Hi all,
With all the items on my today screen, a scroll bar has introduced itself...
Anyone know of a tweak/hack to reduced/shorten the height of the scroll bar? I.e. for it not to display the full length of the usable screen area. Or another option to make the main 'bar' transparent with just the 'arrows' present (much like the ones used in some HTML web pages)?
P.S. There's only so far you can go with narrowing it before it becomes non-usable!
Many thanks in advanced.
I previously sorted out the locking up problems with help from you guys on here, and I'm sure that I have seen something about a battery indicator on screen when not using O2active but can't find it. Can someone post a link to the thread if it actually does exist or does the function not exist out of O2active?It's quite possible that I had a "moment" and imagined that I saw this of course - it's an age thing, hopefully!
Cheers. Alan
Why not load up the GPRS monitor program that the device come with and configure that to display Battery status on the screen - after its free, and a damn good utility if you use GPRS to track the cost - Mike
Or download Batti (just search for it - it's free)... I use it, and love it, for various reasons I won't bother to detail here
Thanks for that, I'll do a bit more digging. I don't use GPRS for monitoring (as far as I know) so I'll have a look at batti.
In. Done. What a handy little thing! Thanks again.
There's several, really... I like to classify them graphically as...
A. Applications
B. Today screen/Tray
C. Task bar
D. Top/Bottom overlay
The first group, Applications, I wouldn't even bother with. They tell you what the battery level is, and sometimes more information, but you do need to actually run the application. So there's no quick view of what the battery level is at any time.
The second group is nice if you're on the Today Screen a lot. They typically have nice graphics. However, they'll only be on your Today Screen, and take up space there. Very often the larger "Does everything!" applications that use the Today Screen will have one of these, typically along with indicators for memory and storage space.
The third is a bit nicer already. You can see it on any screen, as long as the task bar is in view. There's just one problem - they take up space on the precious task bar - and there's not a whole lot of space there on a QVGA device when in portrait mode. Some solve this by putting a tiny little bar underneath the clock - so much for getting a readout 'at a glance', though. In addition, any application that hides the task bar, will hide that indicator as well.
The last category, at least for me, is ideal - and Batti belongs in that category. Thes are the battery indicators that are usually just a line of a few pixels (or even 1 pixel, like Batti) high, going across the top/bottom of the screen. They're always visible, and you can easily tell how full your battery is even if it's just a white solid bar (such as what's in MagicButton).
They usually come in two flavors.. a solid bar going from left to right, or individual little bars, so that you can easily count in percentages. One of SPB's products comes with one of these, for example. Which style you prefer is really a matter of personal likings.
What's extra nice about Batti is that you can set it up to change the color of the bar at two percentages (e.g. 33% for 'low' with an orange color and 10% for 'critical with a red color), all user-definable. It can also indicate charging, and has a nice textual read-out of charge, voltage, temperature, etc. if you click on it (optional). The frequency with which it updates can also be setup. Some of the battery indicators poll every second, for example, thereby actually draining the battery a good bit itself more than it needs to. I have mine set up to update every minute, which is more than enough.
The *only* thing I would love to see added to it is alarms for the two percentages - which I've requested from the author, but haven't heard back from him as of yet Some of the other battery indicators may have alarms, so that might be something to keep in mind.
Batti
Where can I download Batti from ?????
http://www.google.com/search?q=pocketpc+batti
Battery meter.
I downloaded Batti and I dont think its very good at all !!!. The battery level indicator that comes with Pocket Hack Master is way better. However what I realy Real Real need is the OLD battery level software from WM2003. You know the one with red and green in the settings folder. Unfortunately I deleated it when I hard reset my phone.
Please anyone out there who has the old WM2002/3 still on file. Can you send me a copy of the file I need to make that work again.
Thankyou
Rob
I guess you'd have to state your reasons for liking the one that comes with Pocket Hack Master better
There's three things that are at play, to begin with...
1. Pocket Hack Master isn't free. Of course, if you are looking into the functionality it offers (CPU clock speed tweaking, etc.), then its built-in battery meter is a nice bonus when you do buy it anyway.
2. Pocket Hack Master doesn't run on all devices. Due to the fact that it is an application mostly geared towards CPU clock speed tweaking, it will refuse to run on unsupported processors such as the TI OMAP processor. I believe this doesn't apply to the Blue Angel, but does to e.g. the Wizard.
