Battery Meter Question

[Wboyt92]

This is more of a personal pet peeve rather than a major problem, but I was wondering if anyone else experiences this same scenario. After unplugging my Droid 2 in the morning, the meter will be full but about an hour later will seem to have already lost 10% without any use. This did not happen on my D1. Then throughout the day this same battery loss does not occur as usually at night I am still left with about 50-60% with use.

 

[LtKen]

Mine does the same thing. My guess is it's just an ism of how the battery is measured and reported.

Personally, I'd rather have 95% and be reported as 90%, than have 91% and have it reported as 100%. Maybe a dev can provide better insight.

 

[Wboyt92]

Yeah, it's just weird that it would lose 10% in the first hour but then only 40% in the next 12.

 

[spaz33g]

Mine does the same thing. My guess is it's just an ism of how the battery is measured and reported.

Personally, I'd rather have 95% and be reported as 90%, than have 91% and have it reported as 100%. Maybe a dev can provide better insight.

Nail on head

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[spaz33g]

Its not losing 10%, its probably losing in the neighborhood of 5% ish but because it is reported in 10% incriments it looks like 10%

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[252chevyboyz]

I saw this thread and didn't want to create a new one but I have a quick question. How can you change the battery meter on the status bar?

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[random190user44]

You can't change it as far as im aware. it has to stay there. You can however get a free battery meter from the market, you'll just have two battery meters on your notification bar. I bought one that shows me the percentage number within the battery icon. Its far more useful than the default battery icon.

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[spaz33g]

You can change your battery meter with a theme or just by using metamorph.

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[252chevyboyz]

Pretty sure I got to be rooted to use custom themes and do I have to be rooted to use metamorph?

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[spaz33g]

Yep and yep

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[252chevyboyz]

Looks like imma have to start reading up on the root process but thank you for the quick response and the help spazz

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[spaz33g]

Anytime

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