How to get battery percentage in 3.0?

[mrat93]

I installed 3.0 on both mine and my father's iPhone. I previously was jailbroken and had numeric battery. Mine automatically had the percentage when I installed it. My father's, however did not. Does anybody know what the deal is with this?

[racers]

it needs to be jail broken to show the %

[nfl46]

Its a feature for 3.0 software, but is hidden for the 3G users, and accessible for 3GS users. For it to work on the 3G iPhone, you will have to jailbreak it, and change some of the files around so you can have the option to turn it off/on in the settings of your iPhone.

[mrat93]

I didn't jailbreak 3.0 though. It's in a totally different format than it was on 2.2.1

[charltonx]

Originally Posted by nfl46

Its a feature for 3.0 software, but is hidden for the 3G users, and accessible for 3GS users. For it to work on the 3G iPhone, you will have to jailbreak it, and change some of the files around so you can have the option to turn it off/on in the settings of your iPhone.

I didn't realise this, where did you hear that, I thought the percentage was purely down to files being left over from jailbreaking.

[iParis]

Often when users go from jailbroken with battery percentage to not jailbroken, the batty percentage stay for some reason, which is why I think you have it.
I don't think it will be available until the official release of 3.0, if that's a new feature at all.

[RKilbane20]

I thought 3GS only had the battery meter standard unless you jailbreak you 3g

[iParis]

Originally Posted by RKilbane20

I thought 3GS only had the battery meter standard unless you jailbreak you 3g

Where did you hear that?

[gibbz]

Originally Posted by charltonx

I didn't realise this, where did you hear that, I thought the percentage was purely down to files being left over from jailbreaking.

Originally Posted by iParis

Where did you hear that?

Straight from the horse's mouth.

The battery icon in the upper-right corner shows the battery level or charging status. You can also display the percentage of the battery charge (iPhone 3G S only).

[iParis]

Originally Posted by gibbz

Straight from the horse's mouth.

Ah. Thanks.
That's pretty strange. I expect this to be the third generation iPod touch then.

[redman042]

Various threads are filled with posts about how to get the % meter, and even some outrage that it doesn't work. Is it really that big of a deal?? The battery bar always tells me what I need to know.

[racers]

Originally Posted by redman042

Various threads are filled with posts about how to get the % meter, and even some outrage that it doesn't work. Is it really that big of a deal?? The battery bar always tells me what I need to know.

Exactly, I don't understand why it is so important to some people

[Telp]

Originally Posted by racers

Exactly, I don't understand why it is so important to some people

It's just really useful to be able to know exactly what is left on the battery. I have it on my laptops too. You can't always tell just from the picture what is left. Thats why i downloaded Free Memory. Purely for the battery % indicator.

[mrat93]

Originally Posted by racers

Exactly, I don't understand why it is so important to some people

You'd be surprised at how inaccurate the meter is. I remember once I compared it to the percentage. The percentage was in the low 40's. the meter looked about 2/3 full.

[rburly]

Originally Posted by Telp

Thats why i downloaded Free Memory. Purely for the battery % indicator.

As did I. Knowing the percentage with a numeric value is nice.

Plus, Free Memory allows you to free memory when it falls below 20%.

[uberamd]

Originally Posted by mrat93

You'd be surprised at how inaccurate the meter is. I remember once I compared it to the percentage. The percentage was in the low 40's. the meter looked about 2/3 full.

Thats strange, since the graphic that is displayed is calculated from the same numbers as the percentage.

[mrat93]

Originally Posted by uberamd

Thats strange, since the graphic that is displayed is calculated from the same numbers as the percentage.

There's only a few battery icons. The meter doesn't get smeller pixel-by-pixel.

[Opie]

Whats this little phone next to at&t?

[iPhone Savvy]

Originally Posted by Opie

Whats this little phone next to at&t?

Call forwarding is on.

[Saladinos]

Want this too. It should be on the 3G.

[iParis]

Originally Posted by BeSe7enTeen

yea

Yeah? Yeah?! That's all you have to say? You aren't even quoting anyone. Waste of a post...

[redman042]

Originally Posted by mrat93

You'd be surprised at how inaccurate the meter is. I remember once I compared it to the percentage. The percentage was in the low 40's. the meter looked about 2/3 full.

I'm not sure why the discrepancy, but I bet once you get the % meter you'll find it's inaccurate as well. In other words, it will drop very slowly for a while then take a big "jump" down, or maybe even reverse and go up sometimes. I see this on laptops. The problem is that measuring remaining battery life is an inexact science to begin with. So if you're tying to get a better sense of how many minutes or hours you have left, you'll be disappointed.