I've been using an xdaII for a year or so, and have just bought a large batch of xdaIIs devices at work. I'm happy with my xdaII though, but the only thing the IIs has that I wish I had is a battery power indicator on the front screen.
Is there a good but simple thrid party app that can get me this display? I really don't want to have to install something with loads of other tools that I don't need, but will do so if it is absolutely necessary.
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a very simple Battery monitor is Battery_ou
it gives you a small battery in the right top corner , with small bars to indicate remaining power.
and also put a shortcut to Running Programs next to the bluetooth icon in the right bottom corner.
I like it, some people don't. It is available in several extroms here in the forum, but when I get home I could upload it here.
A lot of them!...I use the SPB Pocket PLUS 2.2 and is a great program...not only the Battery level indicator! It has also a sort of battery line indicator on the top of the screen....look here if is this what U are looking for :wink:
Regards,
Primoz
p.s. There are some of this indicators for free and more simple...here.
Thanks - found just what I needed on Pocket Freewares
another one would be the SPB GPRS monitor... it doesnt only monitor your GPRS but HOW MUCH TIME your battery has left.. very nice indeed
A pure simple battery monitor for taskbar
I too hate those huge battery monitor programs...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=364278
Batti
Try googling for Batti for light-processing software then, or you might like the powerful SPB Pocket Plus 4.
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On the XDA2i, I've been having the small problem of running out of battey since i use it for phone calls.
But, unlike normal mobile phones, the XDA2i doesn't give audio warnings when low on battery, so i find that i end up with a dead phone when i need to make a call.
Is there any settings to enable audio warnings on low battery, or any good utilities which will allow this?
Thanks.
Have you tried Spb Pocket Plus?
It shows a battery meter on screen all the time.
You are also supposed to be able to change the settings in your phone at Alerts to warn you of low battery.
To answer the subject of this post: KBattery is a good, free battery charge monitor, I use it all the time. It sits in the menu bar at the top, where the clock is. Though if you have O2 Active installed, it has a battery monitor on the Today screen. But you've removed that already, haven't you?
As for audible alerts, I don't know how you would configure those. I tend to get a warning (text bubble tooltip style dialog and a two tone noise) from the phone when I reach 20% battery, and a bit later (I'm not sure what percentage of battery left triggers it) I am also warned when the battery is really low, I believe it's around 5%, and it cuts power to the SD card.
I've noticed that various functions shut down when battery runs low, but i dont seem to get any audio alerts. Now and then, the XDA can sit in my pocket for a few days so i might not open it up just to check on the battery level. Therefore, the battery gets drained and i would need to restore a backup.
If anyone knows how to access the setting to turn the audio warning on and off, please can you let me know.
Thanks
Here is a niceone indicator.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=364278
Should do the job.
I was using SPB Pocket Plus 3 on my MDA Compact, very handy tool as it allowed me to have have the icon launchers and the abilty to see the battery meter and also the close all option. Only bad this is it really drained the battery.
I have an M500 and was wondering if there is an alternative out there that didn't drain the battery so much. Or is there a way i can run it to save battery power.
Cheers
pda said:
I was using SPB Pocket Plus 3 on my MDA Compact, very handy tool as it allowed me to have have the icon launchers and the abilty to see the battery meter and also the close all option. Only bad this is it really drained the battery.
I have an M500 and was wondering if there is an alternative out there that didn't drain the battery so much. Or is there a way i can run it to save battery power.
Cheers
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I am using an XDA Mini, and My battery does not run down. I'm not sure what version of SPB Plus I'm using, but I got it about 4 months ago.
pda said:
I was using SPB Pocket Plus 3 on my MDA Compact, very handy tool as it allowed me to have have the icon launchers and the abilty to see the battery meter and also the close all option. Only bad this is it really drained the battery.
I have an M500 and was wondering if there is an alternative out there that didn't drain the battery so much. Or is there a way i can run it to save battery power.
