Hi
I just flashed CM7.2 yesterday. I noticed (well to be precise, and thats the problem, i did not) that if battery says 100% its still loading. Well this is also normal for stock rom, so i thought give it some time. but its loading like nearly forever at 100%
I also read some of the calibrating threads but dont want to ruin my batt by bumpcharging
Is this normal? Is there a notification (like the stock "Battery is fully loaded" or whatever its in english) anyway? as i type its still loading. 4hrs now
its normal. the full battery charge notification is touchwiz thing, cm rom doesnt have it.
use thirdparty battery app from market. some of them got full battery charge notification.
you can tell when the battery full when the battery charging icon goes and is replaced by a normal icon.
It will show 'full' instead of 'charged' in about phone.
This is when touchwiz displays the notification.
CJCord said:
Hi
I just flashed CM7.2 yesterday. I noticed (well to be precise, and thats the problem, i did not) that if battery says 100% its still loading. Well this is also normal for stock rom, so i thought give it some time. but its loading like nearly forever at 100%
I also read some of the calibrating threads but dont want to ruin my batt by bumpcharging
Is this normal? Is there a notification (like the stock "Battery is fully loaded" or whatever its in english) anyway? as i type its still loading. 4hrs now
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Cyanogenmod does not have battery notification. You can simply watch the icon if it show the normal battery symbol its fully charged.
IMHO that notification is pretty anoying when you charge your phone a night beside you bed ;-)
Use app- Battery HD
It's works great for me. Will give you all the necessary information.
You can also choose a setting in which the phone 'speaks' (in a robotic woman's voice) when the battery is fully charged.
Totally sweet!
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I use this. Battery Full Notification
some app just notify you when the battery is reach the 100% not when fully charged.
this app just work great.
just set and forget.
I will try the Battery Full Notification. seems to be very small app. dont want to run too much useless (well...saves me from 4 clicks) stuff in background.
But now that i know its a "feature" im calmed. thought it might be my batt
Thank you sirs and ladys for the answers
Im not used to order and tidiness in this forum, but if everything is said, a mod can close/archive/do what ever you do with answered questions.
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Good battery application to check battery status? reason i asked is because my i usually charge my phone everynight and it last from 5 am until 11pm when i charged. by 11pm it has around 30% charge.. I installed SetCPU and is not 6pm, and is asking to be charged :O, so i uninstalled setcpu, btw i had it at 1k/1k
battery status shows 50% screen
BatteryLife by Curvefish.
i second the BatteryLife app
All I was looking for was an app to give me a percentage without taking up a lot of space. BatteryIndicator fit that need just fine. It shows a tiny battery icon in the top left corner of the screen with the percentage. Give it a download and see what you think.
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BatteryLife by Curvefish.
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Been using that on all of my android phones, simply awesome. It gets the job done, light weight, and looks good. Check it out in the market, is free.
Inat said:
All I was looking for was an app to give me a percentage without taking up a lot of space. BatteryIndicator fit that need just fine. It shows a tiny battery icon in the top left corner of the screen with the percentage. Give it a download and see what you think.
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I downloaded battery indicator also but its annoying because of the notification in the middle of the night wakes me up to tell me my phone is fully charged. And then you can't even make the notification go away without unplugging the phone. If I keep it plugged in, the screen stays lit all night ....or I unplug it and by morning its lost a lot of its charge. Major flaw I think. I like it during the day but not at night. Anybody know of a similar app that will be in the notification bar up top but is not so annoying?
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I downloaded battery indicator also but its annoying because of the notification in the middle of the night wakes me up to tell me my phone is fully charged. And then you can't even make the notification go away without unplugging the phone. If I keep it plugged in, the screen stays lit all night ....or I unplug it and by morning its lost a lot of its charge. Major flaw I think. I like it during the day but not at night. Anybody know of a similar app that will be in the notification bar up top but is not so annoying?
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I've never noticed that particular issue so I contacted the author. Here's what he had to say:
Battery Indicator shows that the phone is fully charged in the same way that it shows whatever the battery status is -- there's an ongoing notification in the pull-down notification area from the status bar. It doesn't have a special notification that pops up when the phone becomes fully charged, though, so if [he is] seeing that, it is either another app, or perhaps it's a customization that [his] carrier added to the phone.
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sorry battery indicator just conflicts with the noled program. I'll post about the conflict in that thread. sorry for the confusion.
