If I had the skillset, or the time to learn it, I'd happily build this myself. I'm not looking for anything complicated... or at least, I don't think.
I want a simple battery meter on my today screen that takes up less space than any other I've seen, yet has far more information.
I swiped a picture of someones today screen and mocked up what it is that I'm looking for. (attached) The particular kaiser in picture has a black and white theme, so my meter shows up well. The only option I would want would be to be able to select the two colors. Red/Green work fine for me, but some people may want to make it match their personal color scheme...
I'm only looking for a today plugin... not necessarily something that stays in the task bar when in other apps. I'm also not looking for any other tools or utilities packaged all together. I just want the battery meter.
Is there anything like this out there already?
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If I had the skillset, or the time to learn it, I'd happily build this myself. I'm not looking for anything complicated... or at least, I don't think.
I want a simple battery meter on my today screen that takes up less space than any other I've seen, yet has far more information.
I swiped a picture of someones today screen and mocked up what it is that I'm looking for. (attached) The particular kaiser in picture has a black and white theme, so my meter shows up well. The only option I would want would be to be able to select the two colors. Red/Green work fine for me, but some people may want to make it match their personal color scheme...
I'm only looking for a today plugin... not necessarily something that stays in the task bar when in other apps. I'm also not looking for any other tools or utilities packaged all together. I just want the battery meter.
Is there anything like this out there already?
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SBSH Launcher does a similar battery meter, the only difference is that it is aligned at the top of the start/status bar, and not on the bottom as you described.
Pocket Plus (I think from SPB) also does the battery meter on the top.
Good luck!
EDIT: Both apps I mentioned come with various other features, but they can be turned off, and just keep the Today Plug in for the Battery Meter.
Not only was that quick.. it was EXACTLY the kind of thing I wanted. In fact, it was even better because I was willing to accept a today screen only solution.
THX
mitchelwb said:
If I had the skillset, or the time to learn it, I'd happily build this myself. I'm not looking for anything complicated... or at least, I don't think.
I want a simple battery meter on my today screen that takes up less space than any other I've seen, yet has far more information.
I swiped a picture of someones today screen and mocked up what it is that I'm looking for. (attached) The particular kaiser in picture has a black and white theme, so my meter shows up well. The only option I would want would be to be able to select the two colors. Red/Green work fine for me, but some people may want to make it match their personal color scheme...
I'm only looking for a today plugin... not necessarily something that stays in the task bar when in other apps. I'm also not looking for any other tools or utilities packaged all together. I just want the battery meter.
Is there anything like this out there already?
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I have one exactally like that. Only difference is that the thin battery bar is on the top of the screen. the proggy is called wisbar-lite. In the photo attached, it shows battery at 100% (green bar).
can't believe no-one mentioned Batti yet... That's what I have been using after having been through SPB's Pocket PC Plus, Wisbar, pBar, and a few others I forgot just now.
It's VERY lightweight, and for the most part, just shows the indicator. You can tap it for more info if you feel the need, though. And it's easily customizable (well, colours are... there's really not much more to customize )
Give this one a shot.
Link to Batti:
http://pda.jasnapaka.com/batti/
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can't believe no-one mentioned Batti yet... That's what I have been using after having been through SPB's Pocket PC Plus, Wisbar, pBar, and a few others I forgot just now.
It's VERY lightweight, and for the most part, just shows the indicator. You can tap it for more info if you feel the need, though. And it's easily customizable (well, colours are... there's really not much more to customize )
Give this one a shot.
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Probably because Batti doesn't match the description of what I was looking for.
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Probably because Batti doesn't match the description of what I was looking for.
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Nah.
Look at this like that:
you can mod the colours to your heart's content (so it will fit any theme), it's only a 3-pixel bar (or so) at top of the screen, can be made visible only on Today screen (and not within apps), and has options for different colours at different charge levels (normal/low/critical). How is it NOT what you were looking for?
Well I'll be a wooly bugger.
My apologies. I was under the impression that batti did something different. Don't know how many times I saw batti listed in different places and skipped over it because I thought it did something different from what I was looking for.
Already installed Vistahide battery gauge though and it's everything i had hoped for..