I have an HTC Wizard.
3. Personal preferences. Everybody will prefer their own style of battery meter, etc. You didn't fully explain why you like Pocket Hack Master's better, and unfortunately I can't fully review it as Pocket Hack Master refuses to work on my device. However, from some screenshots it appears that you can only set colors for battery or A/C (i.e. no change of color based on the charge level), the size appears limited (though you can make it a small 2px bar or a series of 4px blocks), and you can't set the refresh rate. On the other hand, you can fully control its positioning and hide the border. All in all - though again.. I'd have to actually be able to run it to make sure.. I haven't seen an screenshot of the 'gradient' method for example - I'd still have to stick with Batti on features alone.
Hopefully they'll add TI OMAP support soon, as it would be worth getting for that, for sure
For the curious, Batti was updated to version 1.4.
Added: Sound Events
Added: Option for turning off the frame around Batti
Added: Option for blinking on critical level
Added: Battery status on Info page (Charging, On AC, On Battery)
Added: Custom color for charging*
Some bugfixes
* charging is different from being fully charged. Sound events can be defined for charge start and charge end as well.
And I forgot to mention in my main rant that you can change the strings for localization easily - most of the main languages are already available for download
My question about this utilities, is which takes least memory space and battery life?
I hate to install something very usefu which on the downside slows down the device and makes me go crazy with the battery.
Of course anything that continuously monitors the battery performance will take up extra battery life itself, though it's typically negligable. Batti itself can be configured to poll only every N seconds - I have mine set to 60 seconds, but obviously there's no real reason to even set it to this frequency - the battery won't drop that much in a minute
As for memory use, I can't really report on others, and you have to keep in mind that several of the battery monitors are part of a larger whole; and if you want the larger whole anyway, then you typically won't lose any additional memory from enabling the battery monitor functionality. For example, MagicButton has a battery indicator line as well.
Batti takes up roughly 40KB
If you want a pure battery monitor proggie:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=364278
One of the best
I am using the HTC Home plug in on the Today screen and I love the weather portion of it, but that's all I use. As such I've disabled all of the tabs except Weather. The only problem is this leaves about a 20 pixel high tab that takes up the whole width of the screen with the weather icon on it causing me to lose valuable screen real estate.
Does anyone know how I can remove the tabs, either by changing the vertical size of the whole plugin or just flat out removing the tab?
You can do that with "Schaps Advanced Config" tool. There are cabs all over if u don't have it installed.
Almost
Thank you for a link to this cool program, but sadly it doesn't let me do what I'm looking for. It does let me undock the Homeplug from the top of the screen and move it to the bottom, but it becomes dynamic and then the scroll bar covers part of it up.
registry.
HKLM\software\microsoft\today\items\htchomeplug
Selectability=2
Type=4
because the X1 default just display either time state or battery state...
Not sure how to do it specifically, but some ROMs, with newer menus at the bottom of the screen, will have both battery and time in the status bar.
Displaying clock and batrey bar
just hide the clock option so the batrey bar will be displayed, and in today screen seting you have to put the date so the clock will be displayed also on your screen good luck
you can install SPB pocket plus, go to settings, enable the Battery indicator as an icon, then go to time and select to always display clock on top.
that will give you both batt and time display on top row.
Search for ArielBattery. Found it yesterday and does the job perfect! Sry for my English
I know that xposed in combination with some modules should allow you to change some of the statusbar icon colours.....
What I'd ideally like.....
Battery Colour to change from Green to Yellow to Red at determined charge points.
Bluetooth Icon to be Blue
Wifi Network to be one set of colours
3G/4G Network to be a different set of colours
Probably a couple of others I can't immediately think of.
I've google and read over the last few days and while there are some modules that allow some features from the list above there seems little granularity (i.e. I can change ALL the statusbar colours in one module, but not selectively some...) or some don't allow the changes I want at all.
I realise after reading that some of the icons are app installed pics, rather then text graphics and you'd need to change the underlying pic to change the colour.....
But is there a way to do ALL that I want above?
If you're asking why it's simple.....when you're busy and in a hurry the human brain recognises cues from colours far easier and faster then from graphics...we've been wired that way for generations.
HELP!!!