You might want to give Battery Watcher Widget a try. That's what I finally settled on after trying a dozen or so.
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BatteryLife by Curvefish.
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Best one out there imho.
tacomaguy20 said:
I downloaded battery indicator also but its annoying because of the notification in the middle of the night wakes me up to tell me my phone is fully charged. And then you can't even make the notification go away without unplugging the phone. If I keep it plugged in, the screen stays lit all night ....or I unplug it and by morning its lost a lot of its charge. Major flaw I think. I like it during the day but not at night. Anybody know of a similar app that will be in the notification bar up top but is not so annoying?
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This is a TouchWiz thing. I dont have any battery apps installed and it has done this since day 1 of getting the phone.
I have battery status and it is a very small clean app that just leaves you a small battery in your top notification bar that tells you the percent.
"Battery widget" can be found in the market...and it works perfectly for me. It shows your battery status by 1% intervals.
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I personally use battery indicator pro, I liked it enough to use the "pro" or donate version. Great lightweight app, only $0.99. Shows percentage in the top status bar and never had an issue with it, you can set custom percentage relevant to the color (green,yellow,red).
Hi,
I'm currently using JuicePlotter to see how my battery drains over time and this past night I think it drained more than it should (or maybe not).
For the ones who don't know, JuicePlotter runs in the background (of course) analyzing your battery, that too wastes battery juice of course. Thought, the app dev says on his website:
Perhaps the most important feature of JuicePlotter is that - unlike all similar apps and widgets - it's very battery friendly;
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So I'm not sure if the problem lies on JuicePlotter or not, I'll have to test it one night without it...
This is how JuicePlotter displays it's graph:
The coloured bands along the graph show your screen brightness, radio usage, charging status and battery temperature. Just scroll around to find precise information and make sense of the different colours.
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I went to bed at 4:10 with the battery at 97%. Around 13:00, it was at 89% and I didn't receive any calls/messages/mails/whatever during the night. The WiFi/3G was off all night along with the screen of course. The battery temperature remained the same too. I don't know if it makes a difference but I normally turn off Auto-Sync if the WiFi is off too.
Is it normal to lose 8% of battery juice in 9h in standby? I think it's a bit too much, but I don't know... Does the same happens to you too? What else cloud it be?
Interesting looking app. I've never noticed much of a lose overnight. Just installed the app, will fully charge and give you an update tomorrow.
Also how's the cell reception in your area? I've heard it can drain the battery a far bit if the reception is low.
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I'll have to do more testing but I think it's the app's problem... Tonight, I went to bed with 83% and it was exactly the same when I woke up...
I fully charged mine last night and turned on JuicePlotter. Still showing 100% this morning. Both in the app and on the phones battery indicator (in the notification bar). Do you know of any other apps similar to this that could be run in tandem?
Weird, Battery Graph also does the same thing...
This needs more days of testing on my part...
My battery goes from 100% - 0% in about 16hrs... doesn't matter how much I use the phone or not.
I have BatteryGraph but the results don't really mean anything to me as it just shows battery life vs time on a scale.
I'll try JuicePlotter to see if I can pin down exactly what's causing my terrible battery life.
I have a feeling it's running at full speed even when in standby but I'm not sure how to check if this is the case. Any ideas?
EDIT: Looking at BatteryGraph I've lost 15% in around 1hr... nothing unusual going on with my phone that I know about... just standard stuff running in the background. Perhaps the battery itself is simply past it's best.
CitizenLee said:
My battery goes from 100% - 0% in about 16hrs... doesn't matter how much I use the phone or not.
I have BatteryGraph but the results don't really mean anything to me as it just shows battery life vs time on a scale.
I'll try JuicePlotter to see if I can pin down exactly what's causing my terrible battery life.
I have a feeling it's running at full speed even when in standby but I'm not sure how to check if this is the case. Any ideas?
EDIT: Looking at BatteryGraph I've lost 15% in around 1hr... nothing unusual going on with my phone that I know about... just standard stuff running in the background. Perhaps the battery itself is simply past it's best.
