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I used to use the HTC Corporation Battery widget that works with the 1.5, but it wont work with the 2.1's. What is a good battery widget, that shows the %, but does not actually drain the battery or is a memory hog. I've been searching, but in almost all the comments in various battery apps, people complain what resource hogs/battery drainers they are.
danman132x said:
I used to use the HTC Corporation Battery widget that works with the 1.5, but it wont work with the 2.1's. What is a good battery widget, that shows the %, but does not actually drain the battery or is a memory hog. I've been searching, but in almost all the comments in various battery apps, people complain what resource hogs/battery drainers they are.
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Here you go!
http://www.market4android.com/battery-time-lite-from-motalen.php
I use it and it is an excellent app, and doesnt drain my battery at all like 99% of the others I've tried!
Systray Monitor
Testing it out. Thanks for the link, looks promising
I like Battery indicator (I use pro for the red/green indicator) because it puts the percentage remaining in the status bar and I have not noticed any drain from the app.
I really like batterlife by curvefish
FoxRacR17 said:
I really like batterlife by curvefish
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+1 on that.
My icon in the notif bar looks like 80% and it is 40% lol. I don't get it.
hah2110 said:
My icon in the notif bar looks like 80% and it is 40% lol. I don't get it.
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Strange, I haven't noticed this.
1) What phone are you using
2) What ROM are you running
3) Have you wiped your phone along with the cache?
akapoor said:
Strange, I haven't noticed this.
1) What phone are you using
2) What ROM are you running
3) Have you wiped your phone along with the cache?
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Almost every Android phone. It is a known problem.
I don't seem to have an issue with it.
When it reaches 75%, my bar is 3/4s. When it's 50, its half-way...etc...etc...
hah2110 said:
Almost every Android phone. It is a known problem.
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Awsome job answering 3 questions with a random statement.
I know the phone stores the info about the battery in a file. This file includes the max charge the battery can charge too. There is a method somewhere on these forums that show how to drain your battery, wipe the file, then do a full charge so the phone can relearn the battery and the correct settings get saved.
I believe flashing new roms and doing storage wipes can cause this file to be removed and created with false info.
WoZeR said:
Awsome job answering 3 questions with a random statement.
I know the phone stores the info about the battery in a file. This file includes the max charge the battery can charge too. There is a method somewhere on these forums that show how to drain your battery, wipe the file, then do a full charge so the phone can relearn the battery and the correct settings get saved.
I believe flashing new roms and doing storage wipes can cause this file to be removed and created with false info.
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No... It has nothing to do with this. Every Android phone I've had... Regardless of whether it is brand new, stock, rooted, flashed, new kernel, anything... Doesn't matter.
May I know how many android phones you previously had?
not trying to flame btw.. but i dont have that case with my phone.. and this is my first phone
You have tokinda program the Lion Batt internal charger first, you charge them full->run till dead--> repeat process 2 times and then the system will be way more accurate. Try this and reply in about 3 days the results.
lagu805 said:
May I know how many android phones you previously had?
not trying to flame btw.. but i dont have that case with my phone.. and this is my first phone
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John512 said:
You have tokinda program the Lion Batt internal charger first, you charge them full->run till dead--> repeat process 2 times and then the system will be way more accurate. Try this and reply in about 3 days the results.
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You guys are still missing it. The ICON is not accurate but the internal sensor is. Jeebus. Look at these links... and it seems as my answer is in the first two sentences:
http://senk9.wordpress.com/2010/06/07/android-app-of-the-day-battery-left-widget/
http://www.androidjunkies.com/index...ets-you-keep-watch-of-your-power-app-reviews/
Honestly, if "it" truly bothers you, why not just put the overlay ontop so you get the "real" percentage.
It's work just fine for me, usually +/- 3% at most, works great on froyo.
Calibrate if it is way off
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I'm trying to understand how android calculates battery percentage, and from my testing it seems that the battery meter is hard coded into each particular phone model. This link seems to kinda verify this.
http://www.android-x86.org/documents/howtoconfigurebatteryservice
Does anyone know where in the system the battery file is located? Either the battery driver, or the algorithm it uses, or even a stats file. Anyone able to point me in the right direction? Thanks.
