Hi guys first post! Just got O2 XDA mini S and used hard reset to go to corporate settings but have now lost battery status which shows %age power left (I found it quite useful). Any ideas how to get it back?
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Hi guys first post! Just got O2 XDA mini S and used hard reset to go to corporate settings but have now lost battery status which shows %age power left (I found it quite useful). Any ideas how to get it back?
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Use some Today plugin, ie. iLauncher from SBSH.
And: does anyone know the program that will be able to show the estimated 'time to live' on the battery or ltime left to the next charging? I had something like this on my old motorola MPx200. It wasn't too acurate, but also quite useful.
Thanks in advance,
Radek
In the Windows folder on your phone, find a file called PowerTray and copy it to the StartUp folder in the Windows folder.
Voila!
Thanks bsterngillet I'd just found that elsewhere on the forum. It's not quite what I was looking for as I found the %age charge left useful - I know I can just click on it but I really am lazy :lol:
If you do find any more info please let me know.
You can use Batti, a small application shows ajustable bar
on top of screen and it is free...
http://pda.jasnapaka.com/batti/
Thanks bsterngillet I'd just found that elsewhere on the forum. It's not quite what I was looking for as I found the %age charge left useful - I know I can just click on it but I really am lazy :lol:
If you do find any more info please let me know.
I don't understand why people can't get the one that was there... back.
I mean, it was there!
Why use Corporate?
Why not use Basic, then you get the battery bar, all the GPRS/MMS settings, etc. and performance is good.
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Why not use Basic, then you get the battery bar, all the GPRS/MMS settings, etc. and performance is good.
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But not as good as corporate! Plus, it's just nice not to have ANY O2 rubbish on the phone ... except the splash screen (still working on it) and the logo on the casing (guess I'll have to live with that one)!
Hi wondering if someone can help.
In the latest rom update from O2 if you install the active UI it will give you a battery today plugin which is quite handy.
Now my question we all know the ActiveUI is horrible will slow down the exec and take up to much space. Is there anyway of stripping out this battery today plugin form the ActiveUI and creating a cab file so it will just install this part. I think the file that is needed from the ActiveUI is BatteryNFO.
Many Thanks
Scott
Wow 50 views and still no one got an answer????
Got to say I'd love this too. I've tried other battery monitors, and none are as good as that one.
Ok i have been looking in to this since i posted and have extracted the signed_UNI_o2AUI4_build88.cab file to my home machine. From What i can see there are 7 files that could be related to this 4 of which start with batter~1.029 and so on the other 3 start with power_~1.070. is there anyway of telling what these files are actually for.
Im no expert at this but surely it can be done as i have seen people have ripped the connection settings from this cab file before so surely the same sort of thing can be done with this.
Cheers
Scott
i agree...looks quite nice this battery plug-in...hope sum1 finds a way of getting it as a cab file soon
Still looking in to this and not going to let it beat me to.
Has anybody ever used this software before.
http://www.pocketgear.com/software_detail.asp?id=12093
MagicCab PocketPC CAB extractor 0.63
It looks like it is going to do what i need and be able to strip out the battery today plugin from the cab and even tell us what reg settings we need to enter to if i am reading it right but before i commit myself to the $10.95 has anyone ever used it before to clarify that it will do what i need it to do.
If you want something more professional use WCE CAB Manager.
Why not use Batti ?
It gives you just as much information, doesn't take up valuable Today space or slow down your machine, is visible in every application not just Today, and runs in just 20K. And it's free
Right
So far with the advice given to me by ibendlin about wince cab manager and after several hard resets (trial and error thank god for spbpocket backup lol) i have manged to get half way there. But i am having a problem getting the skins to work
As you can see i have manged to sort the today plugin but im having problems getting the skins working even after a soft reset.
Maybe someone can offer some advice i will gladly forward the cab that i have created so far if anyone can offer some suggestions.
Ineedtoys: So far i have manged to get this down to 14kb as for the space on the today screen user preference really, but thank you for your advice on batti.