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Wow that is terrible, try apps like Taskpanel and when you add programs to your auto kill list the program kills the programs as long as they are running in the background when the screen is off, however if you are on lets say your browser and you don't go to your homescreen the screen goes off into stand by it will not kill the app. Also try draining your battery to the point it shuts down by itself, plug it in let it charge for a bit, boot into recovery wipe battery stats start up the phone or leave it off (your choice) and let it charge fully. Are you using setcpu or OC Widget or anything? If you are using SetCPU make a profile for when screen is off and make it underclocked like 264 Mhz to 480Mhz, or with OC Widget tick the 'use different screen frequencies' (don't remember what it is called since I don't use it) and do the same; I like SetCPU better because when you turn the screen on it switches profile faster where as OC Widget takes its time however with SetCPU do not use the widget it will cause Sense to FC and I'm not sure about Vanilla.
Hope this makes sense since all my ideas are said at once.
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The way I've learned to recalibrate the battery is to let it go down to 5%, boot phone into recovery and wipe batterystats, then power off the phone. Let the phone charge until the green led is on without turning it on. Then turn on and use the phone as usual. Learned it over at modaco. Worked as a charm, and batterytime was improved. I have personally experienced strange batterybehaviour after periods with flashing a lot of roms.
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Here.
That's interesting...
Cause I've been playing with ROMs latetly, creating my own, testing hacks and stuff... And most of the time the phone is plugged and the battery is charged, during the flashing process it's using the battery and then it charges again. I also have to leave from time to time and when I get back I continue my stuff, meaning I'm charging the battery at high levels.
I'll have to try that calibrate method...
For now, for the past 2 nights, with JuicePlotter off, I've noticed the battery level did not change at all during the night. Tonight I'm going to try one more time with JuicePlotter on...
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Wow that is terrible
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Wiped battery stats at 5% last night, let the phone die and then charged whislt off until green light came on. Been keeping an eye on it all day and there has been a noticable improvement.
The phone came off charge at around 2am (so around 12hrs ago) and it has only lost 20%, which is a lot better than I was getting before.
It was probably just due to me messing about with some many ROMs and update zips lately as I tend not to have too much crap running in the background (I use OSMonitor).
I will look into setCPU but I remember trying it before with VR12 and it ended up causing some weird problems meaning I needed to do a full wipe to get everything working again.
Thanks for the help
This night, with JuicePlotter on, I only lost 1%, seems reasonable now... I don't know why that one time I lost 8% during the night. Maybe an isolated case? Something was probably running when it shouldn't, I just don't know what.
hi
i recently flashed vanillaEclair 4, and installed Handcent sms.... checked settings in handcent for sms notification both with led and trackball... but nothing worked ? how to fix this ?
for the trackball i find this link
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=6899688&postcount=439
but i am a noob so i dont know where to type it... can anyone explain step by step ?
and how to fix the led notification?
and i mess around with the phone after, flashed and full charged, after 2 hours i lost 40 procent of the battery =/ it is that bad ?
thx in advance
Why did you install VanillaEclair 4 instead of 5?
v5 is likely to have this fix automatically (and it worked when i was using it)
In relation to battery - probably normal if you're setting everything up for the first time. I would run it down as low as possible then turn it off and charge it from 0-100% (i.e. green led) then leave it charging for another hour and then boot it up. That should fix any quick drain battery problems.
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Why did you install VanillaEclair 4 instead of 5?
v5 is likely to have this fix automatically (and it worked when i was using it)
In relation to battery - probably normal if you're setting everything up for the first time. I would run it down as low as possible then turn it off and charge it from 0-100% (i.e. green led) then leave it charging for another hour and then boot it up. That should fix any quick drain battery problems.
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i tried VE5 but the battery was worst, for every 3 min it drain my battery by 1 procent... and quite many force close
heard that VE4 is the best, most stable, and fast version of vanillaneclair.
yes i did flash it yesterday and drain it out and recharge it off till today, but the battery still drain... (on ve4, have tried this on ve5 to)
with the orginal htc rom i get awsome battery....
Moved to Q&A as not development
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i tried VE5 but the battery was worst, for every 3 min it drain my battery by 1 procent... and quite many force close
heard that VE4 is the best, most stable, and fast version of vanillaneclair.
yes i did flash it yesterday and drain it out and recharge it off till today, but the battery still drain... (on ve4, have tried this on ve5 to)
with the orginal htc rom i get awsome battery....
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I haven't had any problems with VE5 aside from it breaking every time i used the "reboot" function. If you need to fix the trackball you need to set up adb (check guides on villainrom.co.uk) and the follow the instructions in the post.