I think it would be pretty sweet to have to phone go off like the robot from lost in space.
WARNING WARNING!!! THE BATTERY IS CRITICALLY LOW
wyrm said:
can't believe no-one mentioned Batti yet... That's what I have been using after having been through SPB's Pocket PC Plus, Wisbar, pBar, and a few others I forgot just now.
It's VERY lightweight, and for the most part, just shows the indicator. You can tap it for more info if you feel the need, though. And it's easily customizable (well, colours are... there's really not much more to customize )
Give this one a shot.
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Wow, this is exactly what I was looking for as well. I installed it this morning and I'm very happy with it. And for me, it's free!
Apology accepted
Every man to his own trade, I guess; I prefer my indicator to be solid colour, others swear by gradients. The bottom line is that both these apps do what's asked of them, and at a very moderate cost (Batti allegedly takes 30 kB).
Have fun with Vistahide!
Siochan,
ChumleyEX said:
I think it would be pretty sweet to have to phone go off like the robot from lost in space.
WARNING WARNING!!! THE BATTERY IS CRITICALLY LOW
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Oh but you can do that with Batti. Tap the indicator, open notification, go to Settings -> Advanced, check "Play sound" for a given event, and select a .wav from the drop-down list. [This assumes you have the .wav ready and waiting in \Windows, though]
I used to use Batti but when I figured out that WisBar had a similar (if not nearly as feature-laden) battery meter I deinstalled it. I figured I'd try the WisBar meter for a while since I was already running WisBar anyway. Since then I feel like I am getting more battery life. No quantitative analysis to back that up though.
mitchelwb said:
If I had the skillset, or the time to learn it, I'd happily build this myself. I'm not looking for anything complicated... or at least, I don't think.
I want a simple battery meter on my today screen that takes up less space than any other I've seen, yet has far more information.
I swiped a picture of someones today screen and mocked up what it is that I'm looking for. (attached) The particular kaiser in picture has a black and white theme, so my meter shows up well. The only option I would want would be to be able to select the two colors. Red/Green work fine for me, but some people may want to make it match their personal color scheme...
I'm only looking for a today plugin... not necessarily something that stays in the task bar when in other apps. I'm also not looking for any other tools or utilities packaged all together. I just want the battery meter.
Is there anything like this out there already?
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Did you find what you needed if not I have the cab for the exact battery line you are looking for?
-McMex
can you post it for the rest of us
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I have had lots of problems with the Vista Hide battery gauge.. My Tilt would run really slow sometimes, sometimes wouldn't finish booting unless I did a cold boot (took out the battery for a bit), etc..
I had just installed it when I noticed this behavior, so I removed it and after getting rid of the new battery gauge all went back to normal.
ChumleyEX said:
I think it would be pretty sweet to have to phone go off like the robot from lost in space.
WARNING WARNING!!! THE BATTERY IS CRITICALLY LOW
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I looked and looked...the best i could find was the "Warning! Warning! Warning! "
Uploading it just in case you wanted to use it hehe
Just rename the .zip to .wav
wyrm said:
can't believe no-one mentioned Batti yet... That's what I have been using after having been through SPB's Pocket PC Plus, Wisbar, pBar, and a few others I forgot just now.
It's VERY lightweight, and for the most part, just shows the indicator. You can tap it for more info if you feel the need, though. And it's easily customizable (well, colours are... there's really not much more to customize )
Give this one a shot.
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I just installed "Batti" on my new AT&T Tilt, and it works like a charm. I need to look at the screen while on a call to know what time it is. So clock shows on my START title bar, taking away the battery indicator. Now Batti does exactly what's needed!
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Alright it is getting on my nerves... I would much rather have a clock there than a battery meter.
