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Easiest way to add battery percentage?

I have googled the heck out of google, and searched a few forums and my head just spins. I see that there are many custom roms that offer the change, but Im not interested in customs roms at the moment. Is there a zip file that I could add?
If i missed something, sorry for adding another thread on the matter...
My Evo is rooted, and Im using Launcher Pro.

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I am running Cyanogen MOD, which has that as an option, but I also use a widget you can download for free in the market called BATTSTATT. You can have it display the battery percentage written out or numerically. It is really nice looking, granted it is a widget and perhaps not quite what you are looking for.

For the stock rom I use Battery Indicator, it adds a percentage to the upper left in your notification bar.

[Q]Dexter's Froyo-How to change Battery Status or sth like this...

My XT720 is using Rom Dexter's Froyo and when i want to know how much the battery left it has, i must use some widget suchas Battery Life, and it take some Ram Memory, about 3-5MB Ram.
So.. i wonder if it could use another battery status by changing it. at sample, the HD2 or Moto Cliq can use update.zip to change their status bar and it's icon.

you could have change the theme as you favorite....another apps to try Battery Calibration

I have a similar question In a thread regarding the LG evolution they managed to do a battery mod.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1156721
I tried several times and almost bricked my microsd only to find out later that clockwork isn't compatible with xt720 in addition to being ever so finnicky.
If the above instruction do not work then would it be possible to run this through Metamorph quite like how someone did the Gingerbread theme-ing.
I applied that one with relative ease
Thanks to any and all who come up with something or contribute some relevant knowledge im missing

You can use metamorph to change one icon or zipthemer to change a group of them all at once. Zipthemer also creates an undo.zip in case you want to go back to previous.

lucas_max said:
My XT720 is using Rom Dexter's Froyo and when i want to know how much the battery left it has, i must use some widget suchas Battery Life, and it take some Ram Memory, about 3-5MB Ram.
So.. i wonder if it could use another battery status by changing it. at sample, the HD2 or Moto Cliq can use update.zip to change their status bar and it's icon.
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I just saw that in the windows phone 7 launcher (available free in android market), there is an option in the launcher settings (under status bar options) which whch says: Display current battery percentage. After ticking that option, the battery percentage appears in the status bar! As far as i know, this is the only launcher which this feature. Hope that helps!

I don't know but I do know the new XDA special beta2 is a nearly perfect ROM with battery accurate at 10% increments. Thats the best I've seen. Also Widgetsoid is pretty cool.

Woodrube said:
You can use metamorph to change one icon or zipthemer to change a group of them all at once. Zipthemer also creates an undo.zip in case you want to go back to previous.
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I tried metamorph and Zipthemer but the best way i can put it is;
Its missing the Theme Control File
So i threw one in and even then, no dice
I guess clockwork doesn't need a Theme control file??
And i guess this framework is limited to that phone model

sky ice cream sandwhich and rom toolbox?

would you recommend any of the tweaks on rom toolbox, the kernel tweaks supposedly help with battery life? i have no knowledge about any of that ha i have sky icecream sandwhich on my att skyrocket, and what about changing the battery icon or the other ones? will this mess with anything too bad? thank you!

Don't do anything with kernel if you are new because the rom comes with stock tweaked kernel and battery life is awesome. He has couple of battery mods that you can flash through cwm or rom manager.
oikhlail11 said:
would you recommend any of the tweaks on rom toolbox, the kernel tweaks supposedly help with battery life? i have no knowledge about any of that ha i have sky icecream sandwhich on my att skyrocket, and what about changing the battery icon or the other ones? will this mess with anything too bad? thank you!
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Toolbox mods
Too add to appdroid's response...Some of the mods will work; example changed download arrow icon/color, but some of the mods will bork your framework (killed my status bar completely attempting to change cell signal indicator after declining option from toolbox to back-up aforementioned framework). I would have to agree with above response, especialy if you consider yourself a 'noob'.

oikhlail11 said:
would you recommend any of the tweaks on rom toolbox, the kernel tweaks supposedly help with battery life? i have no knowledge about any of that ha i have sky icecream sandwhich on my att skyrocket, and what about changing the battery icon or the other ones? will this mess with anything too bad? thank you!
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I suggest making a backup of your rom before you start messing with it. I think it's the only way to find out how things work. I change davlik.heap settings, and a bunch of stuff. If I don't like it or I mess something up...restore backup and try again.

