Battery Left

[jbsangel]

Not sure i'm understanding you, but you can get to that screen pretty quickly.

From the homescreen go to Settings>>About Phone>>Battery Use

Are you saying you just want this displayed automatically when clicking the Battery Left Widget?

So, there are 2 "links" or buttons I would like to see. One would launch "Settings>>About Phone>>Battery Use" that you noted.

The other button would launch the screen I described in the post. Spare Parts, Better Cut, and Battery Status are 3 apps that can launch the screen I'm talking about. BetterCut lists the link as "Settings - PowerUsageSummary" and basically it is a summary that the phone provides, but the user can't go through the settings menu to get to it like they can for the battery use.

Right now I used better cut to put shortcuts to the Battery Use you mention and the power use I'm talking about, but I was just saying it would be helpful to have buttons on the status screen of battery left to quickly launch them. When i check my battery life left, I usually also want to know how long my phone has been up, how long i've been running on battery, and quickly be able to link to see what apps have been using what % of the battery and basically how long my phone has been running, sleeping, using BT, wifi, etc.

 

[preinvent]

As for the battery usage, I'm talking about the screen that shows the actual device usage: % running, %screen on, % BT on, %wifi On, %wifi running, and has different choices you can select to see, among other things, partial wake usage. This is internal to the phone, but there is no link in the settings to get to it. Apps like spare parts and better cut provide links to see the screen, and the battery status widget app also links to this screen. This screen is very useful for gauging usage..

Hi,

Any chance you could post some screenshots of this page? I don't see anything on Battery Status but I do see a few options on Spare Parts. I'm too tight to pay for Better Cut to see what's on there

 

[jbsangel]

Hi,

Any chance you could post some screenshots of this page? I don't see anything on Battery Status but I do see a few options on Spare Parts. I'm too tight to pay for Better Cut to see what's on there

I'm not rooted, don't think I can do I can do screen shot w/o being rooted. Let me see if I can find something on the web, otherwise, need to find a camera to take a photo.

On the screen shot for spare parts, its the screen that would show when launching "battery history."

ETA: can't find a decent camera here, i'll post some pics of the screen tonight when I get home.

 

[naman919]

Not sure i'm understanding you, but you can get to that screen pretty quickly.

From the homescreen go to Settings>>About Phone>>Battery Use

Are you saying you just want this displayed automatically when clicking the Battery Left Widget?

The other button would launch the screen I described in the post. Spare Parts, Better Cut, and Battery Status are 3 apps that can launch the screen I'm talking about. BetterCut lists the link as "Settings - PowerUsageSummary" and basically it is a summary that the phone provides, but the user can't go through the settings menu to get to it like they can for the battery use.

Where is this in Better Cut? I'm rooted and can post screenshots of the Battery Status (for others' reference) and this one too. I don't see what you mean in the Better Cut Shortcuts list.

Any chance you could post some screenshots of this page? I don't see anything on Battery Status but I do see a few options on Spare Parts. I'm too tight to pay for Better Cut to see what's on there

I will in a sec. Need answer above.

 

[jbsangel]

Where is this in Better Cut? I'm rooted and can post screenshots of the Battery Status (for others' reference) and this one too. I don't see what you mean in the Better Cut Shortcuts list.

Thanks.

In BetterCut if you create a new short cut and choose 'activity' and wait for the screen to load, you can scroll down to 'Battery History' and it will make the short cut to the menu i'm talking about.

I see i posted the wrong thing before. It is 'Battery History' not 'Battery Use.'

In BatteryStatus you just click the percent sign on the widget and it gives you the battery details and has 3 buttons to launch battery use, battery history, and usage statistics, although I don't find usage statistics all that useful for battery matters. What I'm talking about for the battery left widget is something like how BatteryStatus does it, where the user can click the widget and see the details already given, with the uptime and unplugged time also provided and 2 buttons to launch the battery history and battery use screens.

