need help changing stock battery meter to read for extended battery!!!

Im on the Liberty rom. I actually figured out the escape key for vi, but for some reason it will not save the file(yes i changed permissions). So i downloaded ghost commander and ran it as root and its telling me the file is not editable. This shouldnt be so difficult lol. Might have to edit the file using my pc or something. Im out of ideas for editing it from my phone. Anyone know how we could maybe flash the phone with it?..

Have you been able to edit it with root explorer? I dont want to spend 4bucks on it if I dont need it. I could tell you how to change the file permissions with terminal..then you could try it.

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Originally Posted by terrets

Im on the Liberty rom. I actually figured out the escape key for vi, but for some reason it will not save the file(yes i changed permissions). So i downloaded ghost commander and ran it as root and its telling me the file is not editable. This shouldnt be so difficult lol. Might have to edit the file using my pc or something. Im out of ideas for editing it from my phone. Anyone know how we could maybe flash the phone with it?..

Have you been able to edit it with root explorer? I dont want to spend 4bucks on it if I dont need it. I could tell you how to change the file permissions with terminal..then you could try it.

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Not working at all in root explore either changed permissions in every file before I clicked it from /sys. Probably will have to do it from computer. I tried to copy and paste on sd card then edit but it said file was to large. Granted I have over 1000 songs and it is a 16gb sd card.

Tried changing it with root explorer but wouldn't save even after changing permissions the file must be loaded in the system and that might prevent the saving of the changes also the battery capacity is also present on the uevent file within the same folder my guess is that you have to change the files in the rom befor the system is started but I'm not great at this will keep poking at it see if I can acomplish something

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Sweet glade to see some action on this its been making me mad that I never really know how much battery I have left and im starting to see extended battery treads left and right so this would be a good find. Im a noob at this stuff sorta and have limited access to a computer and I wouldn't know what to do when I can get to a computer. It wasn't that bad before with my og Droid cause a reboot seemed to recalculate the battery but the D2G doesn't. If anything can someone find a way to turn off the red flash for low battery so i dont have to deal with that for hours that would be sweet. If I get a message it wont flash green cause its to busy flashing red.:icon_evil:

Thank you for starting this thread! I really hope we can figure this out, as this drives me crazy! Anyway I've read on other random forums that some custom kernels on the og droid caused the seido extended batteries to be ready correctly. However this is obviously not a solution we can peruse on the D2G at the moment. Nothing I've tried has had any luck either.

And about the blinking light. I have tried about every app I can find in the market that claims it can disable the light and nothing has worked. However, for some reason, sometimes when I pull down the notification bar and then press the power button to lock my screen, the light will stop and it will even blink the other colors when I get a notification. This does not work all the time, but it does seem to work fairly well when the phone reading first drops to ten percent and the light first comes on. I'm running fission btw, and I honestly have no idea why this would work but it seems to work for me.

have you tried editing the file via pc, then loading it in an update.zip and flashing it, if you flash it, then it may change because it is not loaded at time of flashing, thus you can overwrite it.

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have you tried editing the file via pc, then loading it in an update.zip and flashing it, if you flash it, then it may change because it is not loaded at time of flashing, thus you can overwrite it.

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I just tried changing it via pc. Vi still will not save. I tried flashing the file from my pc also and t says operation not permited even with permissions open to everyone. Cant delete the file either. I would try the zip idea but Im not sure how to go about setting the location the zip will unzip to...or is the update.zip full of file locations and what not..I venture now :)

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Im wondering if the actual file that needs to be edited is actually in a different location and wont change until u edit the right file. I tried to do some more searching but had not luck. I also found this /sys/class/leds and was thinking of deleting the red one and see if that gets rid of the red led flash when battery is dying. What do u think?

What I ended up doing was installing the Battery Left app. It's supposed to handle the extended batteries, but I have the widget set up to give me the voltage. I have an OG Droid with the Seidio extended battery and know that 4200mV is full and I'd better get to a charger if it's about 3500mV.

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Im wondering if the actual file that needs to be edited is actually in a different location and wont change until u edit the right file. I tried to do some more searching but had not luck. I also found this /sys/class/leds and was thinking of deleting the red one and see if that gets rid of the red led flash when battery is dying. What do u think?

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Eh but why would they have the file in a different location? I think that the files are locked just out...... That would probably work, if it even lets you delete it. I would change the file name instead so if you ever want the led back.

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What I ended up doing was installing the Battery Left app. It's supposed to handle the extended batteries, but I have the widget set up to give me the voltage. I have an OG Droid with the Seidio extended battery and know that 4200mV is full and I'd better get to a charger if it's about 3500mV.

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I think we all know about battery left....We want to get this done so we dont have to use it or another. And not have to deal with the low battery warning. :)

I wonder if tasker can stop the notifications...

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