General question regarding battery meter

[Laskyy]

When a battery hits 90%, is it actually at 90% or is it 99% or even 95%? Because I was lightly using my phone for a span of about 20 minutes and it dropped to 90% and I was wondering if it actually 90% exactly. Thoughts?

 

[TimmyB]

You could download a battery-meter widget that shows values down to single percents (e.g., 93%), then see what the stock battery meter says at that point.

 

[916x10]

When a battery hits 90%, is it actually at 90% or is it 99% or even 95%? Because I was lightly using my phone for a span of about 20 minutes and it dropped to 90% and I was wondering if it actually 90% exactly. Thoughts?

The stock battery shows in increments of 10% and shows something like this

100-95 = 100%
94-85 = 90%
84-75 = 80%

and so on and so forth

 

[ISS2]

You could download a battery-meter widget that shows values down to single percents (e.g., 93%), then see what the stock battery meter says at that point.

Do you know of any widgets that have single digit increments for our A2?

 

[TimmyB]

Do you know of any widgets that have single digit increments for our A2?

No, but I believe they exist, because in one of the other threads (don't remember which forum) there was a user who stated that he was using one, because he was a little more concerned about this. I didn't subscribe to that one as I am ecstatic with the battery life that i have been getting in my first 6 weeks with this phone.

Sorry that I can't name it specifically, but if you don't find it, I will try to find what he was using when I get some time tonight.

 

[omeshb37]

Do you know of any widgets that have single digit increments for our A2?

The Circle Battery Widget show battery percentage on 1% increments. It's available on the Android Market for free

 

[ISS2]

The Circle Battery Widget show battery percentage on 1% increments. It's available on the Android Market for free

Perfect. Thank you kindly. I wish I change the notification bar percentage to single digits as well...oh well.

 

[Atrixed2]

You can try this one
https://market.android.com/details?...sMSwyLDEsImNoLmJsaW5rZW5saWdodHMuYmF0dGVyeSJd

 

[Laskyy]

I took my phone off the charger the second it said one hundred. I used it for literally five minutes (I checked the times) and I didn't even use the internet, it went down to 90%. Explanation?

 

[TimmyB]

I took my phone off the charger the second it said one hundred. I used it for literally five minutes (I checked the times) and I didn't even use the internet, it went down to 90%. Explanation?

I am clearly no expert, but most everything I've read says you should leave it charging for 2 to 3 hours after it says that. Personally, I don't care what my phone says at that point; it's the bottom of the scale I am concerned with, and (so far) I haven't gotten a reading below 40% on my busiest day!

 

[916x10]

I took my phone off the charger the second it said one hundred. I used it for literally five minutes (I checked the times) and I didn't even use the internet, it went down to 90%. Explanation?

That's because of how the battery displays capacity....it will show 100% capacity once the charges exceeds 95%, so if you were to unplug it as soon as it showed 100% it really wasn't fully charged and would only need to drop to 94% in order to then show 90% capacity. This is another instance where the circle battery widget comes in handy, it shows capacity in 1% increments so you can see exactly when you battery reaches full charge.

 

[joshua.worth]

I am clearly no expert, but most everything I've read says you should leave it charging for 2 to 3 hours after it says that. Personally, I don't care what my phone says at that point; it's the bottom of the scale I am concerned with, and (so far) I haven't gotten a reading below 40% on my busiest day!

This device by far has the best battery life I've seen on an Android Smartphone I'm am simply Astonished!

I currently have 7 different Android devices all Newish and had 10 others in 2011 this one is way underrated.

 

[TimmyB]

This device by far has the best battery life I've seen on an Android Smartphone I'm am simply Astonished!

I currently have 7 different Android devices all Newish and had 10 others in 2011 this one is way underrated.

I simply could not be happier with this phone. It does everything I want quite well, and I have zero desire to use anything else. I don't even see myself switching to ICS, when (if) it comes!

 

[joshua.worth]

I could do without the Blur interface and definitely gonna throw ICS on when and if it comes, that's if I still have the device. I mean yeah its nice but everything has a price. Lol I have two of these right now one for sale.

Sent from my Nexus S