Cheers
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I also use SpB Pocket Plus 3 but i have no problems with Battery drain. Anyway, to answer your question.
Resco Explorer 2005 and iLauncher(v2.2) support Meters on the Today Screen, similar to those in SpB Pocket Plus.
Hi I use TrayLaunch (cut from PHM Powertoys) for shortcuts on the today screen (well taskbar but it’s the same thing) and a program called powerstatus which shows a thin green bar (power) top left of the screen and also a red bar (RAM) top right of the screen.
As for an app to close the programs rather then simply minimising, I did some testing on my Mini and found that it would only allow a maximum of 6 to remain “minimised” in RAM. If you opened a 7th app it would automatically shut down the first app opened and so on. I only lost about 2-3Mb of RAM (I have 25Mb available) leaving the 6 apps running in RAM and had no significant time issues. If I want to close all programs for whatever reason I just use the O2 “Running Programs” app and close them all together.
So i have scrapped the close program idea altogether.
pda said:
I was using SPB Pocket Plus 3 on my MDA Compact, very handy tool as it allowed me to have have the icon launchers and the abilty to see the battery meter and also the close all option. Only bad this is it really drained the battery.
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I've used all the versions of PP on my Xda II and have not seen any evidence of bettery drain. Why do you blame PP? I've not heard anyone else blame PP for battery drain either.
Could it not be a combination of PP and some other software on your device. You should hard reset than load just PP and check, then add each other app. one at a time and see when the problem reoccurs, that would indicate the combination which causes the problem
Try this.
http://www.lakeridgesoftware.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=12
...or this:
http://www.sbsh.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=5896
The thing is I actually quite like SPB but since i installed version 3 and WisBar Advanced, my battery just drained like mad.
I haven't installed Wisbar on the new phone and i'm sceptical of putting Pocket plus on the phone as i don't want to be down to 20% battery power at lunch time when i had 100% in the morning. It wasn't the battery either as i swapped it with my mates battery and the same thing was happening.
Is there a way of monitoring what is using the most amount of battery power.
I run Mortsaver, anyone heard of any issues with it.
For me works on PP. I don't think that your problem it's PP.
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The thing is I actually quite like SPB but since i installed version 3 and WisBar Advanced, my battery just drained like mad.
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Why are you using WisBar with SPB?
I was....
Installed it to test if it was any good.
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I was....
Installed it to test if it was any good.
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i am using both of it. Cause P+ has this nice tabbed menus and wizbar the fancy taskbars... cant notice any battery drainage so far?!
I use resco explorer 2005 (5.22) for today plugin (meters and shortcuts) and MagicButton for closing application, tasks managing and to have a little nice battery indicator on the top (between the time and the Ok/X button).
Hope this helps.
PS: i quit using PP 'cos i had the impression it was slowing my magician down (maybe it was just an impression). Actually, resco today plugin requires less ram to run than PP (see this link)
Bye bye,
Isidoro
The battery drain comes from MortSaver. There is an option "turn off device on activation" which, who would have thought, turns off the device instead of only the screen. This, who would have thought, also reduces the battery drain dramatically. Pocket Plus isn't causing battery drain nor significant performance decrease on my Magician.
hello, i have a T mo wing with touch it 2.3. i just install battery status 1.04 beta2. and the battery seem to drain quite fast. Any advice on the battery status setting to slow down battery drain. I do not want to over clock anything by the way. just like the battery icon in the home page. thank you !
Batterystatus wont drain your battery faster unless you overclock it. Anyway here other Options..
1) if you've resco explorer, they bungle today plugin(free with resco explorer(shareware)) with it, which can show battery
2) sbsh ilauncher also shows battery
3) spb pocket plus
4) batti(Freeware), while does not show battery info on today screen, shows it right above the topbar
i think what kdskamal was initially getting at (mayb) was that some cooks set batterystatus to overclock as the default setting, so you should check that this has not been done first.