It sounds like your battery needs to be fixed. ROM's typically make VERY little difference to battery life. It is most commonly an issue with usage or incorrect calibration (which my post above fixes).
how to fix the trackball fix ?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=757233
Use that.
now the trackball works with incoming calls, but now the Led notification doesnt work, it work before.....
I'm incredibly happy with Gingerbread (even though I admittedly only had Froyo for a day, REALLY good timing ), except for one small, minor, insignificant problem: the battery readings jump by 10%.
I scoured the topic on the Dev forum, and tried wiping the battery stats (with both the "Battery Calibration" app on the marketplace AND the instruction Kenneth gave using CWM Recovery) but it's still not reading right. I didn't install a battery percent mod, which I read could mess with the readings.
Does anybody have any other ideas? Like I said, everything else is working great, and if I didn't get the point across in the first paragraph, it's really not a HUGE deal or anything like that, just an annoyance.
Thanks!
Don't think it's Kenn's mod. The OTA 2.3.4 has similar battery jumping stats. Every time I reboot I get an extra 5-10% lol but it drains down quicker.
When you say they jump by % 10, do you mean it jumps up and down or that it only registers the charge loss in% 10 increments? If its the former then its a known issue where battery calibration is your best shot at fixing it. If its the latter, this is normal for the atrix. It only registers % 10 increments by default.
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I don't think we're having the same problem. The READINGS are jumping on mine, so it'll go from 100% to 90% to 80% etc. I never see anything in between. The battery seems to be lasting as long as I could expect, considering how much I've been using it. I'm having a hard time figuring out which side of the reading it's actually on, even. Like, if it's reading 90% is it 90-100 or 80-90.
Also, just to clarify, I wasn't outright blaming Kenneth's ROM for anything, as far as I know his release is stock, and just repacked so it can be installed with CWM (maybe deodexed? Or maybe that was a different thing altogether? There's been so much coming out I can't keep track). I just didn't know if it made a difference or not, so I was as specific as possible.
Thanks for your reply though! Maybe someone can shed some light for both of us
Edit: goscrewsir, I used to get single percent readings. Since it's by default, is there a setting somewhere that I'm missing? Thanks for the info!
The last person to answer is right, the 10% incrementing is normal. It shows 90% for all the values between 80 and 90...there is a mod available to show 1% increments however, which you should be able to find in the themes and apps board.
OK, I guess I didn't notice since I installed GingerBlur almost immediately, and maybe GingerBlur had a half version of that mod built in (the system read single %, but the icon was normal)?
Thanks again to everyone for the explanations!
[MOD] StatusBar Fix for 2.3.4 - 1% Battery!! - CWM (6/28) by Nottach
Thanks neotekz, I knew where to find it. Plus the one you linked to is for HKTW.
I wonder if Nottach would be kind enough to leave out the custom battery icon. He seemed to be doing a lot of single requests in that topic, haha.
So what does the battery graph look like in 2.3.4? The stock graph that shows usage, does it look chunky and not smooth? Or does it look correct?
I seem to have a problem with the battery reading. Also if I reboot the battery goes from 85% to 99% . When I hit 70% it drops to 50% immediately. Clearing battery stats doesn't work.
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Thanks neotekz, I knew where to find it. Plus the one you linked to is for HKTW.
I wonder if Nottach would be kind enough to leave out the custom battery icon. He seemed to be doing a lot of single requests in that topic, haha.
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he updated the mod when ken released 2.3.4. it works for both versions.
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so does the 2.3.4 battery graph work normally on the atrix? on other phones the new battery graph shows 1% battery, so the graph is smooth and accurate.
does the atrix 2.3.4 version of this graph work the same way? or does it only show the graph in 10% chunks?
I know we can use widgets or change the status bar one with UOT, but it seems ludicrous to imagine such a simple feature hasn't become standard. Is there some patent troll that is keeping devices from having the battery percentage in the system bar? I see no other legitimate reason.
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I know we can use widgets or change the status bar one with UOT, but it seems ludicrous to imagine such a simple feature hasn't become standard. Is there some patent troll that is keeping devices from having the battery percentage in the system bar? I see no other legitimate reason.
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That is a really good question actually. You have me wondering the same thing now. I know on my girlfriend's iPhone 4s she can set her battery display to show a percentage. I wonder if Apple has a patent on that for smart phones ...ridiculous if they do.
wellll guys....its android and not a****ing iphone
so accept it or install cyanogenmod as far as i know it supports what u want
I have an answer which you might find interesting...