Daveenna said:
It's work just fine for me, usually +/- 3% at most, works great on froyo.
Calibrate if it is way off
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How abouts do you calibrate the visual battery indicator at the top of the notification bar to be within 3%??
Are you talking about something else like the battery charge status reading?
I've experienced the same problem as the OP on all my Android phones as well. It is a problem when you think you have 75% charge and all the sudden you are getting low battery warnings.
same here. Notification Bar battery is hilariously off.
akapoor said:
I don't seem to have an issue with it.
When it reaches 75%, my bar is 3/4s. When it's 50, its half-way...etc...etc...
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oh yea? mine goes to nine percent...and takes forever for it to shut down. only when i shut down the phone or reboot it, does it not come back on. lol
Is everyone else's Stock Battery Indicator ridiculous inaccurate? I'm at 42% battery life currently (widget/spare parts) and the stock indicator shows a level around 65-75%.
phishie said:
Is everyone else's Stock Battery Indicator ridiculous inaccurate? I'm at 42% battery life currently (widget/spare parts) and the stock indicator shows a level around 65-75%.
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it's not 'inaccurate' samsung has set it like that. but if you want to tweak it, try search around.
accinfo said:
it's not 'inaccurate' samsung has set it like that. but if you want to tweak it, try search around.
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Ah, correction, rather than inaccurate it just rounds up generously.
phishie said:
Is everyone else's Stock Battery Indicator ridiculous inaccurate? I'm at 42% battery life currently (widget/spare parts) and the stock indicator shows a level around 65-75%.
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Yea, that's common. They don't have very many level drops.
If anyone finds an app that can overlay a % (or replace it with a %) on top of the STOCK ICON, that'd be awesome. There's some that add an additional icon but I don't want that, that's just stupid to have two battery icons...
Also if anyone finds an app that can overlay a dBm signal in place of the signal strength meters that'd be awesome, too.
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Yea, that's common. They don't have very many level drops.
If anyone finds an app that can overlay a % (or replace it with a %) on top of the STOCK ICON, that'd be awesome. There's some that add an additional icon but I don't want that, that's just stupid to have two battery icons...
Also if anyone finds an app that can overlay a dBm signal in place of the signal strength meters that'd be awesome, too.
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Yes, I was wanting a NEW battery gauge, one that shows the percentage, not the ridiculous stock icon thats off by a mile. Also, I'm with you I dont want two battery icons up there. I guess its harder than I think it should be to create an app that does that.
I'd assume since it's the TouchWiz UI that something specific to the Captivate would have to change the icon... That's my assumption anyway, I'm not a developer.
derek4484 said:
Yes, I was wanting a NEW battery gauge, one that shows the percentage, not the ridiculous stock icon thats off by a mile. Also, I'm with you I dont want two battery icons up there. I guess its harder than I think it should be to create an app that does that.
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You guys might want to try System Info Widget in the Market. Pretty good and definitely accurate.
What annoys me is that Samsung has the numerical info in the about screen, so why not just create a toggle so we can go from bar to numeric....
I think they pulled an Apple and wanted the bars to always look bigger.
I installed Battery Widget (the one with over 250K downloads)... Best thing for now...
I noticed the same thing right away... Not sure if they thought users would miss this but its a little misleading..
Battery status widget works for me.
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Battery indicator pro......
You there! Android hacker! Stop screwing around with your battery stats!
OK, if you're not part of the small subset of rooted users who likes to mess around with things they shouldn't, you can probably skip the rest of this story and read something more interesting below. But if you have fiddled with battery stats on your phone, or used any of the rooted "battery calibration" apps in the Android Market, which do the same thing, it's time to stop. Google engineer Diane Hackborn has taken to Google+ to dispel the myth that wiping battery stats can improve your battery life, or the efficiency with which your phone charges.
This file [batterystats.bin] is used to maintain, across reboots, low-level data about the kinds of operations the device and your apps are doing between battery changes. That is, it is solely used to compute the blame for battery usage shown in the "Battery Use" UI in settings. That is, it has deeply significant things like "app X held a wake lock for 2 minutes" and "the screen was on at 60% brightness for 10 minutes."