I know you didn't want to try overclocking but if power consumption is such an issue you should consider trying the cpuscaler...i don't use it myself but I've heard that it makes a noticable difference. Apart from that all you can do is change the WLAN setting to best battery, (if you use WLAN alot) and keep the screen brightness down (yeah no sh*t!.)
hope that helps
Backlight may be the case. In touch it, the backlight is set on the extreme. This can be the cause of quick battery drain. Try stepping it down a little
Anyone experiencing unexplainable battery drain on their Atom Lifes? I recently did a hard reset then re-installed the following apps:
Pocket Informant 8
Pocket Plus 4
Hikeyboard
Phoneweaver 1.2.1
Smart Text
Worldmate 2007 Standard
Stow away keyboard driver
E-Wallet
List Pro
My ROM: WWE_RC2170507B2
Can it be one or a combination of my apps is causing this drain? Please help.
Right now, with regular use(phone and sms) I need to charge twice a day!
Thanks,
Bree
Bree said:
Anyone experiencing unexplainable battery drain on their Atom Lifes? I recently did a hard reset then re-installed the following apps:
Pocket Informant 8
Pocket Plus 4
Hikeyboard
Phoneweaver 1.2.1
Smart Text
Worldmate 2007 Standard
Stow away keyboard driver
E-Wallet
List Pro
My ROM: WWE_RC2170507B2
Can it be one or a combination of my apps is causing this drain? Please help.
Right now, with regular use(phone and sms) I need to charge twice a day!
Thanks,
Bree
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Bai!
Try to discharge the battery fully. then charge it. or the batt maybe old na. You may need to replace it, there are many good 3rd party batt available. just search the net
thanks for the suggestion! actually cleaned the battery contacts(read this from another post), feel there's a slight improvement. will try to drain the battery completely, and see what happens.
Yes, more than likely that your battery is dead and you need a new one. I just replaced mine
My battery life is decent, once I started keeping the screen brightness on a lower setting it helped a great deal.
Close software after use.
Hi
There is no issue about battery if i use it for basic phone and 30 minutes wifi browsing each day. GPRS browsing may consume too much power.
Do not use WorldMate if not required. HTC Plugin is 100 times better than it if you want only weather temparature.
Dont install too many softwares. If you opened any application try to close it completely eitehr with O2connect bar or from Running Programs in Memory section of Settings.
My O2 Atom Life uses around 40% battery power each day with basic phone use (1 hours talk) and 30 minutes wifi browsing and few other simple tasks of shorter usage.
Its exactly what they say....... Results may vary...lolz
i have o2 atom life .. if hot pda hence cannot charge.. but if pda normal (not hot) hence charge normaly..
why??
Anyone know of a status bar Battery Icon that also shows drain in either mA or mW?
If not, perhaps someone around here might be interested in creating one as I have looked but cannot find one. (I do not mean a Today Plugin like HomeScreenPlusPlus/BatterStatus)
The idea:
Essentially similar to the WM Battery Icon that is there now with bars showing charge but with added feature of numerals showing mA drain. These numeral could either be overlayed on the icon or squeezed beneath it in tiny font.
The advantage of this arrangement is:
1) it would work with TF3D on a Diamond. This is because it would not be a today plugin. Simpy an alternative to the current battery icon on the Status bar.
2) Would enable user to always see charge remaining and current load.
I like the idea of always being able to see the load on my battery as often I have apps running in the background which are chewing through the battery. Conversely if the mA drain is low I know these apps cannot be running and all is good. Makes for an easy way to increase battery life.
Essentially all the app would have to do is somehow ascertain current drain in mA and display it over the battery bars on the icon. Nothing more. Be great if one of you clever programs could put this together. I reckon it would be popular.
Would any one else be interested in a replacement for the default status bar battery icon that worked like this?
Battery Status is ur best bet