Anyway off to bed will work on this some more tomorrow
OK, if you dont activate the ActiveUI thing in programs then you can have life without it. To get it to go away now that its on goto \windows\startup and delete the ActiveUI file in there. You cant seem to unistall the program. I just avoid the icon like the pluage.
There are more complex ways of getting what your looking for, but this one is simple and effective
JAmes
ps. then soft reset
Hi James
Tis true what you are saying and this way will work but unfortunatly you will also get about 10mb worth of extra programs installed from the activeUI which take up the oh so precious Device storage space where the actual battery bar it's self only takes up around 14kb
But thanks anyway
yeah but the newer people to the scene might not like playing about with things. I've only just got use to playing about with stuff and up untill now I've been using this solution.
Now i've had the phone a wee while i'm happy to start going for corporate mode but was easier not to when i was just getting use to the whole PDA type stuff
JAmes
I know what you mean we all had to start somewhere right lol.
I stopped using the the personal install about a month after i had my exec it was only through advice from these forums that i actually found out how much space the activeUI took up and also how much it slowed it down.
I use this one:
it shows 2 lines: one for main Battery status and one for Backup Battery status (no more exists in WM5); it works well
tried this one but I still think the one in the latest rom release from O2 looks sharper/prettier....
Yeah i'm planning on giving up the basic mode soon.
let me know how you get on, as I too like this battery meter.
JAmes
Fellas
I Have done it, Sort of. Still a few bugs but i don't think i will be able to sort these limited knowledge and already about 10 hard reset's.
I have been using now for around 8 or 9 hours now and all seems to be fine after the install no memory loss or anything.
Works well in True VGA to.
congrats m8..any chance of u posting the cab file here?
hiya scotjen,
dont mind you posting it out here??
thanks...
damn, I still have a Champions League game against Arsenal later.
got to get back to training soon
Well done.
What bugs are you still experiencing. Maybe someone could advise you further?
i tried looking and no luck. i remember when i had my tilt 1 i had a program called battery status. told me the temp (in imperial) and all sorts of stuff. i tried installing it on my tilt deuce and nothing. so i was wondering if there is a cab file laying around that will work with the touch flo 3d? thanks and keep rocking the htc.
I use nuePowerCPL
It is a control panel app that shows up in your settings.
sweet ill look for that.
ok i installed it and now im uninstalling it. made things not work. brought up an error message. shell32.exe problem.
Hi,
I have seen a rom with a tool named iBattery in it, i think it was in a energyrom. . . take a look...
search batti works great tells voltage -temp very pretty and highly customizable
This is what your looking for:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=612083
Cheers!
I got tired of the ugly green buttons and checkboxes in the ROMs built off of the newer Sense builds, so I yanked the pretty blue ones from the latest AT&T Tilt 2 official ROM and cabbed 'em up. Pictures:
My goal with this was, primarily, to get rid of the rancid green color. As such, for the most part, a lot of the graphical components of Sense have been left untouched. I have specifically not included anything that changes the home tab graphics or the tab slider. As pictured above, for the most part the only items which should be altered are the following:
Checkboxes
Sliders
Radio Buttons
Selection Highlights
Calendar Day Squares
Note that, while the blue highlights do appear in sense-specific tabs, they do not change the standard WinMo menu colors. Further, not all of the green has been replaced. There are still a few little buttons squirreled away in the operating system that I do not know the location of. If anybody sees one after installing this cab, and also knows where the offending file is buried, please feel free to share. The primary purpose of this thread is to stamp out the green menace.
Okay: Standard disclaimer time!
THIS IS ONLY FOR DEVICES RUNNING SENSE 2.5.
Seriously, if you are not running Sense 2.5, DO NOT install this.
THIS HAS ONLY BEEN TESTED BY ME ON MY WVGA DEVICE. If you have a HVGA or QVGA device, this may well not work for you at all, and I would not recommend it. As I do not have a device in either of those resolutions which runs Sense, I will not be offering anything in those resolutions. I'll include a zip file of all of the files included in the cab in case anyone wants to mess with them. It's not like I created them, anyway.
