[APP] Battery Status (v4.6.1.1) - Telerik controls, icon sets, globalization and more

[rahulgty]

Hi
I just bought Samsung Omnia W (I8350) which have Windows 7.5 Mango OS. I do not know how to install Battery Status 4.6 or any other application on my phone. Any help in this regard will be appreciated.

Thanks

 

[Petulinek]

Hi
I just bought Samsung Omnia W (I8350) which have Windows 7.5 Mango OS. I do not know how to install Battery Status 4.6 or any other application on my phone. Any help in this regard will be appreciated.

Thanks

You must unlock your phone.

 

[Nick_Hrh]

This was one of the first apps I installed when I unlocked my phone and I love it.
However there is one thing i miss, is there anyway to add option to choose to have it update every 1% 5% 10% etc insted of using minute updates?

Thanks

 

[jayjojayson]

really great app. for me also one of first apps i had installed.
it would be great, if it's possible to integrate the statistic of "htc battery tool".
so you can see more information about the battery. for example mah(voltage) and temps of the battery. maybe we will see it in future update.

thanks for developing this app.

 

[singularity0821]

This was one of the first apps I installed when I unlocked my phone and I love it.
However there is one thing i miss, is there anyway to add option to choose to have it update every 1% 5% 10% etc insted of using minute updates?

Thanks

Sorry no, that's not possible. The only way is the time interval.

really great app. for me also one of first apps i had installed.
it would be great, if it's possible to integrate the statistic of "htc battery tool".
so you can see more information about the battery. for example mah(voltage) and temps of the battery. maybe we will see it in future update.

thanks for developing this app.

Sorry, I can't access this kind of data. Maybe in a future version of the OS.

 

[Nick_Hrh]

Sorry no, that's not possible. The only way is the time interval.

Hmm, too bad

 

[sensboston]

Hmm, too bad

Why do you think it's "too bad"? To get a correct chart, 4 example, you need a fixed timescale. singularity0821's solution isn't bad; it's the only possible solution.

 

[Nick_Hrh]

Why do you think it's "too bad"? To get a correct chart, 4 example, you need a fixed timescale. singularity0821's solution isn't bad; it's the only possible solution.

I didint mean that singularity0821's solution is bad, i was just saying too bad that you cant get battery updates per procent.
Im not a developer and i dont know how things work, its just that when i was using android and iPhone they both showed battery drops per procent, and when you say fixed time scale it`s makes more sense that you get a more accurate showing of the battery.

 

[skylineap]

This app is really cool!
I'm using HD7 with Mango. Can I download it from the marketplace now?
Thank you for your great app!

 

[Leapo]

Running into some buggy behavior here...

1. Disable history logging.
2. Close the app.
3. Some hours later I notice the tile has stopped updating.
4. Open the app, it acts like it's the first time its ever been run. All settings reset, tutorial re-runs.

Any ideas?

 

[manueleb.]

Running into some buggy behavior here...

1. Disable history logging.
2. Close the app.
3. Some hours later I notice the tile has stopped updating.
4. Open the app, it acts like it's the first time its ever been run. All settings reset, tutorial re-runs.

Any ideas?

In my phone it happens every 2/3 weeks, like first start, all settings reset... And it happens silently, if I don't open the app I don't see it.

 

[转身沧桑]

tuzki icon for it

 

[jimski]

Discovered something of a bug running on my Lumia 900. I am also running the Folders app by Jaxbot (whpFolders.xap) over at Windows Phone Hacker http://windowsphonehacker.com/articles/folders_for_windows_phone_mango_first_release-10-27-11. If I open Board Express, which is in a Favorites Folder on my Start screen, the background task for Battery Status will be disabled after 10 minutes (I have Battery Status set to record the current battery percentage every 10 minutes vs. every 30), which disables the Live Tile and stops recording battery stats for the graph.


