Does having different themes and customized taskbar icons and such affect the battery usage ? I had some really nice themes installed along with few other tweaks and stuff and my phone wouldnt make it thru the day with minimum usage. I hard reset the phone and left the stock theme and seems a little better but i might be wrong. Any opinions or experiences ?
if you have apps running in the background, then the processor will be running more than it needs to, and hence drain the battery more.
changing the wall paper shouldnt affect it tho
I always close my applications but i was wondering about TF3D themes and some registry tweaks to increase TF performance and stuff. Do those cause more battery usage. I doubt registry tweaks put more stress on the processor.
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Just switching over from the Hermes world.
One recent addition to Hermes ROMs was the battery icon the top bar with granularity to 1%.
ie. take a look at the 1st pic in http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=2522625&postcount=1
some chefs made theirs with different colors, others were 100% white.
I know the Kaiser does 1% in the battery settings page, just wondering why I didn't see this top bar change getting cooked in to any Kaiser ROMs? Did it come and go already, or just not appeal to Kaiser folks?
Yes, I am well aware of other battery meters... like I said just curious about the cooked in battery icon.. small little perk that I miss from Hermes.
The 1 percent incraments is standard in the Kaiser (meaning nobody had to make an dlls to help make it). There are ways of showing the percent on the right, just have to find the right battery program to do it
zim2dive said:
Just switching over from the Hermes world.
One recent addition to Hermes ROMs was the battery icon the top bar with granularity to 1%.
ie. take a look at the 1st pic in http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=2522625&postcount=1
some chefs made theirs with different colors, others were 100% white.
I know the Kaiser does 1% in the battery settings page, just wondering why I didn't see this top bar change getting cooked in to any Kaiser ROMs? Did it come and go already, or just not appeal to Kaiser folks?
Yes, I am well aware of other battery meters... like I said just curious about the cooked in battery icon.. small little perk that I miss from Hermes.
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If you're handy with reshacker, you can look here for a start.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=321733
I created a new battery meter for my Kaiser. It's not too hard. I would post it, but it's uses borrowed images and since I don't use phcanOverbmp, it may not be too helpful for many people.
Is there anyway to just change that without having to install a whole different rom? Thanks!
What do you mean?
I was wondering something similar (i think), that would put a percentage on the already existing battery meter. Much like the battery status app that you can download off the market.
Is that what you mean?
The battery would always be there. If you want something like a percentage then you would have to download an app from the market but the original battery will always be there.
He wants there to be a different battery color or design or something, am I correct? To find the answer to the question I would ask one of the many theme devs, they're the one's that would most likely know something about this.
You can change the battery icon in the status bar by editting the framework\res\drawable battery icons. There are only 7 of them tho, so putting in a percentage wouldn't really be feasible. You can do it, but the icons are set by the system to change only at certain intervals. They are:
100%
80%
60%
40%
20%
10%
0%
You can change the icons for each of the listed percentages. Or you could make it a written percentage in 20% increments.
the rom/theme I am using has the regular horizontal battery meter, but I like the round one and was wondering if there was any easy way of just changing that
Change the images in the framework\res\drawables.
I just recently installed a new theme with the battery meter showing percentages in the notification bar (rooted Captivate running stock 2.1). To learn more about themes, I was poking around at the framework-res.apk files - comparing the original backed-up file with the one that was in the new notification bar package.
It seems the stock battery icons were in 20% increments, so there were files like stat_sys_battery_20.png, stat_sys_battery_40.png, etc.
On the percentage battery framework, there were a lot more files with names like stat_sys_battery_20.png, stat_sys_battery_21.png, etc.
Obviously one file for each meter increment you want. My question is: Is that all it takes to set up a battery meter? i.e., if I want to create a battery meter in, say, 10% increments - all I have to do is create one for each increment and save it in there? Is there no place else that I have to define whether there will be 5 battery icons, 10 battery icons, and which file corresponds to which battery level read by the system? Or is just the filename enough for it to figure out which battery icon goes with which battery level?
So does no one know or did I do a really crappy job of asking my question?
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So does no one know or did I do a really crappy job of asking my question?
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Yes.
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LOL ... no... no such thing as a stupid question - only stupid posts like I BRICKED MY PHONE (because... they didn't read the Q&A sticky)
But I don't know if I can answer your question with 100% accuracy.
It is true that you need 100 images to indicate the % increment vs. the 5 used for the 20% increment (if my math is off... IDK I fail at basic math )
... The part I'm not sure if it is needed is if the framework-res.apk has *.xml edits so that it recognizes the use of those images.
Best thing to do is test (which I can see you have it installed) and find out if it works without doing the *.xml edits.
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... The part I'm not sure if it is needed is if the framework-res.apk has *.xml edits so that it recognizes the use of those images.
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Thanks for the info! This point what I was thinking about. i.e., is it enough to just stick the appropriate images in there or does there have to be some kind of reference that says for example 83% battery corresponds to the file labeled stat_sys_battery_83.png
Yes, I did install the % meter. However, I installed it as an update.zip, so I'm not sure all the little changes - such as the .xml edits - that may have happened in the background. I can try to compare the other files with the stock framework.
I've spent much free times of testing all free available versions of Android and have found out best performance, batery life and response have "old" Kitkat. Besides that I can run older games which aren't compatible with LP or MM (however I can't play Titan Quest...I can live with that). But the only thing I realy don't like is notification area, quick toggles and system of notification generaly. Gravitybox can add heads up notifications (it isn't the same as on LP or newer, but at least something like that). I've installed MonsterUI which makes some thing to look like LP, but not SystemUI (even it says it mods this). I've found some instructions here on xda how to mod systemui.apk to achieve this, but it's really long and time consuming process. Tried this someone already? Or is there some Xposed module to make that? Or another way? Thank you.
no need to bother yourself with skins etc. Lollipop is close enough (in battery performance).
Please post how many hours are you able to achieve between full charges with app usage screenshots.
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