Battery Percentage in 3.0?

[Advil]

I have the 16 gig 3g running 3.0 and I don't have the option to show the Battery percentage in the General > Usage menu. anyone know why? or how I can get it?

 

[harry20larry]

buy a 3G-S
One of the perks that apple left for the now premium product

 

[jmann]

It is a 3G S feature only. It would be there if you had a numeric battery enabled via jailbreak pre 3.0.

 

[D3lta]

It's an exclusive feature to the 3G S. Please do a search, this has been asked a billion times.

 

[Ntombi]

I have the 16 gig 3g running 3.0 and I don't have the option to show the Battery percentage in the General > Usage menu. anyone know why? or how I can get it?

Yes. It's because it's not a 3.0 option, it's a 3G S option.

 

[dukebound85]

It's an exclusive feature to the 3G S. Please do a search, this has been asked a billion times.

gaaawwwwwd what a stupid perk

lame they keep it only to the 3gs

would i like it? yea but hells no if ill upgrade just for that dtupid thingy

 

[Advil]

sorry i couldn't think of what exactly to search.

seems dumb to only include that in one phone.. looks like another reason to upgrade

 

[devilhunter]

It's an exclusive feature to the 3G S.

Its an official Feature of the new 3GS, but that doesn't mean that it doesn't work on the older iPhones/iTouches.


I'll quote myself on what i've written in the last battery percentage topic.

I don't know if you guys know this already, but you can enable this on 2G's and 3G's that don't show the battery percentage slider very easily if you have jailbroken your iPhone/iTouch.


SSH into your iphone
Go to /System/Library/CoreServices/Springboard.app/
Download the file M68AP.plist
Open the file using a text editor or a plist editor
Add a Boolean value under the capabilities dictionary
Boolean Key = gas-gauge-battery / Boolean Value = true
Save and upload the file to the same directory that it was originally in
Go onto the iPhone and respring /restart
Now go to the application Settings -> General -> Usage and there will be a Battery Percentage toggle and you can use it to enable battery percentage next to battery icon in top-right corner.

(from funkyspacemonkey)



Works fine on my 2G iPhone that didn't show the slider before.

I've been testing this on my 2G for two days now, and it works good.

...looks like another reason to upgrade

Thats the idea from Apple to other users on buying new things.
Disabling Functions on older Hardware to send users on buying new Hardware. But thats the spirit for selling new things that most people don't need. Looks like Apple took some lessons from the big M here...


Nice one, Apple, for leaving out working options in order to make other people buy your newest gimmick.