I saw this mentioned in a Gizmodo comment. Does anyone know about a hack that when you tap on the status bar battery icon it changes to the percentage remaining on the charge?
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Battery % Hack
- Thread starter darngooddesign
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Yeah, its available through installer.app, in the "Extended Preferences" for iPhone, or "Advanced Preferences" for the iPod Touch.
Its under the "Interface" menu.
The source for MMI is: modmyifone.com/installer.xml
The app is called "Extended Preferences," or "Advanced Preferences."
I added this when I was on jailbroken 1.1.2. Did a restore and updated to 1.1.3 and it seems to have avoided the purge for some reason. So now I have a 1.1.3 phone that I can tap on the battery to see the percentage of battery life left. Unexpected that it would survive the 1.1.3 update, but very cool nonetheless.
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When I go to uninstall mine, it shows up in the "Tweaks" section and source says modmyifone.com, so I'm pretty sure that's where it came from, especially because I don't have that many other sources added. I do wish this was a separate hack, but the Extended Preferences app is pretty small. Actually searching a bit it seems there may be a program called aqwoah battery that will do this. Anyhow here's what mine looks like:
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i cant find anything liek extended preferences or anything battery related, and i have the mod my iphone source, annoying..
Guys, be careful about Extended Preferences, it is still unstable.
http://www.modmyifone.com/forums/showthread.php?t=25284&extended+preferences
http://www.modmyifone.com/forums/showthread.php?t=25284&extended+preferences
Ha, really? I haven't had any problems with it. Although I'm just using the battery hack.
That's funny, 'cuz from some reports I've seen on other forums, the new version of Installer itself is unstable...but yeah, I avoided this app as well after reading some horror stories about the damage it seemed to cause some users.