Why no battery percentage

[kookk]

One thing I've noticed is that phones are still being released without battery percentage.

I don't understand why. I personally find it really annoying to not have one

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[brad92]

You can get a custom ROM with it or you can get a widget, such as Circle Battery Widget.

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[kookk]

Well yea I know, I'm on cm7 right now, and I know about Widgets, I just wonder why we still don't have them stock.

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[brad92]

Beats me. Motorola also does 10% increments stock which sucks...

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[Snow02]

Beats me. Motorola also does 10% increments stock which sucks...

CM74DX

It's so they can decrease the battery polling interval to increase battery life. Do you really need to know when your battery life drops 1%?

 

[brad92]

Its nice to know. That way, you have an idea how low your battery is. From 20%, to 5% sucks when you're stock.

CM74DX

 

[Snow02]

That's why you get 5% increments once you hit 20%

 

[brad92]

That's why you get 5% increments once you hit 20%

No, you get a warning at 15%, but the battery level stays at 20% unless you use a widget. Then you get to 10%. After 10%, it goes to 5% increments.

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[Snow02]

That's why you get 5% increments once you hit 20%

No, you get a warning at 15%, but the battery level stays at 20% unless you use a widget. Then you get to 10%. After 10%, it goes to 5% increments.

CM74DX

Check your about phone battery %. It does indeed say 15%. You must be talking about the battery icon.

You can mod the battery icon to reflect the actual metered %. I have a compiled xml to do so if you want it. You can drop it right in your framework-res and zip it back up.

 

[brad92]

It's not an issue for me anymore since I run CM7. I have 1% battery increments.

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[nikecar]

My DInc2 has a widget that you can choose that shows the percentage. You just have to go in the personalize menu under widgets, and choose the browse for more widgets option. its there.

 

[takeshi]

Well yea I know, I'm on cm7 right now, and I know about Widgets, I just wonder why we still don't have them stock.

I wonder why people expect their personal preference to dictate what is or isn't stock.

 

[FLE]

I got an app from the market for that and its free I used batteryminder and im happy with it.

 

[kookk]

I wonder why people expect their personal preference to dictate what is or isn't stock.

I never said I expected it to be stock, I'm just wondering why it isn't when a good number of people like to know

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