I was testing a custom rom, which had a lot of users complaining and incessantly whining about "battery drain"...
But I never felt any such drain...
We were actually surprised that, users had their battery percentages "drain" from 100 to 60 in 4 hours (they used batt %), after which they charged their phone...
I, on the other hand, didn't take notice of the battery step (present in the stock icon)...
I used to charge my phone after 10 hours with around 10% batt left...
I then asked another fellow user to use stock batt icon, rather than the % icon...
And miraculously, his battery drain was minimized...(by just changing a damned icon)...same confirmed with a few others...
So we could conclude that, the battery drain was happening due to the % icon, and used to vanish/minimize when using the stock icon...
Hence, it was attributed to a placebo effect...
You thought that battery was draining because the numbers between 1 - 100 are going down...while the stock icon ignores battery movement lesser than 10%...
It isn't anything other than your mind telling you that battery is going down...
I do not know the "official" reason why it never made it to stock android...
But if you are willing, just try it out...
Without changing your daily usage and apps, spend a few days with the stock icon, and then a few days with the % icon...
The result, still might be really subjective, but well, this is what I could find...
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I have an answer which you might find interesting...
I was testing a custom rom, which had a lot of users complaining and incessantly whining about "battery drain"...
But I never felt any such drain...
We were actually surprised that, users had their battery percentages "drain" from 100 to 60 in 4 hours (they used batt %), after which they charged their phone...
I, on the other hand, didn't take notice of the battery step (present in the stock icon)...
I used to charge my phone after 10 hours with around 10% batt left...
I then asked another fellow user to use stock batt icon, rather than the % icon...
And miraculously, his battery drain was minimized...(by just changing a damned icon)...same confirmed with a few others...
So we could conclude that, the battery drain was happening due to the % icon, and used to vanish/minimize when using the stock icon...
Hence, it was attributed to a placebo effect...
You thought that battery was draining because the numbers between 1 - 100 are going down...while the stock icon ignores battery movement lesser than 10%...
It isn't anything other than your mind telling you that battery is going down...
I do not know the "official" reason why it never made it to stock android...
But if you are willing, just try it out...
Without changing your daily usage and apps, spend a few days with the stock icon, and then a few days with the % icon...
The result, still might be really subjective, but well, this is what I could find...
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Yap... some months ago eard something quiet similar to this state...
a guy postet that he installed an battery widget from the play store
after a while he had big problems because his battery was gettin empty very fast
so one other guy told him to look under settings in the battery context menu wich were his biggest battery drainers
and who could have imagined this on top was the battery widget
after he unsinstalled the widget his problems were vanished
so guys
accept that u have a battery without percentage but a battery drain in a size where u cant watch the amount of battery power percentage falling from one second to the other
so please accept it
No, I never used a batt widget...
There was option to have either % icon, or the stock one, baked into the rom itself...
So there wasn't any battery drain related to rogue apps...
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No, I never used a batt widget...
There was option to have either % icon, or the stock one, baked into the rom itself...
So there wasn't any battery drain related to rogue apps...
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i know.....i just thought i would fit to the topic
It's a standard feature in ICS to display battery percentage.
Settings > Display > Display Battery Percentage
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It's a standard feature in ICS to display battery percentage.
Settings > Display > Display Battery Percentage
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im only using cm9 my phone does not have any stock ics rom
nevertheless...if ure battery drain starts incresing after u changed to percentag view u know why
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I know we can use widgets or change the status bar one with UOT, but it seems ludicrous to imagine such a simple feature hasn't become standard. Is there some patent troll that is keeping devices from having the battery percentage in the system bar? I see no other legitimate reason.
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Take a look at this,
jiffer1991 said:
wellll guys....its android and not a****ing iphone
so accept it or install cyanogenmod as far as i know it supports what u want
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Hehe, cm's the best!
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jiffer1991 said:
im only using cm9 my phone does not have any stock ics rom
nevertheless...if ure battery drain starts incresing after u changed to percentag view u know why
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I've always displayed percentage and I get about 12-16 hours of battery life depending on how I use my phone that day
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my man its pretty simple
the people at android dont like puttin percentages and i think it would look pretty small and unreadable
Looks readable to me
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