 

[naman919]

Battery Screens

Here are two examples of screens available within the OS to show different Battery Usage polls:

From Homescreen Settings>>About Phone>>Battery Status:



From Better Cut here is a shortcut created. follow instructions above this post to see how to access this menu. It is NOT accessible through the normal OS settings.

Here are the various usage polls you can view in this menu:



This is an example of the Other Usage poll option:



I've never seen the second set of options before. Good call on that jbsangel!

EDIT: trying to create thumbnails that will click for full size but imageshack is being stubborn. sorry for the huge pics.

 

[preinvent]

naman919: Thanks so much, those are the apps I've just found hidden in the depths of the SDK!

I've added buttons on the main app to launch both. Will update on The Market later today.

Thanks for your help guys.

 

[naman919]

glad to help!

 

[jbsangel]

Score! Saves me 2 icons on my homescreen now! Thanks naman919 and preinvent

 

[naman919]

Score! Saves me 2 icons on my homescreen now! Thanks naman919 and preinvent

a collective pat on the shoulder gentlemen. Looks good. Love the new setup.

Preinvent, any thoughts on a vertical widget orientation?

Also, what about having the battery widget drain from left to right like the one in the notification bar? I'm slow, so sometimes i have to think twice about it b/c they go different directions.

Great work! where's your donate button?

 

[jbsangel]

Great work! where's your donate button?

Agreed. I'd like to donate, PM me a paypal address and I'll send a few green ones over.

 

[Big Cam]

Despite my setting everything in the menu including colors like Flomaster (above), the icon still shows a half-green battery on the home screen, with 18:12 always displayed, and never changing to reflect the stats. So I have to click and get the stats everytime. I also changed the menu settings for the current status to the time, and it stays the same, and doesn't change to the time my battery will die, or maybe it's set to that by default, don't know, so my current status reads 8:54, whatever that means. Any suggestions?

Later.....
Ok, I figured it out! I needed to reinstall the widget on my home screen, and it reflected my new setting. My status reflected the time left, so all problems solved!!!!

Just for future referance you had the actual application on your home screen, not the widget, if you lookin your app drawer, you'll see the icon with 18:12 and half green, it's the app icon.

I know you figured it out, but this was just an FYI for future users.

 

[amjacobs1]

Score! Saves me 2 icons on my homescreen now! Thanks naman919 and preinvent

I'm a bit dense. Which 2 apps would go away? If I have similar ones to you, then I would be for, rather than against, adding that functionality. In addition, I agree with a small donation based on the amount of work you are putting into this and how much the customer's concerns are being implemented. If you set up a paypal account, I could fork over a small donation.

 

[jbsangel]

I'm a bit dense. Which 2 apps would go away? If I have similar ones to you, then I would be for, rather than against, adding that functionality.

For me, it clears up 2 icon spaces I was using that were shortcuts to the 2 screens posted by naman919. Neither of those are apps, they are just usage summaries available in the SDK. One is not accessible through the settings menu, and the other is available in settings, but it is like 3 taps deep so I had a shortcut on the homescreen.

At one point, to get this functionality I actually had to use 3 icon spaces. I had a 2x2 battery widget that launched the battery usage screen when tapped, and then I had the shortcut to other, hidden screen.

I was able to condense that to 2 spaces with the Battery Status widget (or just shortcuts made with BetterCut) and now thanks to these additions to battery left, i can just use the Battery Left widget in either the 2x1 or 1x1 factor and everything battery related is all contained.

I don't think you will find any program overlap or redundancy by preinvent's additions.

 

[MikeZ]

I have a few questions about battery left.

I have had it run for about 4 days now. almost full drain, full charge and on and on and on.

71% accuracy -
Battery percent -
Accurate percent -


Battery percent is pretty easy to understand.
what's the difference between the accuracy and accurate percent?
there seems to be large gap between the two.

overall the battery percent seems to be pretty accurate with what's actually left.
I just don't know what the other values really mean. i'd like to think i do but i don't