I was able to reproduce this three times today, opening my Favorites Folder, tapping Board Express, going to XDA or WPC, and keeping the screen on for 10 or 11 minutes. Each time I backed out of BoardExpress/Favorites and checked Battery Status, the Tile was disabled. I tried opening Board Express from the Apps menu and could not recreate the problem. I also opened Board Express from my Favorites folder and then tap/held Back to bring up the multi-task view, selected the folder screen and closed it, returning to Board Express for 10+ minutes and the Battery Status background task did not turn off. This only appears to happen when Battery Status tries to run it's background task. Don't know if the same thing would happen if Battery Status were set at 30 minutes.



Note that I have been using the desktop version of Folders since it was first released and Board Express has been in my Favorites folder since then. I access Board Express several times a day and have never experienced the Battery Status app being disabled. The problem started as soon as I uninstalled the desktop version of Folders and installed the latest device version. Pinned the problem down after it happened for a third time this morning. Also note that I only have five active background tasks so that's not an issue.



I tried to recreate the same issue with other apps in my Favorites folder but couldn't. One app only ran locally and the other was a Radar app, that I assume was constantly updating, but maybe not.



I will try to recreate this issue on my Surround to determine if this is device specific. I will post this same info in the Windows Phone Hacker thread. Hope this can get figured out.


UPDATE: I was just able to recreate the exact same issue using my Surround. So this is not device specific.

UPDATE2: Here is an interesting tidbit. If the Battery Meter app is in a tombstone state, you can't launch any app from any Folder (app links in folders). Close Battery Meter app (but still running background task) and all works again. No issues with opening other apps from Start screen or Apps list.

UPDATE3: Here is an update from Jaxbot: When typing a reply, I figured out what the issue is. Both this app and Battery Meter use DLL Import to load native functions. It has nothing to do with the fact that you're using Board Express, but rather, that Folders is still running in the background, and thus the calls to register the COM are probably failing.
I'll see about switching over to my own library to see if I can clean some of this mess up.

Sorry about that, not something I predicted as an issue.

With the little bit I understand about programming, this makes some sense.

 

[jimski]

Just a quick update on my previous post. Jaxbot released a new version of Folders yesterday, V4.1, that uses a Custom Library so no more conflicts with Battery Status. Both apps are playing nice together again.

 

[kwill]

Is it possible that all background agents for other 3rd party apps could cease to function after enabling battery status for the 10 min update interval? It's the last major change I remember making on my Lumia, and now none of my pinned tiles update, down to just the unread count on my newsreader.

 

[jimski]

Is it possible that all background agents for other 3rd party apps could cease to function after enabling battery status for the 10 min update interval? It's the last major change I remember making on my Lumia, and now none of my pinned tiles update, down to just the unread count on my newsreader.

Have not experienced this and I do use the 10 minute interval. Apps that I know are updating regularly; Weather Channel, USA Today, Fox News, Network Dashboard & CleverToDo. I believe Mehdoh is also working, but I don't get too many mentions. Urban Dictionary stopped updating a few days ago, but I am almost certain this it's an app problem. it has stopped for a week or more sever times in the past.

What apps are causing you a problem. You can try toggling the background task funtion on/off from within the app. I assume you have checked Settings>Background Tasks to make sure the app(s) is still enabled. Running 8 background tasks every day, and the L900s limit of 9, I will often have an app that gets bumped off when I open an app that I don't use very often.

 

[jabtano]

I'm wondering just how much of a drain is Board Express. I've noticed that certain apps tend to suck more power than others even with the live active tiles.

 

[jimski]

I use Board Express every day ( for thee past year) and have determined that it uses as much battery as streaming video. Much more than using IE, or most other apps. I assume it has to do with some poor programming. Can't wait for a viable competitor. Oh, and I don't use the Board Express Live Tile.

 

[onesikpuppy]

This has stopped updating on my phone. It's happened before but a reboot would get it going again. This time nothing seems to work.

 

[GeekBoy]

Experiencing similar symptoms ie. live tile not updating every 30mins. Running under Ansar's NT_Tango_8773_V3_18L ROM WP7 on a LEO HTC HD2.