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
Is there anyway to get rid of how the screen bounces from left to right? Its really annoying...Also when you slide down the notification bar is there anyway to have a on off switch there for 3g & all background data? Also, is there anyway to get the battery life of a CM7 mod to that of stock rom?
BTW is it just me or is the CM 7 mod (im using the destroyer v2 version of CM7) much faster than stock rom or in my case Im using the Spring Lovers rom? Does changing the profiles in the CPU settings change anything like going from ondemand which I am on now to performance? It seems that the sprint lovers battery lasts much longer that is currently my only downside for this mod...
You should have an app anim mod or something that will edit the screen transitions, but it can be tricky to use.
I think you can just open the spare parts app and change transition animations to off. That should do it.
For the 3g data toggle, go to menu>settings>CM Settings>Interface>Notification Widgets. From there you can put where ever toggles you want in there.
Most people feel like AOSP ROMs are a little faster just b/c they have less crap in them compared to Sense ROMs. That's why they're only 60-80mb instead of 150+.
You can play with the governors in CPU settings and see which one works for you. I think conservative or OnDemand are the way to go, depends on how they work for you.
When switching from Sense to AOSP, you need to wipe battery stats. Charge the phone until it's full, unplug it and turn it off. charge it while it's off until the green light comes back on and unplug it again. Do that 10 times. Then go into recovery and wipe battery stats. That should get you more battery life.
Here are some other tips:
http://greenfieldroid.wordpress.com/2010/12/27/battery-tips-for-longer-battery-life/
If those don't work, try the tiamat Kernel. Should be able to squeeze 20hrs out of the battery on light/moderate use.
If you're talking about the scrolling on the launcher, go into the launcher's settings and turn elastic scrolling off (or change it to 0 if elasticity is a numeric option).
Destroyer has bounce transitions. I think that's what he's talking about.
i turned mine off by using menu>setting>display>animation then selected "some animations" hat turned the annoying screen flip off.
Yes the bounce transitions! They hurt my head!
Hey guys,
After hanging around DFP 74, DFP 188, DFP 231, DHT 22, and DHT 25-based roms, I've
gotten to the point where I love Gingerblur, but downright hate the stock BlurHome.apk.
After doing some thinking, I have come to the conclusion that the lag when scrolling in Stock Blurhome
is the result of two things:
1: either Motorola is not incorporating ANY scrolling cache; or
2: High-quality drawing is enabled by default.
Anyone who ever has used LauncherPro or Go Launcher probably knows what these two points refer to.
In launcherpro, Go to Preferences > Advanced >Memory Usage Settings > and turn Scrolling Cache on High.
That will improve scrolling between screens.
In both LauncherPro and Go launcher there are options to enable / disable high quality drawing. If it is enabled,
it may cause significant lag, but the upside is that the widgets won't be messed up visually. However, it is best
disabled on GB because GB motorola widgets are much more subtle that Froyo.
So my question is, is it possible to edit BlurHome.apk and fix the lag?
Maybe...
droid_<3er said:
Hey guys,
After hanging around DFP 74, DFP 188, DFP 231, DHT 22, and DHT 25-based roms, I've
gotten to the point where I love Gingerblur, but downright hate the stock BlurHome.apk.
After doing some thinking, I have come to the conclusion that the lag when scrolling in Stock Blurhome
is the result of two things:
1: either Motorola is not incorporating ANY scrolling cache; or
2: High-quality drawing is enabled by default.
Anyone who ever has used LauncherPro or Go Launcher probably knows what these two points refer to.
In launcherpro, Go to Preferences > Advanced >Memory Usage Settings > and turn Scrolling Cache on High.
That will improve scrolling between screens.
In both LauncherPro and Go launcher there are options to enable / disable high quality drawing. If it is enabled,
it may cause significant lag, but the upside is that the widgets won't be messed up visually. However, it is best
disabled on GB because GB motorola widgets are much more subtle that Froyo.
So my question is, is it possible to edit BlurHome.apk and fix the lag?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Its possible all we have to do is de-compile the apk and edit the xml to what we want and recompile.
I think its because the cpu is locked at a lower frequency when you are at the homescreen. In setvsel there is an option to show cpu frequency in notifications. When I enabled it and scrolled through the homescreens, the cpu was locked at a lower frequency (maybe 300MHz). Dont remember much correctly because it was a long time ago.
I used to have my NST rooted with 1.1.2 FW and I managed to change the battery stock images with Rom Toolbox Pro.
Now, I'm on 1.2.1 (also rooted) but if I try to do the same my NST ends up messed up and I'm forced to do a restore.
So how can I put the battery percentage on a 1.2.1 rooted NST?
Thanks.
There are quite a number of changes between 1.1 and 1.2
The problem with using an Insta-Wonder-Auto-Tool is that you don't know what it's doing.
When it doesn't work, you are a few steps behind than if you were doing something manually
Sorry, I haven't looked into changing the battery status drawables.
My laundry list of things to do on the Nook doesn't go that far.
I know ReLaunch will display exact percentages while on that screen. If you don't need exact percentages but would like a more accurate estimate than the limited number of states the icon in the status bar shows T.E.A.M Battery Bar (at least. there are likely others that do a similar thing) will put a persistent 1 px tall bar across the top or bottom of the screen, that's what I use and it's been good enough for my needs at least. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.pvy.batterybar&hl=en
I guess it's something...
1. How much has inverted apps given as far as battery life and economy. Is there a study that verifies it advantages in terms of battery percent? For an app like Gmail (low processing power) or Youtube (high processing power), both with high frequency useage how long is the wait for a typical blackout app, is it worth it? What's the easiest way to automate its flashing other thna going into recovery for each version and manually flashing, then deleting the files?
2. Am I crazy or do the gapps and blacked out apps come with extra features. Some of the menus have gotten harder to navigate and I cannot find a swipe to delete option or selective label display in GMAIL. I also liked the persistant side menu on my pervious gmail, not the tab in and out. The message headers look too wide. I also can't find an LED notifier for GMAIL
3. Is there a way to swipe the brightness on the top keeping it persistantly in the navigation bar (instead of having to press it or slide it as the notification menu drops awkwardly down)?
4. In Task650's rom, are these features easily available (control animation at bootup, control led color, led blink on bootup, the ability to dim lower than the default aokp low seting)? I can't seem to find them easily?