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
Good morning folks,
Can anyone think of a way to always be able to see CPU usage on the Rhodium?
The only way I can see CPU usage now is to use a program called Virtual Explorer which provides a percentage view of CPU usage (along with a graph).
Does anyone know a program which would bring CPU usage information to Windows Mobile (perhaps on the top by the clock)?
I am on the stock Tmobile WInMo 6.1 ROM.
Thank you!
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Anyone had any luck with this?
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Anyone had any luck with this?
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Try BattClock.
Here's a program I use a lot, Task ManagerEX. When running, tap the Menu and install the CPU Monitor. it will put a small box in the taskbar that shows you CPU use. Blank, no use, more bars, more use. It runs all the time even if you don't have Task ManagerEX running. It's great for seeing that the CPU is doing something during those long pauses instead of wondering if your command has been recognized. You can adjust where it shows up in the Taskbar so it doesn't cover any of the other icons.
batclock is what I use also. I have it set so CPU is a stripe below the start icon and text, with a black collor for low usage, dark grey for moderate, and bright white for heavy usage... that way I don't really notice it on my black taskbar unless I have heavy usage slowing down the device...
Miami_Son said:
Here's a program I use a lot, Task ManagerEX. When running, tap the Menu and install the CPU Monitor. it will put a small box in the taskbar that shows you CPU use. Blank, no use, more bars, more use. It runs all the time even if you don't have Task ManagerEX running. It's great for seeing that the CPU is doing something during those long pauses instead of wondering if your command has been recognized. You can adjust where it shows up in the Taskbar so it doesn't cover any of the other icons.
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Thanks for your help. That program is pretty much what i'm looking for. However, it appears you can't set the position for both the portrait and landscape at the same time, which causes it to go out of position when switching and covering other things. Which is a shame.
Will give battclock a go too
I have tried a few and they all seem to suck battery more than the opperating system if you want them to run in the background and record and type of advanced statistics. I would like to get every day Joe's opinions and recomendations on battery apps that work well and record good statistics like
* % a hour of drain
* good battery graph
* apps and processes and there ram and usage % of cpu they consume including the app its self!
Lets get this one figured out together for the best apps that really work! Thanks guys!
The app I found best for general use is SYSTEM PANEL
This is a direct recreation of an experiment performed by gogol on April of 2010. Although it is well known that a black background uses less power on AMOLED screens, I wanted to establish actual figures for the Galaxy Nexus.
Testing Condition:
- Fresh boot on 4.0.2 yakju Galaxy Nexus
- Wifi OFF
- Mobile network OFF
- GPS OFF
- Bluetooth OFF
- Screen at home screen with default icon placement(no clock widget)
(1) At maximum brightness, screen on for 15 minutes
- Pure black wallpaper will consume about 2% (from 80% down to 78%)
- Galaxy Nexus wavy blue wallpaper will consume about 4% (from 77% down to 73%)
(2) At brightness = 20+%, screen on for 15 minutes
- Pure black wallpaper will consume about 1% (from 72% down to 71%)
- Galaxy Nexus wavy blue wallpaper will consume about 2% (from 69% down to 67%)
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Although no one is going to stare at a wallpaper for 15 minutes straight, over time, it should add up to fairly decent savings with normal use. I really was surprised by the power usage. Despite its size, the screen is pretty energy efficient.
those arent really reliable numbers given the error margins of the experiment (battery reading, ambient temp, etc)
have the screen on for 4 straight hours, and maybe we'll be talking
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those arent really reliable numbers given the error margins of the experiment (battery reading, ambient temp, etc)
have the screen on for 4 straight hours, and maybe we'll be talking
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I was originally going to make it an hour long but the maximum sleep timer on stock ICS is 10 minutes and I didn't want to sit around tapping on the screen every 8 minutes I'll probably find an app or something and try it again overnight. Although not 100% accurate, it directly reflects previous experiments.
screebl should do the trick...
market.android.com/details?id=com.keyes.screebl.lite
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screebl should do the trick...
market.android.com/details?id=com.keyes.screebl.lite
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Thanks for the info. I'll check it out.
There was already someone else who tested black vs white in this forum. The results are bit surprising.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1366878
Black vs white screens at different levels of brightness.
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There was already someone else who tested black vs white in this forum. The results are bit surprising.
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Not surprising at all.
1280x720 tiny little LEDs all want their own few ยต-amps. Those that are switched on, that is. ^_^
I will try a pure black wallpaper and report back.
EDIT: Made a pure black 1280x720 wallpaper. Save anywhere on your device and "install" by viewing with the gallery app > select options.
I am currently running a custom ROM instead of TW on my S3. I have noticed that my battery use just takes a dive off a cliff when the screen is in use. I thought AMOLED was a bit more efficient. I try to run with just a black wallpaper and usually enable dark themes on my ROM but the very little screen on time still just kills my battery. I can leave the phone on with wifi running for hours and it will go for a while but the screen just kills the battery. Does the screen color temp help? I tried warm and cool settings and such. Is it this way with Touchwiz also? Overall, the battery lasts me over a day because I am not on my phone 24/7 but the rapid depletion with little bits of screen on time is weird. Is this a kernel issue? BTW I run brightness widget and leave it on 0%. I also use LCD screen filter although that doesn't actually make the backscreen light dimmer as it just places an overlay to make the screen appear dimmer.
Thanks for any recommendations ya'll can make.
Update: Lux allows me to drop the brightness down below Brightness widgets' 0%. This should help out.
2 things.
1 is your device overclocked?
2 and the fact that you are on a custom ROM causes battery issues due to some improper optimizations.
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1. Not overclocked
2. I can see where that could be.
Thanks.
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