THE ATTACHED CAB FILE COPIES OVER MANILA SYSTEM FILES. While I have found it to be uninstallable for me, I make no guarantees that anyone else's experience will be the same. Copying over system files of any sort brings with it the inherent risk of a possible hard reset, especially because I barely know what I'm doing with any of this. That having been said, this has been working well for me. Let me know if your results are any different.
Further, I have only tested this on my Tilt 2, which has WVGA resolution, was already Hard SPL'd, and running a cooked ROM. You may well need to install SDKcerts before this will install correctly. A quick search of the forums will provide this for you if you need it.
NOTE: As the cab copies over Manila system files, it is highly recommended that you exit Sense before installing. In your settings menu, under "Home", uncheck "HTC Sense" under the "Items" tab. Doing this should exit Sense, and you should now be able to access whatever file explorer you use through the start menu to install this thing.
If you do not exit sense before installing, and something gets borked, don't ask me how to fix it. Well, I mean, you can ask, it's just that I'm not going to be able to tell you anything useful.
Cheers!
Edit: Ack! Forgot to mention that the manila files in these are CFC compressed, so if you don't have a ROM that's set up for that, you WILL need to apply the CFC-enable patch. Check with your chef to confirm if they use CFC compression (most cooked roms will, stock roms will not), and search the forum for the patch file. I'll try to update these later when I'm back on my home PC; don't have the files handy on my phone at the moment.
I really dig the blue, one suggestion though. I'm sure you may've looked into it but changing the battery color on the top bar to blue would be nice.
Yeah. I'm trying to decide how I'm gonna handle the battery indicator. The big poot about it is that it's stuffed inside a dll as 100 different images. 1 for each percentage point. Of course, then there's the one for charge state, and probably more that I'm forgetting at the moment.
So, yeah, I'm mulling over my options.
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Yeah. I'm trying to decide how I'm gonna handle the battery indicator. The big poot about it is that it's stuffed inside a dll as 100 different images. 1 for each percentage point. Of course, then there's the one for charge state, and probably more that I'm forgetting at the moment.
So, yeah, I'm mulling over my options.
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Wow, what a fustercluck. I can't believe it's supposed to show each percentage point of difference, honestly I thought it did every 10 percent.
Working well on TouchPro
Thank you for this nice mod. I am using TouchPro (VGA) and your theme is working very well
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Wow, what a fustercluck. I can't believe it's supposed to show each percentage point of difference, honestly I thought it did every 10 percent.
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It works in 10% steps by default but someone wrote a mod that changed it to 1% steps, I think.. I have never been in a situation where I needed to know how EXACTLY how much battery life I had left. I left it out for like one version and lotsa people asked for it back. I guess people just WANT, regardless of how useful it is . I mean I'm not complaining, I just feel sorry for those guys that make taskbars. This is probably why we don't see too many of em anyways.
Fo serious. Additionally, it's all canned up in that .dll along with everything else for the taskbar, so modding just the battery means using a modified version of someone else's work for the rest, which some folk get less than thrilled about. I've started cannibalizing little bits of other folk's pretty picture bits for my own personal enjoyment, but it's nothing that can be reposted here. Meh. Oh well, at least it's Friday.
The default 10% battery meter increment is terrible, IMO. No, you don't need to know the power remaining to 1% accuracy, but its very helpful to know what it is more accurately than 10%. On the 10% meter, 50% and 59% both read as "50%". That much inaccuracy can be a big deal if you're running low on charge, and not near a power source, no charger, etc.
I can understand how this makes it a pain to work on the taskbar. But aside from that, I've seen far more people that prefer the 1% increment to 10%.
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The default 10% battery meter increment is terrible, IMO. No, you don't need to know the power remaining to 1% accuracy, but its very helpful to know what it is more accurately than 10%. On the 10% meter, 50% and 59% both read as "50%". That much inaccuracy can be a big deal if you're running low on charge, and not near a power source, no charger, etc.
