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?
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How to get battery percentage in 3.0?
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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.
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.
I don't think it will be available until the official release of 3.0, if that's a new feature at all.
Ah. Thanks.
That's pretty strange. I expect this to be the third generation iPod touch then.
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.
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.
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%.
Thats strange, since the graphic that is displayed is calculated from the same numbers as the percentage.
Yeah? Yeah?! That's all you have to say? You aren't even quoting anyone. Waste of a post...
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.