Does anyone know how to change the battery meter back to a clock while on the today screen? This is the first time I am seeing this, on the new QTEK ROM that is, before I had a stock 8125, and I like this ROM but I don't like that one little thing. So if anyone knows how to fix it I would really appreciate it
Later; Lew
In future put question marks at the end of thread titles unless you actually do have the answer.
that's part of the AKU2 rom. i truly don't understand what the deal is, the clocks is RIGHT there below it. i like the new icon just the way it is.
the deal is that the clock, for many, is actually not visible - last time I checked some screenshots of it
And yes, they added the clock to the Date item for the Today Screen - but then that now takes up 2 lines, etc. etc. no point in re-hashing it
Thing is - some people like it, some people don't. The latter group is looking for a solution
I must say this ROM is worth dealing with it, but the reason I dont liek it is because my today screen image sometimes makes it hard to see the white clock, where as in the taskbar its on a solid background.
I will make note of the question mark statment, sorry for getting hopes up
LAter; Lew
You can atleast set the clock to show up in the battery meter's place while in other programs than the today screen.
Settings - System - Clock and Alarms - More then Check the box.
yeah, had to check that option in the past anyway (at least on my stock Qtek 9100) to get the clock to show up in all apps. But it's still annoying that it effectively disappears once you're on the Today screen. What if you don't use the new date/time plugin (for whatever reason) or any other time indicator? Now you have nowhere to look on your PPC for the time when it's on the Today Screen. Remember the little registry edit to put the date in the taskbar clock, with the byline "so you can get rid of the date item on your Today screen and free up space" ? Well, not anymore.
If nothing else, they should have made it an option somewhere.. possibly they did and we're just yet to find the registry setting that does it, but who knows :|
Is here way to display battery drain in mA or mw within TF3D? On the home tab would be good or in the status bar. I can get BatteryStatus by ChiTai to display this info but only after disabling TF3D. On my kaiser I used to find the mA an excellent way to keep an eye on what was going on in the background with radios and data etc.
Because TF3D disables all other Today Plugins I don't tink it's possible at the moment.
Maybe it's a solution to install SecondToday from ChiTai too. You can use TF3D und Today Plugins like BatteryStatus side by side, easy to switch (TF3D <-> Today) and with Diamond like style.
Regards,
Purzel
Thanks Purzel I will give it a try. Shame they did not leave a spot within TF3D for plugins such as this to display.
I gave it a try as you suggested Purzel and the SecondToday and Battery Status combo worked. But really not ideal for me. I know there is already an application that shows % remaining overlaid on the status bar battery icon. What I have in mind is different.
Alternative status bar Battery Icon
Essentially the same Battery Icon that is there now with bars showing charge but with added feature of numerals showing mA drain. These numeral could either be overlayed on the icon or squeezed beneath it in tiny font.
The advantage of this arrangement is:
1) it would work with TF3D. This is because it would not be a today plugin. Simpy an alternative to the current battery icon on the Status bar.
2) Would enable user to always see charge remaining and current load.
I like the idea of always being able to see the load on my battery as often I have apps running in the background which are chewing through the battery. Conversely if the mA drain is low I know these apps cannot be running and all is good. Makes for an easy way to increase battery life.
I sent a message to ChiTai suggesting this as an idea for utility. However never heard anything back.
Essentially all the app would have to do is somehow ascertain current drain in mA and display it over the reaming battery bars on the icon. Nothing more. Be great if one of you clever programs could put this together. I reckon it would be popular.
Would any one else be interested in a replacement for the default status bar battery icon that worked like this?
For those of you that don't know Bedside,
It is a night clock that turns off all notifications while it's opened. However, if somebody calls you, it will ring/vibrate, or whatever ring mode you had before you opened it. For example:
- You set the phone to vibrate
- Open Bedside
- You get any notification, sms, email, other app, etc.. it wont vibrate or sound, nothing.
- You get a call, it will vibrate.
It has features like:
- TTS (Text-to-Speech), long press anywhere on the screen, and Bedside will say the time. You can enable/disable this on the preferences.
- Swipe Up/Down for Brightness Control.
- Battery Status
- Option not to turn off sounds (Clock Only).
- Ability to Keep Screen On, or just let it off along with your Display Timeout setting (Bedside will keep running).
- 24 Hours Format (TTS will say time in 24 hours as well)
- Text Colors
- Text Fonts (only for the time)
- Subtle Background (optional since it doesn't help with Brightness)
- Flashlight (on the menu, or also you can enable the Show Lightbulb option on preferences and a small lightbulb will show up on the top left corner for easy flashlight access)
As you can see, this app is very customizable and useful. It's $1.49 and available in the market right now.