I can understand how this makes it a pain to work on the taskbar. But aside from that, I've seen far more people that prefer the 1% increment to 10%.
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There is a reason why a lot of PDA manufacturers use only 10% increment battery meters: You cannot measure battery capacity so precisely. There is no sense in using 1% increment imho.
There's a lot of truth to that. The problem is that a user who is presented with a percentage expects a measure in 100 increments, whether it's accurate or not, because that's what we understand percent measure to be. Average user doesn't get that it's a battery issue and not an icon issue. Fix would be to use an icon that people do not have an ingrained understanding of being able to measure at a more accurate level; however, as there's not really an icon option with 10 increments that fits into the taskbar in an aesthetically pleasing way, we use percentages, and are where we are now. Personally, even understanding the limits of battery measure accuracy, I like the percentages, but probably mostly because I, like most people, can relate easily to a percent measure.
Hah! As with all questions on the board, the answer already existed on the board.
Nice android-themed taskbar icons colored in blue. This is what I am now running on my device.
Of all things, there's even a version without percentage numbers for Jackos!
Man, I'm totally jazzed now. With my taskbar issue resolved, I may see if I can take some time this weekend or this upcoming week to try and learn how to skin some of the other ugly green bits still in my phone that don't already have drop-in files in the AT&T rom to cover them.
Hey FL5!
First of all, thanks for cabbing it all up and the effort you already put into this . I haven't run across many green stuff since I installed it, so I think you got quite a lot of it eliminated .
Having it installed however, a couple of things I would have liked to keep the way they were also changed.
Is there some way to figure out how to select different elements to change or keep?
I've got a cab creator, so the only (probably quite big) thing I need to select my own preferences is a list with what's what in it!
Since you've been looking into this already, I thought you maybe have some sort of overview on this, so I don't have to change every file manually to see what it does.
The things I don't like blue are for example:
Contact view tabs
Music library tabs
Month header at calendar tab
Some things still green (don't know if this is helpful or not):
The account selection icon on mail-tab.
Camera options
It's nothing all that complicated.
The cab file takes the stuff that's in the zip file and copies it into \Windows over the gross green files. You can trail-and-error your way around with it and see what you do and don't like.
As far as viewing the files outside of your phone, the only files in that zip pack are png & bmp images, which you can view in most image viewers, and manila files, which can be viewed (mostly with descriptions, no less) in chainfire's cfc tool.
Copying some bits over the black bits was really just stuff that happened when I was trail-and-erroring my way through, and just kinda liked the results. I'll play around with this a bit and see if I can't come up with something for you.
As an aside, how would anyone feel about leaving home tab buttons black at rest, but then highlighting in blue when pressed? I've been running mine like that for a bit and I quite enjoy it. I've also swapped out the music tab buttons for blue ones, which I could see as being quite user-preference. Perhaps I'll make separate cabs so that folk can pick-and-choose.
Would be awesome for sure!
Highest awesomeness would be achieved by a "green to blue" cab and additional "black to blue" cabs .
If you want any help with doing this just let me know! (like opening a section of the manila files in that program and sort them into those 2 categories)
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The things I don't like blue are for example:
Contact view tabs
Music library tabs
Month header at calendar tab
Some things still green (don't know if this is helpful or not):
The account selection icon on mail-tab.
Camera options
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That tab slider button for contacts, music, etc. is all the same file. Original black one attached.
Original black header for calendar tab month view attached.
For the mail tab, the original was black with a green ring, and the ATT one was dark blue with a lighter blue ring. I cut the light blue ring and pasted it onto the original black slider, which I figure is closer to what you'd want. That one's attached. After loading it in to test it, I quite like it. I don't use the mail tab, though, so it's a shame I won't be seeing it anymore.
Not really 100% sure where the camera bits are yet. Camera is a bit deeper into the file structure than Sense. Graphics may be rolled up into a dll. Digging into the dll files to make other, deeper OS-level stuff blue is the next step, after I get the Sense changes all hammered out.
