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Battery Status : % of battery charge with live tile on Windows Phone

Saijo George — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 00:19:05 +0000

Battery Status is a homebrew app released by singularity0821 on xda-dev that allows unlocked Windows Phone users to pin a live tile on the home screen which shows the percentage of charge left in the battery along with other cool stuff. We take a look at verison 4.0 that also adds some other cool stuff like battery voltage and allows users to check the various process running in the background.

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Nokia planning updates for better battery life on the Lumia 800

Siddhartha Kumar — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 02:25:19 +0000

Nokia Lumia 800

It seems like not everyone is too happy with the Nokia Lumi 800′s battery life. While we thought that a 1450 mAh should be sufficient enough to drive power to the device for atleast a day, it seems not. In good news is that feedback has now prompted Nokia to plan for a couple of updates targeted at curbing excessive power consumption. (more…)

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SpoonCharge – Fullscreen Battery Monitor

. Saijo — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 15:37:27 +0000

SpoonCharge

SpoonCharge is a small windows mobile software which displays the current battery information in large text. The developer ( DotNetCoder from xda-developers ) wrote this app coz he wanted to see from a distance what the charge level was, and how fast the battery was charging.

The current version assumes:
<100ma = Trickle charge (battery almost charged)
<200ma = Slow charge (50% or greater charged)
<500ma = Medium charge (full speed USB charge)
>500ma = Fast charge (dedicated AC adapter)

The color of the text also changes depending on levels, and temperature. This has only been tested on a Diamond2, but should work on most Windows Mobile 5+ phones.

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BattLineSvc – Battery Meter for windows mobile

. Saijo — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 08:56:14 +0000

BattLineSvc

You’ve seen these before, the little green line at the top of the screen that indicates the current battery level. This app is really nothing new or revolutionary. The main difference of BattLineSvc is that it’s a true Windows Mobile service, so it does NOT use one of the precious few 32 slots available for processes. This app has been tested on Windows Mobile 5, 6, 6.1, and 6.5, but NOT 6.5.3.( if you do plz let us know ) There’s no configuration app yet, so you have to edit the registry if you don’t like the default settings.

Current features
- Shows a nice bar along the top of your screen to indicate battery status.
- Color changes based on ‘warning’ and ‘critical’ battery levels (configurable).
- Immediately correctly resizes when the screen orientiation changes.
- The battery level is updated at 20 second intervals and also when the device is awakes from sleep.
- Can show a bar at the bottom of the battery bar (if you want it).
- Can be offset from the left, if you have a fancy Windows Logo icon.
- Height of the bar can be changed.
- VERY low resources used — runs as a TRUE service and uses as close as 0% CPU as is possible by an app like this. So it’s good for even older snail devices. :-D
- AppToDate support!

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WMMiniBattery 1.3 – battery status bar for Windows Mobile

. Saijo — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 12:32:52 +0000

wmminibattery

WMMiniBattery is a Windows Mobile Freeware ( supports WM 2003/5/6 ) which shows the battery status at the top of the screen with a tiny (3 pixels) bar.It’s possible to change the graphics and the colors of the bar modifying the file bar.bmp (\Program Files\WMMiniBattery). Renaming the file, the previous version graphics will be used. The file is divided in 6 parts: critical, low, high, empty, charging, not ready.

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WMLongLife 0.61 – automatic 2g/3g band-switching solution for Windows Mobile

kinnikun — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 01:00:54 +0000

WMLongLife 0.61

WMLongLife, created by Chainfire, is an automatic 2G/3G band-switching solution. It will keep your device in 2G when you do not need to use 3G, and will switch to 3G automatically when you do need it. For most users, having your device in 2G uses much less battery, and thus your phone lasts longer on a single charge. 2G also usually generates less radiation than 3G. This utility is still in beta, so you may encounter some issues. Refer to developer’s thread for any problems or questions.

Main features:

* 2G/3G (auto)/3G (only) automatic band switching based on:
– Running programs and their needs
– Availability of Wi-Fi
– Availability of USB
– Roaming
* Idle data connections disconnect based on running programs (note that unlike the registry tweak this does not break simultaneous voice/data)
* Manual band switching
* Automatically disable data when roaming (including AGPS)
* Pauses applications while switching bands (so you don’t get networking errors)
* Several predefined applications supported
* Support for HTC/MSM72xx GSM devices (GSM/EDGE vs UMTS/HSDPA)
* Support for HTC/MSM75xx CDMA devices (1xRTT vs EV-DO)
* Support for various Samsung GSM devices (GSM/EDGE vs UMTS/HSDPA)

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Battery Guard – check the stats on power consumption on Windows Mobile

. Saijo — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 09:29:42 +0000

battery Guard

Battery Guard is an finger-friendly application that manage powering for each subdevices on PocketPC machine.This application should be usefull for someone who want to track what eating battery and make it under control.

Features:
set powering template for each power state of WinMo Professional device
set current power mode for each subdevice
backup/restore powering template
support user-defined friendly names of subdevices
multilanguage support (English, Polish)
skin support
AppToDate support

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Mobadi 1.9.519 beta – Mobile Battery Discharger for windows moible

Saijo George — Tue, 26 May 2009 06:48:23 +0000

Mobadi

Mobadi is a little application to discharge and monitor your internal battery. It will support only different HTC Devices and the Sony Ericsson X1i (Xperia), but Versions for non-HTC Devices are comming up soon. The downloadable Version will run on VGA and non-VGA Devices. On older devices like the Trinity, the Bettery-Percentage are 5% or 10%-Steps. So the Diagram are not so detailed like on the Touch-Versions.

Caution:
At the Update from 1.9.518 to 1.9.519 you must uninstall the older Version first. Because of an wrong Name in the old Version, it will not update automatically. For the next Updates you dont have to do this.

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Which mobile device has the best battery life?

Saijo George — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 00:10:26 +0000

Battery Test

PC Authority.com.au did a through battery test with some of the hottest mobile phones around in their quest to find the device with the longest lasting battery under similar conditions. The test conditions were as follows :

Ensure a strong HSDPA signal is selected
Make a half-hour phone call
Download a 50MB email attachment
Turn push email off (where possible)
The phone is left in standby
Check a POP3 account every 30 minutes until the battery runs flat.

And the winner was Touch HD, which has been getting positive reviews from everyone.

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WMMiniBattery 1.1 – battery bar on all screen on windows mobile

Mukku — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 22:33:37 +0000

WMMiniBattery

WMMiniBattery is a Windows Mobile freeware software which shows the battery status at the top of the screen with a tiny (3 pixels) bar. Its quite handy as it can be see on the top of the taskbar when you launch other applications, this enables you to keep tab on the amount of battery left on the device.

Updates in 1.1

Customizable bar
More information about battery
Some bug fixes

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