There's a "Lite" version as well but it's missing many features that the regular version has.
Who wants SMS whitelist support????
crackertc said:
Who wants SMS whitelist support????
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I'd like that. Also (not my idea, saw it elsewhere on the forums), notification icons would be nice. Just little discrete email & SMS icons in the corner, so you can see if something's come in.
Saiboogu said:
I'd like that. Also (not my idea, saw it elsewhere on the forums), notification icons would be nice. Just little discrete email & SMS icons in the corner, so you can see if something's come in.
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that was exactly my idea, i've been implementing sms support in order for me to do whitelists, since i have that I could also put ex "2 unread SMS", however I don't think I can access the gmail unread messages and such programatically, I'll look into that.
Are you the developer? Anyway, be nice to see those features.
I tried all the 'bedside' style clocks awhile back, including paid.. this ones the best.
Yes, I'm the developer
Thanks, I've got some of those features almost done, I'm doing some fine tuning and internal testing before releasing, I don't want any issues like I've had before when releasing "untested" versions....
BTW, this features (and any other new feature) are going to be release only for the paid version... sorry for those that have the lite version, and thank you for those that have the paid one
Need a beta tester, I'm in.
Paid, BTW. I used to really hunt around for the free apps, but seriously.. Few bucks are easily worth a good app.
Saiboogu said:
Need a beta tester, I'm in.
Paid, BTW. I used to really hunt around for the free apps, but seriously.. Few bucks are easily worth a good app.
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Thank you for supporting, i know people complain "why a dollar? why not free?", cheap.. lol they spend more buying a coke...
anyways, i've got enough beta tester, like my whole family owns a g1, even my mother, she's become so techy lately its funny. Thank you for the offer though, I'll keep you in mind if i need something.
Status: I did have some problems with the whitelist, I'm showing sms counts and such but when receiving sms's it wasn't very consistent. Still fixing. Will keep you posted
Thanks
Hi,
I've just installed PAC-MAN's 4.2.2. Really good ROM and I spotted a little third icon in the notification center.
Then I tapped on that, suddenly a little circle popped up on my screen and just sticked to the left. Then things becomes really annoying, because this little thing just does not go away. I went into the settings - ROM Control - Ribbons, and tried menu - reset ribbons again and again. Still can't get rid of this. Can somebody please tell me how to make this little circle thing disappear?
This little circle thing is really annoying. I'm not sure if this is the official feature of Android, or is it just the dev team's work? It takes the job of Notification center and pops out every single time I get new push notifications. I already see what the notification is from the status bar, and can easily deal with it in the dropdown notification center, so I do not need this thing to tell me again! What's worse, this thing takes up screen space, considering Galaxy Exhibit's screen is already a tiny one. And now I just don't know how to deal with it, letting it sitting there popping up randomly and I just can't turn the thing off.
Then I see that maybe the dev team has brought the idea of Ubuntu's idea. The point is, Ubuntu's idea is just a vertical dock, and the dock idea is not only Mac OS X's, but also Android's - look at the "phone" "contact" and "app drawer" icons at the bottom of the screen! I can't say this is a bad idea, but, please, give me the option to disable it.
Double tap and drag to the x. I think.
OMG it magically worked...
Thanks a lot!!!
gr. street said:
Hi,
I've just installed PAC-MAN's 4.2.2. Really good ROM and I spotted a little third icon in the notification center.
Then I tapped on that, suddenly a little circle popped up on my screen and just sticked to the left. Then things becomes really annoying, because this little thing just does not go away. I went into the settings - ROM Control - Ribbons, and tried menu - reset ribbons again and again. Still can't get rid of this. Can somebody please tell me how to make this little circle thing disappear?
This little circle thing is really annoying. I'm not sure if this is the official feature of Android, or is it just the dev team's work? It takes the job of Notification center and pops out every single time I get new push notifications. I already see what the notification is from the status bar, and can easily deal with it in the dropdown notification center, so I do not need this thing to tell me again! What's worse, this thing takes up screen space, considering Galaxy Exhibit's screen is already a tiny one. And now I just don't know how to deal with it, letting it sitting there popping up randomly and I just can't turn the thing off.
