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Root Battery Percentage!

GoBruins said:
Would this be more accurate than battery widgets that take their % from the system? For example, my battery tends to charge full, and then when I pull out the cord, the widget reads 98%. Gyea?
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Jedii hit the nail on the head but just to expand. This icon will give you the exact same reading as all battery apps and widgets since they all read/display the same info.
Regarding charging: the SF will stop charging once it hit 100% if still plugged in it will not re-charge until it drops to 95% and that mini-cycle will repeat. So yeah finding you battery at 96-99 is quite common. Admittedly, it takes less than 10 minutes to take the battery from 95 to 100 and in theory if your battery is just idling to go from 100 to 95 should take a couple hours, unless you are passively receiving a bunch of email and/or text for instance.
 
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Figure I'd show it off on my own SF. On a different note please note that 74% remaining at 5pm and they baby was pulled off the charger at 730am. Use has been mild-moderate, not ultra heavy but still yet love this battery life. I finally disabled the vibrate when I get a text feature too and that makes a tad of difference
 
GoBruins said:
^^ Nice post with the photos, I just installed it and I think it looks cool.
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I agree I like it, simple yet classy...just like San Diego
Plus it gives me a chance to use ShootMe, Im like a addict with that app
 
Installed yesterday, works and looks awesome! Enabled me to uninstall an app I was using to view batt percentage.

Only mod I would possibly make/like to see would be maybe making the ring segmented. Might make this my first themeing project on an android phone after doing many for my Blackberry Bold 9650.
 
Nice!

Thanks for this. I also was able to finally rid myself of a dedicated battery widget.

I was wondering if it was possible to keep the bar showing the amount of charge left while having the charging symbol as opposed to animating. It would be easier to tell how far along charging is.
 
activesack said:
Nice!

Thanks for this. I also was able to finally rid myself of a dedicated battery widget.

I was wondering if it was possible to keep the bar showing the amount of charge left while having the charging symbol as opposed to animating. It would be easier to tell how far along charging is.
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Hmm. I'd have to reach out to the developer. But, i wouldn't count on it. Might wait for some ROM's to appear, and perhaps mention/suggest it to a ROM developer.
 
Jedii said:
Just follow the step by step instructions I provided in the OP :)

Its very simple.
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Yep, that was a lot easier than I thought. I backed up yesterday, so I went straight to boot from recovery through ROM. Just a bit scary when navigating through recovery mode. Thanks again.
 
ecpolo521 said:
Yep, that was a lot easier than I thought. I backed up yesterday, so I went straight to boot from recovery through ROM. Just a bit scary when navigating through recovery mode. Thanks again.
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Good deal. Glad you got it with no issues.

Now you've officially done some "hacking" to your phone :)
 
looks really good, but it got rid of my BlackMod theme when I installed it :-(. I'm gona have to get rid of it. But combine them and it'll be a force to be reconed with!
 
Nice! I need this, the stock one sucks. I tried to install CWM but Odin keeps freezing when i try and start the CWMRecovery.tar file in Odin. Anyone else having this problem? or know of a solution? I've tried all the compatibility modes and it still freezes...
 
andrew1263 said:
Nice! I need this, the stock one sucks. I tried to install CWM but Odin keeps freezing when i try and start the CWMRecovery.tar file in Odin. Anyone else having this problem? or know of a solution? I've tried all the compatibility modes and it still freezes...
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I asked you some follow up questions in your other post like this ;)
 
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