooted.
This will explain it very well: http://batteryuniversity.com/learn/article/charging_lithium_ion_batteries
Sent from my Galaxy Note 10.1 (N8000).
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Please correct me if I´m wrong, does that make sense to you if your battery is 5% and you thinking of raising the slider higher ? Maybe you should check your energy saving settings. My two cents.
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No, you cannot set the brightness by a slider when the battery level is 5%. It automatically goes to a state to save the battery. It is built in the system.
Sent from my Galaxy Note 10.1 (N8000).
I have noticed on my OPO that the application "Battery Monitor Widget" doesn't appear to have access to accurate battery information, including the size and the recharge/discharge rate. Instead you have to configure it manually for the size and tell it to estimate the discharge/recharge rate. From a bit of testing, it doesn't even appear that the OS itself has a good view of the battery, where if you have enough applications drawing enough power, and not enough power feeding the phone, it won't even show as being connected to USB power, and it will estimate if it is on AC or USB power apparently based on how much the recharge rate is.
My first question is if anybody knows if this is a software only issue, where additional hardware support needs to come in an update. Alternatively, are there any other tools that allow accurate monitoring of power state? Thanks!
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I have noticed on my OPO that the application "Battery Monitor Widget" doesn't appear to have access to accurate battery information, including the size and the recharge/discharge rate. Instead you have to configure it manually for the size and tell it to estimate the discharge/recharge rate. From a bit of testing, it doesn't even appear that the OS itself has a good view of the battery, where if you have enough applications drawing enough power, and not enough power feeding the phone, it won't even show as being connected to USB power, and it will estimate if it is on AC or USB power apparently based on how much the recharge rate is.
My first question is if anybody knows if this is a software only issue, where additional hardware support needs to come in an update. Alternatively, are there any other tools that allow accurate monitoring of power state? Thanks!
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I noticed the same thing. Mah shows 0 usually. I was also looking for an alternative, but i guess an update will fix it.
Change the battery monitoring setting to reverse mA. You can also manually input the capacity of the battery.
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randaddy said:
Change the battery monitoring setting to reverse mA. You can also manually input the capacity of the battery.
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It may just be at random, but when I set reverse mA, I found that the system wouldn't go into deep sleep while charging, which slowed down charging significantly. I'm also pondering what this actually means (the reverse mA) as this implies it has data that it is reversing in some way.
ebrandsberg said:
I have noticed on my OPO that the application "Battery Monitor Widget" doesn't appear to have access to accurate battery information, including the size and the recharge/discharge rate. Instead you have to configure it manually for the size and tell it to estimate the discharge/recharge rate. From a bit of testing, it doesn't even appear that the OS itself has a good view of the battery, where if you have enough applications drawing enough power, and not enough power feeding the phone, it won't even show as being connected to USB power, and it will estimate if it is on AC or USB power apparently based on how much the recharge rate is.
My first question is if anybody knows if this is a software only issue, where additional hardware support needs to come in an update. Alternatively, are there any other tools that allow accurate monitoring of power state? Thanks!
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I heard that "Kitkat" has changed their policy so that any battery monitor apps have no any more rights to read the figure of battery information.
But, the solution, as per what i experience, is to download Xposed Installer, and then there is a module named "Enable BATTERY_STATS for KitKat", download and activate it. After that, any apps with battery monitor function can be executed sucessfully.
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I heard that "Kitkat" has changed their policy so that any battery monitor apps have no any more rights to read the figure of battery information.
But, the solution, as per what i experience, is to download Xposed Installer, and then there is a module named "Enable BATTERY_STATS for KitKat", download and activate it. After that, any apps with battery monitor function can be executed sucessfully.
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As of the newest CM 11S build and battery monitor widget, it appears the issues have been resolved, and the battery data appears to be more accurate. This may require root however.
And there is a helper app which you need to install. As far as I recall
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Charge Monitor shows graphs of the charging current, battery temperature, capacity and voltage.
Gives you the possibility to compare the charging current of different chargers and cables.
A picture is worth a thousand words.
Change log
Version 1.6.3
- Bug RemoteServiceException
+ Tablet improvements
Version 1.6.2
- Bug
Version 1.6.0
+ Manual calibration
+ Change minimum battery alarm temperature to 35°C
+ Splash background
+ Adaptive launcher icon
+ Updated libraries
Version 1.5.2
- Bug fix
- ClassCastException HorizontalScrollView
- NameNotFoundException PackageManager
+ Fix Fahrenheit
Older changelog
Version 1.5.1
- bugs
- set alarm permission
Version 1.5.0
+ Tablet layout
Version 1.4.1
if you're updating from the previous version delete app data!!
Graphs
+ More precise temperature & voltage (mV) in graph
+ Battery current graph smoothing
+ Move graph settings to graph window(swipe up)
+ Calibrate so that current is positive while charging, negative while discharging
History
+ 'New' icon in history
+ Fast scroller in history
+ Compare 2 or more graphs (select graphs to compare them)
Other
+ Help dialogs
+ Improve logging for unsupported devices
+ Android O support
Version 1.2.2
+ Implement SQLite database
+ History sorting & cleaning
+ Send data as csv file
+ Option to delete notification after charging
+ Battery temperature alarm
+ Graph settings & improvements
+ ExceptionHandler if side loaded
+ Alternative current calibration (experimental)
Version 1.1.1 bugfix
Graph updates when it shouldn't
Graph not hiding navigation bar
Version 1.1.0
Fixed bugs
Add log, to make it easier to send feedback
Refresh graph while charging
Show time to full in graph
Power supply in alphabetical order
Hide Power supply from settings if it isn't readable (Before installing the new version, disable show power supply if it isn't readable because it won't be in the settings anymore!!)
