I was wondering firstly if there was a way to turn off the annoying "battery low" messages which appear when the battery is under 20%.
Also, is there a way to use the SD and WLAN features when the battery is below 10% - perhaps a reg fix of some sort, as currently it doesnt allow me to use these features when the battery is below 10% which can be very inconvenient!
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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.
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I hate it!
I know how long the device runs for and how long i have once i get to 20% so why does the damn thing insist on keeping giving notifications and to cap it all off, disabling the SD card (or shutting down if i'm running TomTom5)
Is it possible to change this to a sensible limit, say 10% charge before any action is taken??
I hate it too... It has to be somewhere in the registry... Not that difficult
I too would LOVE to see somebody find a hack to disable this
I'd have mine wait til 5% before shutting me down, its so irritating!
Me too....
My 9000 works almost great even with 1% of battery now with WM 5.0. Of course I loose access to the SD card but still the phone works like a charm until 1%. So it is really irritating to have those notifications...
hm..
AFAIK you cannot change the level on which the warning is generated, but at least you can disable the annoying pop-up.
To do so open a registry editor and go to: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\ControlPanel\Notifications\{A877D663-239C-47a7-9304-0D347F580408}\
Create a new String value with the name "Default" and the value to "Low Batt Warning".
Then go into your notification settings, choose "Low Batt Warning" and disable the notification. You can leave LED flashing on or let your device vibrate to drain the battery a bit faster
Hope this helps.
Cheers
Tweaks will do it for you
When the battery of my TyTN gets at 20%, I start getting system notifications warning me about a low level battery and others telling me to charge the battery like the manual says so.
The issue is that at 20% the TyTN still has a lot of life time, and meanwhile until the battery gets completely drained, I get MANY of these notifications that keep disturbing, it really isn't handy.
Does anyone know any solution for this? Maybe some way to start this notification only at 10% and maybe making them fewer.
It's only needed one or two notifications to remember us we are getting low on battery power, no need to keep reminding it all the time...
Thank you.
It's anoying me aswell...
I hope they fix this in the new ROM.
On the same general topic, anyone else find the battery status to be inaccurate?
I've re-enabled the small, four-bar battery indicator at the bottom of the home screen with a hack from MoDaCo.
Thing is, it's full most of the time - then wack! it goes to one-bar red and I start getting notifications. It doesn't seem very dependable. Anyone else get this?
Marques said:
It's only needed one or two notifications to remember us we are getting low on battery power, no need to keep reminding it all the time...
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same problem with me. looks like there is some serious bug with low level battery notification. in my case, i have Magic Button installed and i'm using its feature, which shows thin battery bar at top 2 pixels of screen (something like Batti). each time when i wake up my Vario II, this indicator always shows 100% battery for 2-3 seconds, after which it refreshes back to current state.
so this thing brings the idea, that these multiple notifications are caused because device 'thinks' that battery is full after each wake up, but after few seconds it turns out that it isn't, so system is generating notification - again and again after each wake up.
I've been having similar issues except in my case the battery is actually full.
The device powers up after being in 'sleep' mode (or sometimes during normal usage) and generates low battery notifications, even though the battery has been on charge all night and is actually full or at nearly full charge.
A soft re-set doesn't seem to help but physically switching the device off and on again seems to fix the problem (the battery showing 100% afterwards) but theres a definate bug with the power monitoring software
I really want to know how to modify registry of Hermes to avoid low battery notification too
Just a thought, on other devices such as the universal and breeze etc... (i see ive mentioned smartphones aswell as ppc) ... is the battery indicator shown in 10% blocks like the hermes or are they in steps of 1%?????
Anyone know of a reg hack or possibility that this will be changeable to 1% steps???????? (ROM change or the like?)
Ah yes, pretty irritating, guess we'll have to wait for the rom updates?
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Anyone know of a reg hack or possibility that this will be changeable to 1% steps???????? (ROM change or the like?)
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There is still no way to change the battery monitor to 1% steps.
From what I've checked, there is still no fix for this massive flood of low battery notifications. If anyone have any other idea... please share it.
