Regardless of what fw I'm using (Currently a recent Gigglebread, problem exists with "standard" CM7 too) - the "Status Bar" (according to "Where's my droid power") is consistantly using around 5-6% of my battery. For something that's basically inert that seems to be quite high.
Any ideas what I might be doing that would effect this?
Did you enable battery percentage in the status bar?
maybe
yes, it could be related to enabled battery percentage in the status bar, check that out
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I use Ariel Battery 2 to show the battery level on left side of the screen and I also have the regular battery status on the upper right corner.
Is there a way to hide the original battery status? I think one is pretty enough for me. I think I've stumbled upon option where I can control it's visibility, but it also could just be my imagination..
Hey all, I was wondering about Spare Part's Battery percentage counter and its accuracy. I'm kind of OCD about the battery right now because I want to know exactly how long it will last on regular usage.
Anyway, I took it off the charger at about 6:30 AM this morning after an alarm, had another alarm and had about 4 calls. Messed with it a bit (Twitter and Gmail, etc) and went to work. It was at 100% until about 10:30/11 AM (quite a while) until I went installing Handcent SMS.
I tested it out and checked the battery. It was at 97%. Every 5 or so minutes, I checked the battery and it would go down a percent every time. Already uninstalled Handcent SMS as I thought it might be doing something.
It's 11:40 AM now and battery 88%.
I have Gmail to only sync my mail and it hasn't synced since 9 this morning, no calendar and contacts because contacts sync quite often and I didn't need it to. Twitter is set to sync every 2 hours. Those are the only things that have any syncing ability really.
Last night I had the phone in standby for about 3 hours and it was at 48% that whole time.
Mobile network is off since I'm on Wifi.
Is Spare Parts just catching up to the battery? Are there any apps to get the battery % in the status bar on top? Thanks guys!
soulonfirexx said:
Are there any apps to get the battery % in the status bar on top? Thanks guys!
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Are there any? I've tried Battery status and Battery status free - both shows battery icon in the status bar, but the don't show the %. Help!
Try "battery level"
soulonfirexx said:
Last night I had the phone in standby for about 3 hours and it was at 48% that whole time.
Mobile network is off since I'm on Wifi.
Is Spare Parts just catching up to the battery? Are there any apps to get the battery % in the status bar on top? Thanks guys!
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I don't know anything about spare parts, but I do know that wifi really drains the battery. You said last night I had the phone in standby, was the screen (thus the wifi) on during the whole day?
It's turned of when put in standby so it's logical it doesn't drain the battery then.
Ok, I have solution. I've found Battery Monitor v1.0.5 and finally it shows the percentage in the status bar
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Ok, I have solution. I've found Battery Monitor v1.0.5 and finally it shows the percentage in the status bar
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What if you have the status bar black...the text of the percentage is also black. Is there a way to change the text color?
EDIT: I found out that when you are in the status bar press the Monitor and once it gets to the blue screen where you have to enable it press menu and settings and the only option there is to change font color.
Hi there,
Do you know what app should be installed if i want to know battery indicator in task bar when i charge my bettery ? I am using spooncharge it shows the indicator but i have to run the app 1rst
i had tried ariel battery too, but it overlaped another icon..
thanks
What about the taskbar battery indicator. It should show the battery state....
Ever since I got the phone I noticed the battery meter was off. The way I see it the bar should represent nearly any % of the total capacity. Well, I don't know if this is the case and I was wondering if anyone else has input. I've been using the phone Status to find the actual % of the battery to actually judge how much juice is left. Often times I'll find the battery reading at 80% or maybe even less and the battery meter shows full. Anyone else having similar problems? Is there a fix or does the bar only show approximate values at certain increments (i.e. 25%, 50%, etc.)?
Same here, when the battery image is at 75% there's realy only 45% left. Kinda annoying but i got used to it
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anyone else have input or maybe a possible fix?
bloody awful isnt it lol
i use a widget from extended controls, or switch pro, they have a % and its bang on
else you can try this
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=765419
im not even going to bother changing the framework-aes.apk as my phone got stuck in a restart loop last time i modded something made by someone else
Deleting batterystats.bin from /data/system doesn't help
what else can I do?
sort of the same problem
even when the battery is down to like 20% it still shows 90% on status
i just ignore it completely and use a third party battery meter like Gauge Battery Widget
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=8124361&postcount=46
it's simply the best!
@op, do you mean the battery indicator in the notification bar always shows full or when you check the status screen? there were quite a few times when i would delete the battery stats on my nexus one and the battery status would show 100% for 5 hrs or so, but eventually it would start to drop. once i fully charged it again it would work normally. one of the few things i hate about the galaxy s is that the battery meter in the notification bar is so out of whack. i hate having to check the settings page all the time and i stopped using battery apps due to battery drain
use the widget/status bar icon i recommended above
Allgamer:
Thank you but my problem was battery showing 100% all the time, it doesn't metter if I use widget or other method.
hondaguy:
Thank you
evantually it started dropping (after few hours)
now it's o.k.
The Galaxy S will show in the notification bar as '100%' untill the 75% mark is reached.