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Would be awesome for sure!
Highest awesomeness would be achieved by a "green to blue" cab and additional "black to blue" cabs .
If you want any help with doing this just let me know! (like opening a section of the manila files in that program and sort them into those 2 categories)
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Yeah, that's kinda what I was thinking. One main cab to smash out the green, and then bits&pieces cabs to swap selected blue parts in for the original black bits.
I've already got all of the original blue bits in various folders that I've been screwing with, so there's really not any need for you to sort 'em for me. The only reason I hadn't sorted them in to cabs already is half distraction and half not really being sure that anyone really wants these. There's really not a lot of hits on the original files and not really a lot of activity in this thread. I might need to move it to the main WinMo themes&apps area...
Note: Unzip attached files and copy into \Windows folder to make changes. Back up the files that are already there in case you want to change back.
Jackos said:
There is a reason why a lot of PDA manufacturers use only 10% increment battery meters: You cannot measure battery capacity so precisely. There is no sense in using 1% increment imho.
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I couldn't agree more!
Although it would make sense for, hypothetically speaking, 57% to be read as 60, and 53 to be read as 50. I'm sure it works that way?
In the threads for the battery thing, for the rhodium at least, the 10% indicators always round up until it gets down to 5% battery life, so 91%-100% displays as 100% and so on. However, that may only be with the carrier batt % driver, and may round more accurately with the 1% drivers. Dunno for certain on that. All I do know is that changing to a percentage-less blue battery indicator is both aesthetically pleasing and more than functional enough for regular use.
wow! this is fantastic!
you think you'll be able to do one more in "cyan"?
it'll be perfect with my screens
I appreciate the enthusiasm, but these were lifted directly from the AT&T rom, not created from scratch by me. I do not have the skills to color in anything like this.
Besides, I much prefer this color blue to cyan.
Thanks for this. I'll probably set this up on my Black and Blue grill theme. I've been trying to change all of the green back to blue, but haven't gotten everything. Good work.
I'm pretty new to the whole putting new things on / modifying my phone so typically it went wrong the first time round...
On the advice of a website I installed a 'cool' battery monitor onto my HTC HD Mini by downloading 'VistaHide Battery Gauge' and adding the .exe file into the startup. Problem is, it's not so cool.
The phone won't allow me to delete the file from the startup menu, so what I want to know is how do you get rid of it? I've seen programs on the web you can download, but you have to pay, which seems a bit much.
Any help would be appreciated, it looks awful. Also, can anyone recommend a real 'cool' battery gauge to replace this one?
Mclassh said:
I'm pretty new to the whole putting new things on / modifying my phone so typically it went wrong the first time round...
On the advice of a website I installed a 'cool' battery monitor onto my HTC HD Mini by downloading 'VistaHide Battery Gauge' and adding the .exe file into the startup. Problem is, it's not so cool.
The phone won't allow me to delete the file from the startup menu, so what I want to know is how do you get rid of it? I've seen programs on the web you can download, but you have to pay, which seems a bit much.
Any help would be appreciated, it looks awful. Also, can anyone recommend a real 'cool' battery gauge to replace this one?
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In file explorer go to windows>startup and then delete the shortcut to the unwanted app
ps. make sure you select show all files in file explorer menu
Mclassh said:
I'm pretty new to the whole putting new things on / modifying my phone so typically it went wrong the first time round...
On the advice of a website I installed a 'cool' battery monitor onto my HTC HD Mini by downloading 'VistaHide Battery Gauge' and adding the .exe file into the startup. Problem is, it's not so cool.
The phone won't allow me to delete the file from the startup menu, so what I want to know is how do you get rid of it? I've seen programs on the web you can download, but you have to pay, which seems a bit much.
Any help would be appreciated, it looks awful. Also, can anyone recommend a real 'cool' battery gauge to replace this one?
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Try to reinstall the same file and you'll see that there more to that program is restarted, so I always do when I can not uninstall programs.
And the only solution.
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