Then I see that maybe the dev team has brought the idea of Ubuntu's idea. The point is, Ubuntu's idea is just a vertical dock, and the dock idea is not only Mac OS X's, but also Android's - look at the "phone" "contact" and "app drawer" icons at the bottom of the screen! I can't say this is a bad idea, but, please, give me the option to disable it.
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Its a new app called halo me and jaws talked about it in the PAC thread.
I've been out of the loop for a while, and don't know all the ins and outs of Pie, but I was excited to see it was coming out and couldn't wait for it...until i woke up yesterday morning and found out that my Tmo Note 9 had installed something called a One UI Update and there was a notification in the upper-left corner that wouldn't go away. I realized it was the clock position, no moved away from the right corner.
Is there any way to move the clock back to the right side so it doesn't look like a perma-notification? Something that doesn't require root?
I've done some quick searches and some results are for the pixel or require root. Another possible solution was to use something called substratum(?) but that still might require root? Other places just said to file a bug report with google, but I doubt that would do anything.
Anyway, if anyone knows how to move the clock, back to where it's been for as long as I can remember, I'd appreciate it.
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I've been out of the loop for a while, and don't know all the ins and outs of Pie, but I was excited to see it was coming out and couldn't wait for it...until i woke up yesterday morning and found out that my Tmo Note 9 had installed something called a One UI Update and there was a notification in the upper-left corner that wouldn't go away. I realized it was the clock position, no moved away from the right corner.
Is there any way to move the clock back to the right side so it doesn't look like a perma-notification? Something that doesn't require root?
I've done some quick searches and some results are for the pixel or require root. Another possible solution was to use something called substratum(?) but that still might require root? Other places just said to file a bug report with google, but I doubt that would do anything.
Anyway, if anyone knows how to move the clock, back to where it's been for as long as I can remember, I'd appreciate it.
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Use System UI tuner .
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It shouldn't show just a notification...it shows the actual clock in the status bar.
Also possible with (Samsung) Good Lock and Quick Panel star app
Mr. Orange 645 said:
It shouldn't show just a notification...it shows the actual clock in the status bar.
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What I mean is that for years, notifications have always been in upper left by default (at least to my knowledge). So when I first looked at my screen, granted I had just woke up and my eyes were still a little fuzzy, it looked like a notification. Then I realized it was the clock.
sindawe said:
What I mean is that for years, notifications have always been in upper left by default (at least to my knowledge). So when I first looked at my screen, granted I had just woke up and my eyes were still a little fuzzy, it looked like a notification. Then I realized it was the clock.
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Ok, now I understand. I thought you meant it was just showing a notification, no clock.
Yeah, this has been discussed many times here in several Pie threads. This isn't a Samsung or One UI thing. It's a change Google implemented in Pie. Theory is, it is to account for notches, an for hole punch displays...like the S10/+ which has the hole on the right.
I never thought it would be this controversial of a change, and I imagine Google didn't either. I've been truly surprised at how many people hate it, LOL. Took me about 30 seconds to adjust to it, and I havent thought about it since. I guess to me it made sense, because in prior versions of Android, when you pulled the notification shade down, the clock moved over to the left anyway. Now it doesn't move.
Thanks for the suggestions for UI Tuner and and Sammy Good Lock; I'll give those a try.
Vote for good lock.
Wanted to report back that over the weekend I installed Good Lock.
Also, as a side note, I live really close to the manager of one of the Tmo stores in town and we chat in passing while walking our dogs every so often. Over the weekend we met each other on one such doggy walk and he had the exact same question for me that I asked here. Apparently he had quite a few people call or come in asking him the same thing too! I pointed him to the Good Lock app and showed him what it did for me. We're all happy campers now!
Appreciate the help, thanks!
Can I use SystemUI Tuner to add seconds to the stock clock?
I tried via the System UI Demo shortcut method and that didn't work. It's not a big deal I just like having the seconds up there as well. Also, will using SystemUI Tuner interfere with Good Lock in anyway?