It used to be there, and now it's gone! i didn't do anything, soft reset doesn't help! any ideas?
Rob
Hi Rob
Having the same problem with the Xda Exec.
After I did a soft rest the battery icon desapered.
Anybody out they knows how to get it back on the Today Screen.
Please help.
Gigino
I actually searched for a while to find a way to remove the battery icon. In the end, the only way I'm aware of to remove it is to run this:
Signed_UNI_Remove_BatteryIcon.sa.CAB
from the O2 XDA Exec extended ROM. Since I have a Jasjar I had to download that cab from the FTP site here. My guess is that you have an XDA Exec and you recently hard reset it and allowed the CABs in the extended ROM to run, or you ran that program from the extended ROM manually.
Unfortunately, I'm not sure how you undo it once it's been run. It doesn't appear in Remove Programs and while I'm sure it just makes a registry change somewhere I haven't got a clue where
Personally, I never did like that battery icon anyway... it didn't seem to be terribly accurate and it was only visible from the today screen. I use the freeware program batti as a battery monitor instead.
hth,
Brett
I have the same problem, though I don't miss it that much. Must specify that in my case, it didn't happen after a soft reset, it just happened.
Have you not tried opening the CAB in WinRAR, manually looking at the files and attempting to find which registry entry it modifies? I can't find the CAB on the FTP site, but I'm not that bothered as I don't have a Magician but if someone passes me a link for it, I'll have a look.
try this regkey
HKLM\services\power\ShowIcon
Change the 0 to 1
Soft reset - and you're cookin'
Nice one, giving that a go now - slightly unrelated but I'm using GS Pocket Magic and when using the 'Close All' command, my shortcut bar buttons disappear, the ones at the bottom of the screen that read CONTACTS and CALENDAR.
Any ideas?
ashleyhall said:
Nice one, giving that a go now - slightly unrelated but I'm using GS Pocket Magic and when using the 'Close All' command, my shortcut bar buttons disappear, the ones at the bottom of the screen that read CONTACTS and CALENDAR.
Any ideas?
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It's a known issue with Pocket Magic... there was a thread on it a while ago. From what I understand, there is some program or process that runs in the background that makes those shortcut buttons appear. Since Pocket Magic was designed for WM 2003 it doesn't know about that process, so it kills it when you do the close all. Since I'm no longer using Pocket Magic I don't know if anyone has managed to resolve the issue.
Brett
Ok, thanks for your reply - I notice PocketMagic has the functionality to NOT terminate certain programs (this option is in the Preferences for it), so if we can identify this process, we can exclude it...
I'll investigate...hang on!
Frustratingly my version of SKTools only lists the top 6 processes, if we can go through each one by one, we can suss out which process it is!
hi Robt,
to get back your battery icon, just do a hard reset and the battery icon it will appear again..it works for me. i've got same problem like you.
hope this help you and other
ps:i'm use universal with corporate install
good luck
NO Don't hard reset, thats just stupid!! For anyone looking for a genuine answer that won't cause loss of data, do this...as the chap recommends above.
1. Use registry editor to browse to 'HKLM\services\power\ShowIcon'
2. Change the value 0 to a 1
3. Soft reset
No data lost, and a nice battery icon for you!
since i dont have many data and many program installed in my exec, the simple things just do it my way (although u will lose your data). but hey that the simple way since i'm a beginner and it's difficult doing some registry hack for me. any way you can do it with hard reset or soft reset like ashley.
my 2 cents
Did you mean the batter icon at the top of the screen or at the bottom. Because the batter icon in the title bar is an O2 program that runs from a link in the start up folder.
The problem with doing it with a hard reset to get the battery icon back is: as soon as you perform a soft reset, you will again loose the battery icon. So there is no point really of performing a hard reset to get the battery icon back since you will loose it anyway if you perform a soft reset.
To me this battery icon is USELESS! Why? Its only purpose is a shortcut to Start>Settings>System>Memory>Battery level. To be completely useful to me, it should be a real INDICATOR icon of the actual battery level. But sadly it is not. Maybe this is the reason why they want it out of the way.
Plus, I use HandyMenu which has an option to show the battery level at an instant. Plus I get more functionality with it.
Maybe we're talking about different battery meters but mine appears bottom right hand corner and acfurately reflects the status of the battery - The simple registry change does it!
ashleyhall said:
Maybe we're talking about different battery meters but mine appears bottom right hand corner and acfurately reflects the status of the battery - The simple registry change does it!
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Yes, that is the icon I was referring to. The one that can be shown by what you posted.
HMMMMMMM, maybe I did not look hard enough on mine. I remmber on mine when my battery was 89%, the battery icon still looks like it was full, thus making my assumption it does not reflect the actual battery charge. I did notice that it shows if I have it plugged in though. Maybe I should try it again, now that my battery is low.
cktlcmd said:
HMMMMMMM, maybe I did not look hard enough on mine. I remmber on mine when my battery was 89%, the battery icon still looks like it was full, thus making my assumption it does not reflect the actual battery charge. I did notice that it shows if I have it plugged in though. Maybe I should try it again, now that my battery is low.
