Batteries Indicator Free : https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.batteriesfree
Batteries Indicator Pro : https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.batteries
I’m having a problem with purchasing, downloading, or installing the app.
Why does the app ask for the permissions that it does?
How does Batteries App work? / How does it know what percentage the battery is at?
Will using Batteries App affect my battery life?
Your app only displays the charge with a 10% resolution. Please fix this.
Batteries App is inaccurate or jumps by several percent.
Batteries App seems to slow my phone down.
The indicator disappears from the status bar.
Can I have just the icon without the notification? / Can I have just the notification without the icon?
Can you make your app replace the stock battery icon?
Can you add more color options for the icon? / Can you make the icon look different when the battery is charging? / Why can’t I have my icon turn red above 30% or amber above 50%?
Please allow the app to be installed to SD card for Android 2.2+.
I’m having a problem with purchasing, downloading, or installing the app.
If you are having problems with purchasing, downloading, or installing the app, please see Google’s support page. I can only help with troubleshooting the app itself.
Why does the app ask for the permissions that it does?
That’s a very good question, one that I think every developer should explicitly address. One thing to keep in mind is that permissions are all-or-nothing and happen at install time: if some optional feature requires a permission in order to work, I need the app to request it at install time. By explaining here exactly why the app requests its permissions and how it uses them, and of course by sharing the source code publicly, I hope to make it an easy decision to grant the permissions and install the app.
WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE (“modify/delete SD card contents”)
This is so that the log viewer can export the logs to CSV on the SD card. Nothing else is ever written to storage, so if you don’t use the optional log feature, or if you never export the logs to CSV, then the app will never touch the SD card.
WAKE_LOCK (“prevent phone from sleeping”)
This is necessary for the lock screen functionality to work properly. It won’t be used at all if you don’t have the app set to automatically disable and reenable the lock screen. If you do have that turned on, then the wake lock is released immediately after acquisition. It’s just a work-around to make sure the the lock screen is reenabled properly.
RECEIVE_BOOT_COMPLETED (“automatically start at boot”)
This is so the app can optionally start itself on device startup (which most users seem to want.)
DISABLE_KEYGUARD (“disable keylock”)
This is for the optional lock screen functionality.
VIBRATE (“control vibrator”)
This if for the optional alarms, so that they can optionally vibrate when they are triggered.
ACCESS_WIFI_STATE and INTERNET_ACCESS in Free Batteries Indicate for displaying banner Ads.
How does Batteries App work? / How does it know what percentage the battery is at?
The Android system has a mechanism where you can register your app to be notified when the battery status changes. So Batteries App has a background service that is technically always running but is essentially always sleeping and using basically no system resources (because it doesn’t do any polling — it just sleeps and waits to be notified by the OS when something changes), then when the battery charge (or plugged-in status) changes, the system wakes it up and tells it what the new battery charge (and status) is. Then it takes just a few milliseconds to change its icon to reflect the current charge (and status) and goes back to sleep.
Will using Batteries App affect my battery life?
No. Because Batteries App doesn’t do any polling, it is virtually always asleep, not using any CPU (and very little RAM). When the battery indicates to the system that its charge or state has changed, the system then wakes Batteries App which quickly updates itself and goes back to sleep.
Because of this, Batteries App will have no measurable or perceptible effect on battery life.
Your app only displays the charge with a 10% resolution. Please fix this.
Batteries App displays exactly what the system reports to it. The (original) Motorola DROID, the Motorola Droid X, the Motorola Droid 2, and the Samsung Moment are known to only report their charge at 10% intervals. This is dumb but not my fault. I’ve heard from one user that the Motorola i1 actually only reports at 100%, 65%, and 35%. That’s terrible, but again, there’s nothing I can do about it if that’s how Motorola designed their device. If you have one of these crippled devices, and you find it bothersome, I think it might be helpful to let your carrier and/or device manufacturer know how you feel. Motorola in particular is building a bad reputation in this regard, so it would be good for them to know that people care about the issue.
Batteries App is inaccurate or jumps by several percent.
If it always jumps by exactly 10%, please see the previous question.
