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More accurate battery app?

cydewaze

cydewaze

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I've been looking for a battery widget to tell me my remaining charge state as a percentage, but so far all of them go in increments of 10% (i.e. 90% left, to 80%, to 70%, etc). Does anyone know of one that breaks it down a little more finely?
 
Yes, but I would argue that it's certainly not more accurate than the stock meter or any other one that reads the data from the system directly.
 
Aha. I had "Bat Stat" not "BattStatt".

I've installed it, but it also reads in increments of 10. I wonder if it's a "feature" of a Droid 2. Does it have to be rooted for these things to work down to the 1%?
 
This does depend on your device. Motorola phones can only display remaining battery in increments of 10 (until you get below 20%), as the power manager can only return a limited set of values (100, 90, 80, 70, 60, 50, 40, 30, 20, 15, 10, 5). Some apps (like Battstat, mentioned above) work around this by comparing battery voltage history to battery percentage history and estimating the values in between, but as lex said, this isn't necessarily any more accurate than the value being returned by the power manager.

Of course, if you have an HTC phone, then the link 4fit posted will work. It won't do you any good with a Motorola phone, though.
 
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