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It does show the battery charge, but it does a terrible job of it. As I recall, the battery needs to get well past 75% before the icon shows anything but a full charge. It was really pretty useless if you ask me.
Brett
BrettS said:
It does show the battery charge, but it does a terrible job of it. As I recall, the battery needs to get well past 75% before the icon shows anything but a full charge. It was really pretty useless if you ask me.
Brett
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Thanks BrettS, you save me a reset. I was timing my lovely puppy here how long it can work without any problems without a soft reset. So far 5 days and still running in excellent condition. I am trying to prove to myself that pocket PCs nowadays are stable as can be. This is my first pocket PC and I was afraid to buy a pocket PC before because a lot of palm users said you need to soft reset PPCs a lot to get it running neatly. Now I know it is BOGUS and purely INCORRECT.
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The problem with doing it with a hard reset to get the battery icon back is: as soon as you perform a soft reset, you will again loose the battery icon. So there is no point really of performing a hard reset to get the battery icon back since you will loose it anyway if you perform a soft reset.
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in my case, after performing a hard reset to get back my battery icon, i didnt
notice and didnt count exactly how many times after i performed soft reset then the battery icon gone again.because this my first experience with battery icon vanished. but as long i remembered, after i performed a hard reset then next day performed a soft reset, the battery icon still there.so i assumed that the best way for me to get battery icon back, since i'm not expert with registry hack and worried if do anything wrong with my new toys.
just want to share my experience with a beginner solution.
yeah maybe the icon is not usefull, but the icon looks cute.
Pardon the silly question but I did a forum search first...
Every phone I've ever had has always given me 2 things on the top line of every screen built-in. i.e. no tricks, or hacks needed:
- phone signal indicator
- battery status indicator
Unless I've missed the obvious, I can't seem to get a battery status indicator on the top line of the screen on my ATT 8525. What gives?
SPB pocket plus 3 has the batt indicator on every screen, in the form of a dotted/dash line across the very top edge of the screen. looks like ----------------
half the screen = half battery left
As I said in my original post. Every phone I've ever used just shows it on the screen by default. I realize I can always spend even more money to make it happen.
I just find it hard to stomach that a multi 100's $ phone (or maybe it's the OS) can't show me a battery indicator without having to buy 3rd-party stuff...
Yes, its in (or not...) the os.
Google for Batti. It's free, does the same and more.
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Pardon the silly question but I did a forum search first...
Every phone I've ever had has always given me 2 things on the top line of every screen built-in. i.e. no tricks, or hacks needed:
- phone signal indicator
- battery status indicator
Unless I've missed the obvious, I can't seem to get a battery status indicator on the top line of the screen on my ATT 8525. What gives?
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You can get the battery status on your 8525! It will replace the area were the time is given. You can still select 'show time in programs' option and it will show time on any screen except for the home screen. I use the HTC today plugin so Ive got time there.
The good thing about putting the battery indicator on the top bar is that it gives you the % of battery remaining (in 10% steps of course)
I believe its in the hermes wiki on registry stuff....
Of course it does require a registry editor (I believe that we all need to get into it eventually, so if you have not yet then maybe it's time..)
from the wiki..
Show Time,Date,both or Battery on top bar at Today screen
[HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Shell\]
Time:
"ShowTitleBarClock"=1 / "TBOpt"=1
Date:
"ShowTitleBarClock"=1 / "TBOpt"=2
Both:
"ShowTitleBarClock"=1 / "TBOpt"=3
Nothing:
"ShowTitleBarClock"=1 / "TBOpt"=0
Battery:
"ShowTitleBarClock"=0 / "TBOpt"=1
Hello every one. I really need your help course i've searched for days for this and coudn't find an answer.
That is the radio signal can't be displayed normally on the top bar, and it is replaced by a strange icon seems to be a broken activesync connection.
I 've tried the rom version of UNI_TMNL_130115_130233_11003_WWE_BL101_Ship, and UNI_TMO_TMO_HR_20041_200147_11700_WWE_Ship but the problem is still there.
After a hardreset , things come back to normal.(The "G" icon comes back). But if i do a softreset,the "G" icon would be replaced again. I hate having a broken link icon on my top bar!! and my "G" icon disappears.
I've spent day on that problem and couldn't fix it and come here for help.
Is it a reg problem or system service "official bug"? I dont want to change the rom version to wm6, I just want to fix this.
And screen capture attached.
Thanks in advance.
Any help would be appreciated
And in advance, create registry key:
HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Shell\TaskBar\LegacyGprsNotification = 1 (DWORD)
doen't work for me. Maybe that's for wm6 and mine is on wm5.
I have a strange (to me) icon on the top pull down bar, next to the battery icon. It is a circle with a line thru it from about 11 to 5 o'clock. Any body know what it meens? I have not found the symbol in the manual.
I belive that means no mobile connection. I get the symbol when first booting up for a few moments, and then it is replaced with the bars indicating reception.
Thanks for your quick reply dbregman . I couldn't find it in the manual and was wondering what it means.