My WM6 ROM show low battery warning at 40% - really annoying. I really just want to get of these notifications altogether!!
One possible cause of the battery showing that it is full only to have it drop 50-80% after a few minutes is that you are using a trickle-charger such as the USB cable to charge it.
When charging with one of these devices, when the battery says it's fully charged it usually isn't. You will want to take it off of the charger for a minute or two after it says it is full and then put the charger back on if you want to get a consistent full charge with a trickle charger.
Any news about the annoying low battery notifications?
I hate it and I would like to kill it forever...
Thanks
SaRo
In s-k software's sktools there an option to allow it to show the low battery notification in the sounds and notifications. I find this very useful as i disable the message on the screen which gets in the way when it pops up to tell you battery is low. You can even change the sound or just disable the notification completely! Theres got to be a reg setting for it so people can use this little hack without buying the program.
Firstly, this is in relation to the battery drain issue concerning the 'time without signal' bug.
Okay, I've done three repeated tests, all leading to the same results. Basically, it seems that when I restart/reboot my phone, a number of applications etc. show up in the 'battery use' menu, including 'Android OS' and 'Android Operating System', 'Dialer', etc. Battery drain at this stage is quite bad at around 8-10 (Battery ETA) percent per hour with barely any use. Now, when I plug my phone briefly into the computer letting it charge a few percent, and then unplug it (under usb setting, without detecting sd cards), these applications reduce down to only four in the 'battery use' menu (Display, Cell standby, phone idle and android system).
More importantly, the 'time without signal' info mysteriously disappears from the 'cell standby menu', and battery drain reduces to 3.4 (Battery ETA) percent per hour with me playing around with the settings/apps etc.
This seems like a temporary fix to what seems to be a phone radio searching/standby issue. Can others try what I did and report back? I have little knowledge in application development, etc. so I'm hoping someone can deduce the source of the problem from this information.
Also, my phone is a stock galaxy s i9000 from virgin mobile Australia.
Update: same effect also with wall plug. Phone must be on, and only after cable is unplugged, the aformentioned occurs.
Hi.
I also notice the issue.
For example, after 4 hours and 18 m, I'm with 70% of battery left.
And I didn't do ANYTHING. Just navigate through the menu.
I tried many ROMS and the issue remains. Now I'm running on the Darky's ROM, and it is really good. Someone says that reduces battery consumption. I didn't noticed that.
Anyway, I always do the recharge with the device ON but I don't see battery save. ~10% consumption per hour.
I tried everything to reduce the battery drain!
Now I'm testing SuperPower from XDA (you can find it on the market), it's amazing, it allows you to configure profiles in each states of the phone: awake, lockscreen, sleep. It can slowdown CPU speed, disable WiFi and Mobile Data, disable autosync, and more.
Sounds good each of these features, but remember that it is still a beta.
I'm using it right now, but as you can se, the battery drain continues....
I have seen many posts about the poor battery life on the ADAM when in heavy/normal use. I have seen very bad battery drain just in standby/sleep on all the roms I have tested (Stock Newest build, edenx, and now CM7). SetCpu currently doesn't support profiles but I wonder if the processor still runs heavily even when in standby.
I should note that i usually turn off WIFI when not in use and also background data sync.
Pixel Qi Wifi.
As usual, after unplugging the device in the morning and not touching it for 8+ hours, it has about 50% battery left and battery history shows Phone Standby using all the battery. I guess these quirks will not be resolved until Honeycomb if ever.
Which do you mean "cell standby" or "phone idle"? I have the same model and the battery still drains more than expect overnight, but notas much as 50%. Did you apply a fix to remove cell standby?
Phone idle is what is reported. Here is a more specific example: on battery power for 10 hours today in standby with wifi off and background sync off and the battey is down to 55%. This is not a huge problem but I dont like to leave it on the charger constantly when not in use.
Kill the "phone Idle" <- that's really draining and if you don't use SIP on a WiFi only you can de-install phone and phoneprovider
2 other things you could try,
Install from the market:
"autokiller memory optimizer" and
"Juice defender"
They seem to help for me.
or use BEAST ROM 2.2. My ADAM batterie status is after 23 hours on 36%.