Battery Indicator on Notification Bar

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phishie

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Is everyone else's Stock Battery Indicator ridiculous inaccurate? I'm at 42% battery life currently (widget/spare parts) and the stock indicator shows a level around 65-75%.
 

accinfo

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Is everyone else's Stock Battery Indicator ridiculous inaccurate? I'm at 42% battery life currently (widget/spare parts) and the stock indicator shows a level around 65-75%.

it's not 'inaccurate' samsung has set it like that. but if you want to tweak it, try search around.
 

TexUs

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Is everyone else's Stock Battery Indicator ridiculous inaccurate? I'm at 42% battery life currently (widget/spare parts) and the stock indicator shows a level around 65-75%.

Yea, that's common. They don't have very many level drops.


If anyone finds an app that can overlay a % (or replace it with a %) on top of the STOCK ICON, that'd be awesome. There's some that add an additional icon but I don't want that, that's just stupid to have two battery icons...

Also if anyone finds an app that can overlay a dBm signal in place of the signal strength meters that'd be awesome, too.
 

derek4484

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Yea, that's common. They don't have very many level drops.


If anyone finds an app that can overlay a % (or replace it with a %) on top of the STOCK ICON, that'd be awesome. There's some that add an additional icon but I don't want that, that's just stupid to have two battery icons...

Also if anyone finds an app that can overlay a dBm signal in place of the signal strength meters that'd be awesome, too.

Yes, I was wanting a NEW battery gauge, one that shows the percentage, not the ridiculous stock icon thats off by a mile. Also, I'm with you I dont want two battery icons up there. I guess its harder than I think it should be to create an app that does that.
 

TexUs

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Jul 1, 2010
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I'd assume since it's the TouchWiz UI that something specific to the Captivate would have to change the icon... That's my assumption anyway, I'm not a developer.
 

spyz88

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Yes, I was wanting a NEW battery gauge, one that shows the percentage, not the ridiculous stock icon thats off by a mile. Also, I'm with you I dont want two battery icons up there. I guess its harder than I think it should be to create an app that does that.

You guys might want to try System Info Widget in the Market. Pretty good and definitely accurate.
 

alphadog00

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Jun 29, 2010
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What annoys me is that Samsung has the numerical info in the about screen, so why not just create a toggle so we can go from bar to numeric....

I think they pulled an Apple and wanted the bars to always look bigger.
 

TexUs

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Jul 1, 2010
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I installed Battery Widget (the one with over 250K downloads)... Best thing for now...
 

cliffgardner

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I noticed the same thing right away... Not sure if they thought users would miss this but its a little misleading..

Battery status widget works for me.

Sent from my Samsung Galaxy S