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Default [Q] New battery driver?

I was talking to a friend of mine about the Atrix's battery meter being only 10% increments, and he told me the Rhodium originally had something similar, until the battery driver was replaced.

Just curious, is the same possible here?
 
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Please post questions such as this in the general forum.
 
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Please post questions such as this in the general forum.
You could also point him to the discussion about this. This has been brought up and is not possible. Hardware limitation.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=965682
 
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Bah, I was hoping that a hardware limitation wouldn't be the case.

I saw that the voltage was available through /sys, would it be possible to create a more accurate meter through that?
 
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Use "Battery Left Widget" (Avail on the Market) and once trained it will give you a fairly accurate percentage of battery life left.
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Circle Battery Widget also seems to give an accurate readout.
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Seeing the same thing here...Seems like circle battery shows 1% increments in line with the 10% increments in the battery manager.

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http://i.imgur.com/5ktRkl.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/zhPBLl.jpg

 
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