Using Batteries App in a supported software environment, you may sometimes see the indicator jump by 2 or 3 percent during heavy multitasking on older phones. This is a design feature of Android, and it’s probably exactly what you want. Batteries App uses very little RAM, but it does use some. If you are heavily multitasking on an older device (with little RAM), Android will temporarily kill background services (including Battery Indicator’s) to reclaim whatever little bit of RAM it can find. Once things settle down, it will restart the Batteries App background service, which will then update the icon to the current level, which may be a few percent away.
The other thing that can cause this type of behavior, however, is using it in an unsupported software environment:
Third-Party ROMs
These often work perfectly fine with Batteries App but they sometimes fail miserably when it comes time to restart background services. They can also by overzealous about killing them off.
“Task Killer” style apps
These apps cause way more problems than they solve and have a tendency totally mess up any apps that legitimately run background services, as Batteries App does. Needless to say, if you’re running an app that constantly kills off Batteries App there’s nothing I can do to make Batteries App work in such an environment.
Batteries App seems to slow my phone down.
The only time I’ve ever heard of anything like that is when people use a “task killer” type of app. Those apps really wreak havoc on apps like mine that use a background service; I recommend uninstalling any apps like that that you might have. Some people have gotten things to work by telling the task killer to “ignore” my app, but most haven’t been able to get things to work until they uninstalled the task killer.
The indicator disappears from the status bar.
You’re using some kind of “task killer” app, which is killing Batteries Indicator. See the previous two questions.
Can I have just the icon without the notification? / Can I have just the notification without the icon?
Unfortunately, that’s not possible at this time. In all current versions of Android, the notification icon and the actual notification (in the pull-down menu) are tied together. If you try to set a notification without an icon, the notification doesn’t show up, and the only way to get an icon in the status bar is to set a notification. If a future version of Android allows it, I will definitely add an option to allow people to customize things in this way.
On newer devices (Jellybean / Android 4.1+), the Pro version allows you to hide the status bar icon while leaving the notification in the tray by setting the notification priority to “Minimum”.
You can also now hide both the status bar icon and notification together in both the free and Pro versions be selecting “Hide notification” from the menu. This is primarily intended for users who prefer to use the widget.
There’s still no way to have the status bar icon but not the notification in the tray.
Can you make your app replace the stock battery icon?
Unfortunately, that’s not possible at this time. If a future version of Android allows it, I will definitely do so.
Can you add more color options for the icon? / Can you make the icon look different when the battery is charging? / Why can’t I have my icon turn red above 30% or amber above 50%?
The way Android currently implements notifications is that any icons you want to put in the status bar must be included in the app. You can generate images on the fly in an Android application, and you can use these images in most parts of your application, but you cannot use generated images in the status bar.
What this means for Batteries App is that I can’t make the icon as customizable as I would like to. Since I need to include both high and medium resolution sets of images for every option (grayscale, red, amber, and green), the app is already over 2 megabyte in size. While it would be easy to add more icons with different colors and styles, or add a lightning bolt to indicate charging, for example, this quickly increases the size of the package. (A bigger package takes up storage space on people’s phones and — even worse — uses up RAM that is generally in short supply.)
Hopefully a future version of Android will allow developers to use dynamically-generated images in the status bar. If that happens, then I will be able to make the icon for Batteries App much more configurable without having to worry about the package size. In the mean time, I’ll continue to do my best to balance usefulness and configurability on the one hand and keeping the app very lightweight on the other.
Please allow the app to be installed to SD card for Android 2.2+.
I hear you. However, Google is very clear that apps such as Batteries App should not allow this1. If I did this, and you moved Batteries App to your SD card, then whenever you unmounted the card from your phone (by plugging your phone into your computer to copy files to/from your phone, for example), Batteries App would be closed and would not be restarted until you did so manually.
Even if you’re sure that you almost never mount your phone as a USB mass storage device and/or that you don’t mind this behavior, there’s no doubt that enabling it would confuse many of my users and this in turn would cause a huge headache for me. Batteries App simply isn’t one of the apps where this should be enabled.
[1] http://developer.android.com/guide/appendix/install-location.html#ShouldNot
Credit to Darshan
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