I am also running sky ics and have tweeked some icons using Rom Toolbox Pro. I have changed the battery icon to the 1% honeycomb style one. You should only use a battery icon with 1% increments, these are the increments used in the rom itself, not sure if 10 or 20% increment battery icons will work. I've also changed the vibrate icon, signal strength icon, usb icon and download icon. None of these changes have harmed my phone in any way. But before you go changing things, make sure you back up your rom like the other members have suggested.

Battery widgets/monitoring not correct

So I've been a huge supporter of Circle Battery Widget since its inception...I think it's an easy-to-use widget that is customizable and looks great. That being said, 4.2.2 seems to have broken it.
Not only that, it seems to have broken every battery monitoring widget I have found on the Play Store. They can load the battery %, but it doesn't refresh. It's as if whatever protocol they all use has stopped working in 4.2.2.
Does anyone else use battery percentage widgets and having this same issue after updating to 4.2.2? It's super obnoxious because I've had a widget on my main screen since I got my first Android phone and this is the first time it's broken.

You'll probably need to install Xposed framework and the Enable Battery Stats module for battery apps to work correctly. Google changed the coding on apps ability to retrieve battery info. For example GSam wrote their own root tool to make their apps work on KitKat.

AndrasLOHF said:
You'll probably need to install Xposed framework and the Enable Battery Stats module for battery apps to work correctly. Google changed the coding on apps ability to retrieve battery info. For example GSam wrote their own root tool to make their apps work on KitKat.
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Well...they worked perfectly until the update to 4.2.2.

hotleadsingerguy said:
Well...they worked perfectly until the update to 4.2.2.
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Ya that is bcoz after 4.4.2 update google has changed some code that makes impossible for a 3rd party app to read ur battery stats in deep!! U hav to root ur device inorder to gain access to the battery stats!!
Dont frget to press the THANK button!!!

[Q] Lock Screen batter indicator [Lollipop]

Hi there can anyone help, I noticed Google has added an official battery percentage indicator into Lollipop. However it only shows up active when the phone is plugged into power charging and also only shows up on the lock screen (see screenshot from N5).
Is there a way to enable this permanently as none of the apps out there really cut it for this feature, is there a thread on this topic as I cannot seem to find one??

I guess on stock ROM you have to live with what you've got. There are a few apps out there which can show a notification on the left side of the statusbar. But that's not a good solution.
Nearly every custom ROM supports changing the battery symbol though (with percentage / without ...)

experience7 said:
I guess on stock ROM you have to live with what you've got. There are a few apps out there which can show a notification on the left side of the statusbar. But that's not a good solution.
Nearly every custom ROM supports changing the battery symbol though (with percentage / without ...)
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Much appreciated for the response experience7! sorry my bad, my poor explanation I'm happy to run a different ROM etc but was wondering if this modification can be done with say an adb cmd under root if it's just a flag within lollipop or is the only way with a ROM?? if so can you recommend one that's as close to stock as possible for Nexus 5 that allows this as there is so many?

You could try stock ROM with Xposed Framework.. I'm pretty sure there's some kind of customization module which lets you handle how battery icon / percentage should look like and when they should be visible. Not sure if GravityBox is compatible with Lollipop yet.
I read somewhere that Cataclysm ROM should be stock-based with lots of features! There's a thread here on xda-developers Maybe read OP / search / ask there if it has the option

experience7 said:
You could try stock ROM with Xposed Framework.. I'm pretty sure there's some kind of customization module which lets you handle how battery icon / percentage should look like and when they should be visible. Not sure if GravityBox is compatible with Lollipop yet.
I read somewhere that Cataclysm ROM should be stock-based with lots of features! There's a thread here on xda-developers Maybe read OP / search / ask there if it has the option
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Awesome thank you, much appreciated....