It has no impact on the current battery level shown to you. It has no impact on your battery life.
So there you have it. If you want better battery life, you're better off trying more basic techniques like keeping tabs on screen brightness or anything that might be running in the background. Or, y'know, buy a bigger battery...
More: +Diane Hackborn
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http://m.androidcentral.com/wiping-battery-stats-doesnt-improve-battery-life-says-google-engineer
draztikrhymez said:
You there! Android hacker! Stop screwing around with your battery stats!
OK, if you're not part of the small subset of rooted users who likes to mess around with things they shouldn't, you can probably skip the rest of this story and read something more interesting below. But if you have fiddled with battery stats on your phone, or used any of the rooted "battery calibration" apps in the Android Market, which do the same thing, it's time to stop. Google engineer Diane Hackborn has taken to Google+ to dispel the myth that wiping battery stats can improve your battery life, or the efficiency with which your phone charges.
This file [batterystats.bin] is used to maintain, across reboots, low-level data about the kinds of operations the device and your apps are doing between battery changes. That is, it is solely used to compute the blame for battery usage shown in the "Battery Use" UI in settings. That is, it has deeply significant things like "app X held a wake lock for 2 minutes" and "the screen was on at 60% brightness for 10 minutes."
It has no impact on the current battery level shown to you. It has no impact on your battery life.
So there you have it. If you want better battery life, you're better off trying more basic techniques like keeping tabs on screen brightness or anything that might be running in the background. Or, y'know, buy a bigger battery...
More: +Diane Hackborn
http://m.androidcentral.com/wiping-battery-stats-doesnt-improve-battery-life-says-google-engineer
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Um.... what?
No one has ever (or ever should) claimed that resetting battery stats actually improves battery life. It only improves the accuracy of the battery readings.
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seh6183 said:
Um.... what?
No one has ever (or ever should) claimed that resetting battery stats actually improves battery life. It only improves the accuracy of the battery readings.
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This engineer is not saying improves life, says it does not give a more accurate reading
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This engineer is not saying improves life, says it does not give a more accurate reading
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Ok but you specifically mention in your first post "improves battery life".
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Battery life or battery useage efficiency?
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Ok but you specifically mention in your first post "improves battery life".
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That whole post is a quote from the article not me
Entropy has had some really good posts on this
There are a few HTC phones that have some specific battery guage software/hardware that it is beneficial to...other than that the claim is that it does absolutely nothing
I don't have the tech skills to prove/disprove any of it haha
After alot of way to clear battery stats with nothing good now i have best way to clear it and i do it everytime i flash new rom:
you turn off your phone and charge it to 100%. After that you take the battery out and wait 5minute and put it back. Don't turn on your phone, keep it off and charge, you will see that the phone now not 100%. Wait to it charge to 100% and now your batter good to go!
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I use Battery Calibrator from the App Market... What I do is I let completely the battery die and then full charge, then I use battery calibrator to calibrate and reboot and done!
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http://m.androidcentral.com/wiping-battery-stats-doesnt-improve-battery-life-says-google-engineer
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The OP is correct.
Wiping battery stats has got NOTHING to do with battery life, battery charging or anything of that kind.
Here is another good explanation. Wiping battery stats is a total MYTH !!!
https://plus.google.com/u/0/105051985738280261832/posts/FV3LVtdVxPT
chappatti said:
The OP is correct.
Wiping battery stats has got NOTHING to do with battery life, battery charging or anything of that kind.
Here is another good explanation. Wiping battery stats is a total MYTH !!!
https://plus.google.com/u/0/105051985738280261832/posts/FV3LVtdVxPT
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Chappatti I'm very disappointed in you, resurrecting a 4 month old thread, tsk tsk
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Chappatti I'm very disappointed in you, resurrecting a 4 month old thread, tsk tsk
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Do you realise what a shock this is to me? And other folk who have happily been dreaming of great battery effects with battery stats?
EVEN IN THIS POST HERE, there is no critcal discussion, no devs have chimed in and this myth has remained for all to belieive. There is almost NOTHING a hacked ROM can do to improve battery life BY ACTUALLY AFFECTING HOW THE BATTERY CHARGES. This is a big statement. It is really a kernel thing, and all the claims that this or that ROM has great battery life is just a fluke.
