battery percent

[smerk16717]

Just wondering if there was a way to change the little battery in the status bar to an actual percentage?

 

[boggs3010#AC]

Nope, app called circle battery will do the job.

 

[Puzzlegal]

Nope, app called circle battery will do the job.

Yup. Battery circle is free (with no ads), and you can search for it in the market under "Adrian Ulrich", the author. (too many hits if you just look for the name.)

 

[sjamie]

Yup. Battery circle is free (with no ads), and you can search for it in the market under "Adrian Ulrich", the author. (too many hits if you just look for the name.)

This app works perfectly, too! It's one of the few that will report your battery % in increments of 1 whereas most others will report it in increments of 10 due to Motorola's architecture.

 

[fivegear]

My only complaint with this app is that it is one more thing filling up my status bar. Works great otherwise.

 

[sjamie]

My only complaint with this app is that it is one more thing filling up my status bar. Works great otherwise.

Agreed. A full battery replacement would be preferred. At least this app works well!

 

[Mike77]

Same, Its nice to have it, but I would rather take up an app space on the home screen with a widget then the status bar, but better then nothing.

 

[KahneFan]

Same, Its nice to have it, but I would rather take up an app space on the home screen with a widget then the status bar, but better then nothing.

Beautiful Widgets has a battery widget. And, while I' haven't tried it, this looks like a pretty cool widget: https://market.android.com/details?id=net.hubalek.android.gaugebattwidget&feature=related_apps

 

[Mike77]

Beautiful Widgets has a battery widget. And, while I' haven't tried it, this looks like a pretty cool widget: https://market.android.com/details?id=net.hubalek.android.gaugebattwidget&feature=related_apps

They have great widgets, use a bunch of them but their battery widget picks up the Motorola one and only reads on increments of 10%.

Honestly the way this phone is with battery I am not sure I even need to see more then 10 % increments, shocking how good this phone is on battery out of the box.

Also I hope Beautiful Widgets fixes the 4g one for non HTC phones. Have the nice Beautiful toggle widgets with a big ugly Motorola 4g toggle one right next to it.

 

[smerk16717]

That's a shame that it has to be on the status bar like that. I find myself clearing that bar as fast as they pop up now. I put a patch on my old phone that changed the battery to a percent and it became something I rather depended on. I'm new to droid, is patching something like this hard to do on this system?

 

[Puzzlegal]

Huh, I like it in the status bar. Where do you want it? On one of the home pages?

 

[dschachm]

I just installed this rom (ROM)HomeBase Photon Stock v 1.0 (ext4 Lagfix) Fastest Stock Photon Blur Rom - xda-developers and the 1% battery icon is there. Good luck to all.