For automatic updates:
Will test it today. Report tomorrow.
Works. No error. But quit useless, i don't know how i could use these data ^^ can i export them into xls file ? Can't remove notification.
Thanks for this. Any chance to measure battery cycles?
billubakra said:
Thanks for this. Any chance to measure battery cycles?
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Yes, enable Show sys/class/power_supply in the app settings.
And have a look at sys/class/power_supply/battery, there you'll see battery_cycle.
I don't know why but I can't seem to add a screenshot to this post, see the first post for the screenshots.
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Works. No error. But quit useless, i don't know how i could use these data ^^ can i export them into xls file ? Can't remove notification.
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Thanks for your response.
While the app is gathering data you'll see a notification so you know that it's working in the background and yes you can't dismiss that notification.
With the data you'll be able to keep track of your battery temperature, the lower, the better for the longevity of your battery. Or you could compare different ways of charging your device, fast/slow, plugged/wireless.
I'm putting exporting the data on my to-do list.
Could you tell me the model of your phone and post a screenshot of the graph?
Thanks again!
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Yes, enable Show sys/class/power_supply in the app settings.
And have a look at sys/class/power_supply/battery, there you'll see battery_cycle.
I don't know why but I can't seem to add a screenshot to this post, see the first post for the screenshots.
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Will do and will get back to you.
i just installed it, will test soon. but at first sight, i see a minor visual mistake in the settings, where the top bar is too tall when it doesn't include tabs, not according to material design guidelines
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Works. No error. But quit useless, i don't know how i could use these data ^^ can i export them into xls file ? Can't remove notification.
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lol...first of all this so rude to say something like this. And this app can be so useful to use while you are checking your chargers and charging cycles etc. If you can not contribute something then stop cluttering the app threads. Its like you can move on and please don't bother to reply
Gazatus said:
Works. No error. But quit useless, i don't know how i could use these data ^^ can i export them into xls file ? Can't remove notification.
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Hi, it wasn't an attack, i did a test and tell what i though. There no "tutorial" in the app so i was wondering what could i do. Don't judge too fast boy
PS: tested on Sony Z3 - marshmallow
Just installed on my Oneplus 2, running oxygenos 3.5.6
Everything seems to be ok, except that there are no units showing next to the numbers. Also, current shows too many numbers, seems to be showing μA instead of mA.
I can provide screenshots or anything else if needed for help
Thanks for the app of course!
Edit: Both aforementioned issues seem to be present on a friend's LG G2 as well.
Edit 2: After the 15% calibration passed and phone charged, everything is ok. Numbers are normal, units show up, so cheers again for the app!
Feedback!
Liked the interface! Lucid and simple to use. From the screenshot you can see battery charge cycle is something about 742. Can you tell me what can you determime from this?
Bdw tested on Samsung S6 Edge G925I having Alexis rom installed
Very good app, just what I was looking for long time ago. just one thing, if is possible to put an switch to invert the charging current, as some devices it appears an negative value when charging. My device is OnePlus 3
Working well
Hi I've just installed on my LG G4 with stock MM and everything seems ok but there's one bug, on history screen when I'll click on history of charging nothing happens, long press works as it should...
This looks like a really useful app, installed on all my devices that will report charging data, will offer feedback if/where I find it.
I know this is about charging, but in your to do list, is there discharging as well? I would love that so much, especially if you do build in export capability.
Excellent work, thank you for putting it out here.
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Hi, it wasn't an attack, i did a test and tell what i though. There no "tutorial" in the app so i was wondering what could i do. Don't judge too fast boy
PS: tested on Sony Z3 - marshmallow
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Don't worry, I didn't take it as an attack, but as a genuine question. Yeah I should improve the fist post a bit.....
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Just installed on my Oneplus 2, running oxygenos 3.5.6
Everything seems to be ok, except that there are no units showing next to the numbers. Also, current shows too many numbers, seems to be showing μA instead of mA.
Edit: Both aforementioned issues seem to be present on a friend's LG G2 as well.
Edit 2: After the 15% calibration passed and phone charged, everything is ok. Numbers are normal, units show up, so cheers again for the app!
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Thanks!! Yes different phones reporting the battery current in different units (μA or mA and hopefully no others) is one of the reasons why I'm asking for your help here.
oneplus 3 user here, running official resurrection remix, 7.1.1, stock kernel
so, i've been using it for a while now, and here's what i have to say:
good design, although the top bar in settings should be thinner, the black theme is awesome.
it does the job of monitoring the charging process very well, the data seems to be accurate and can surely be useful
the app is lightweight, drains no resources and has no noticeable impact on the phone's behavior or performance
here's what i suggest to make the app better:
when viewing the chart of the active charging cycle (opened from within the app, not from the notification), add autorefresh every few seconds so people don't have to exit and reopen it to refresh
make the line for charging current display the absolute value of the current and fix the 0-line on the bottom so it makes more sense
it would be awesome to display cpu load and cpu temperature as optional lines in the chart, so one can compare the impact of using the phone while charging
but i have to say, good job so far, if i were you, i'd do some polishing, slap a google ad to the bottom, add a donate option and post it to the play store .
I tried it. Asus ZenFone 2, running Android 5.0, stock and rooted.
I think it also showed some odd numbers when the app started, but I'll check again tomorrow to make sure.
P.S. Maybe you can add an option to cut the graph to show just the actual charging? I left my phone connected to the charger a while after it was fully charged, so the time is wrong, and I really want to know how long it takes my phone to be fully charged .
Oneplus 3 on Resurrection Remix 5.8.1 20170207
https://i.imgur.com/s89B8e3.jpg