I mean, if your battery is acting flaky, then there is a deep kernel issue, or even a hard battery problem?
I mean c'mon, how come this is not common knowledge? Or am I the only gut in the dark.....
Hey, If I had not found this post, I was going to start my own post, and SHOVE this down people's throats !!!!!!
Just because i feel like a fool !!!!!!
EDIT: OKay, so then, keeping a stock kernel in the ROM will makes MORE sense ASSUMING it has the best optimization of the wakelocks. So a custom kernel is only good for battery life if the dev has dajusted the wakelocks properly.....now I see the light !!
Well, since it was I who helped you see the light, I'll explain my friend.
Different roms MAY have different battery life depending on build.prop tweaks (control CPU scaling and power bias) as well as framework changes that may or may not cause wake locks.
Wake locks can also be present in a rom but never manifest themselves for cetain users, because of the apps they install. Often times they are extremely config specific.
Custom kernels on the other hand can help battery life significantly. They may eliminate certain wake locks, add different cpu governors that have better scaling, and of course the ability to under volt.
Battery status - it is only "battery status" in status bar. You need clear it if you changed battery on new or bigger. This is need for correct % information in status bar. That all.
Hello everyone, it's days that I try, in vain, to activate battery percentage display. In menù settings and in particular in the "status bar" section, I can not find any option to do this.
Any suggestions?
Many thanks in advance.
I read that is coming in the next update most likely. How true? no idea but I'm sure it's coming soon.
Eric214 said:
I read that is coming in the next update most likely. How true? no idea but I'm sure it's coming soon.
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Thank you.
So we just have to wait, I hope not too much.
Eric214 said:
I read that is coming in the next update most likely. How true? no idea but I'm sure it's coming soon.
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I think this is officially confirmed now
Zedrox said:
I think this is officially confirmed now
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Well that's even better. Awesome!
Hopefully this will be like the OnePlus 5 after launch. There was like 2 or 3 updates in the first 10 days or something. Bug fixes and feature add-ins
I'm using the Xposed module GravityBox to get the percentage.
Use accubattery and you will get battery percentage on left side
OP should switch to circle battery icon. Best of both worlds not much space taken up while still actually being useful by showing the percentage in the center of the circle. Probably will never happen.
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I'm using three Xposed module GravityBox to get the percentage.
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This works very well! Thanks
You can install this app
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bhanu.powerbar
It can add batter percentage and also adds a a bar you can then in the phone setting hide the battery icon if you just want the percentage.
vekenti said:
OP should switch to circle battery icon. Best of both worlds not much space taken up while still actually being useful by showing the percentage in the center of the circle. Probably will never happen.
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Hopefully someone from OnePlus reads this and thinks it's a good idea )
vekenti said:
OP should switch to circle battery icon. Best of both worlds not much space taken up while still actually being useful by showing the percentage in the center of the circle. Probably will never happen.
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No it doesn't, wtf are you talking about?
vekenti said:
OP should switch to circle battery icon. Best of both worlds not much space taken up while still actually being useful by showing the percentage in the center of the circle. Probably will never happen.
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Yeah, I'm not a fan of this as it makes the damn number so small you can't read if it's a 6 or an 8 or even a 9 sometimes. The standard 100% with the symbol is needed for certain. They can still add in the percentage in the whatever icon for the ones that like it but the standard number with the % is a must I feel.
I usually have the percentagem with no icon, that's perfect for me. It doesn't had any more space and it was already in Oxygen OS, not sure why they removed it.
Lets see what they do on the next update.
battery percentage is way more important that icon,
also they can easily can add slim icon to save some space.
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OP should switch to circle battery icon. Best of both worlds not much space taken up while still actually being useful by showing the percentage in the center of the circle. Probably will never happen.
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No, it's horrible.
I hope they will set option circle battery icon with procentage inside circle. Would not take more space and % would be there...
Heh...I didn't even know that you could have the percentage WITHOUT the icon....
Good stuff.
Do you know how to set this double sim status icon?
https://i.imgur.com/uU3gP0s.png
Any news from OP Staff for the battery % coming soon in an update?