[Q] Battery app for Surface RT

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Montastic

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Hey Guys,
Is there a decent app for monitoring battery life on Surface RT? Haven't seen one in the store and would like to see how everyone monitors their battery lives.
Thanks!

 

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GoodDayToDie

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• Mar 8, 2013

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I just spend almost all my time on the desktop (where the battery icon shows)... that and I charge the tablet every other day whether it needs it or not, or daily if I used it heavily, and that works pretty well.

 

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mr_dan

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i dont really know why they didnt implement % .. how hard is that?

 

Trig0r

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Not hard largely irrelivant from a Windows POV, and lets remember that RT is just a port of normal Win8 with all the bits yuo really wanted, removed...

 

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KJ98653

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I don't understand why phones, tablets, and what not seemingly don't default to a % view. And not this circle crap. Or number within a battery icon. Give me just a number and a % behind it and I'll die a happy man.

 

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Montastic

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Android does good job of plotting the graph of battery usage. That's what I want.

I know you can always do it from command prompt (powercfg /batteryusage) but I want it just as a setting.
Should've been easy to implement. Or provide it as an app extra.

Too bad we don't have that!

 

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mr_dan

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yeah surface has many flaws.. to be honest.. its really a little weird... like and oxymoron.. they were so precise when trying to best ipads hardware.. looks and ergonomics... everything.... and then... bam, no % and no drawing in touch based Onenote... just wtf..

 

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SixSixSevenSeven

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mr_dan said:

no drawing in touch based Onenote....

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No CAPACITIVE drawing in touch based onenote. Wacom and Sony stylus's work perfectly fine in the modernui mode for onenote. Also you can fullscreen the desktop version of one-note and it looks the same while supporting touch based drawing without a stylus.

 

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kbagrows

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• Sep 10, 2013

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It's built in....

Montastic said:

Hey Guys,
Is there a decent app for monitoring battery life on Surface RT? Haven't seen one in the store and would like to see how everyone monitors their battery lives.
Thanks!

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I know this is a really old post, but just thought I'd share this link:

http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/wi...our-device-with-the-windows-8-battery-report/

Using the command prompt give you a really complete, thorough battery assessment.

 

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slyi

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I did a crude app that is countdown timer for your battery % apps.microsoft.com/windows/app/battery-level-live-tile/519ce2be-0433-4dcc-a830-5982f9934799

There no battery api currently, you have think outside the sandbox. It has an advanced option to create a scheduled task that drops the real battery percentage to the app's local storage which works on surface RT. Im crossing my fingers it does not get pulled from the store