battery usage monitor with graph, estimates, notification?

[crankpuss]

I'd like to find a battery monitor like the one BlackBerry provides as
part of their stock OS. It shows a battery percentage graph and
estimates the number of days remaining.

I've found "Battery Life Magic" (which seems well-liked by numerous
reviewers), but it does not provide a graph, it isn't clear whether it
tracks previous usage to improve its remaining-time estimates, and it
estimates time-to-0%, instead of time-to some configurable percent at
which is notifies you.

What are those of you who monitor your battery usage using to monitor
your battery usage?


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[Jolly Roger]

crankpuss <undisclo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'd like to find a battery monitor like the one BlackBerry provides as
> part of their stock OS. It shows a battery percentage graph and
> estimates the number of days remaining.
>
> I've found "Battery Life Magic" (which seems well-liked by numerous
> reviewers), but it does not provide a graph, it isn't clear whether it
> tracks previous usage to improve its remaining-time estimates, and it
> estimates time-to-0%, instead of time-to some configurable percent at
> which is notifies you.
>
> What are those of you who monitor your battery usage using to monitor
> your battery usage?

Most of us are far too busy living life to babysit our batteries. iOS is
designed for people who want their devices to get out of their way so they
can get shit done quickly and efficiently and move on to the next thing.
You can display the percentage right up on the status bar on the battery
widget in iOS, which is plenty enough information for most people to know
whether they need a charge or not.

At any rate, for those who are obsessed with babysitting their battery,
there are easily found solutions:

<http://bfy.tw/6roh>

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[crankypuss]

On 07/22/2016 10:54 AM, Jolly Roger wrote:
> crankpuss <undisclo...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I'd like to find a battery monitor like the one BlackBerry provides as
>> part of their stock OS. It shows a battery percentage graph and
>> estimates the number of days remaining.
>>
>> I've found "Battery Life Magic" (which seems well-liked by numerous
>> reviewers), but it does not provide a graph, it isn't clear whether it
>> tracks previous usage to improve its remaining-time estimates, and it
>> estimates time-to-0%, instead of time-to some configurable percent at
>> which is notifies you.
>>
>> What are those of you who monitor your battery usage using to monitor
>> your battery usage?
>
> Most of us are far too busy living life to babysit our batteries.

You must be busy living life in one place near an electric outlet; I
never know when I'll have an opportunity to charge next, so I like to be
able to check the situation.

> iOS is
> designed for people who want their devices to get out of their way so they
> can get shit done quickly and efficiently and move on to the next thing.

Please don't preach to the choir.

> You can display the percentage right up on the status bar on the battery
> widget in iOS, which is plenty enough information for most people to know
> whether they need a charge or not.

If it was large enough to read, it would give one some information over
time.

>
> At any rate, for those who are obsessed with babysitting their battery,
> there are easily found solutions:
>
> <http://bfy.tw/6roh>
>

You sir are an asshole.

[Jolly Roger]

On 2016-07-22, crankypuss <undisclo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 07/22/2016 10:54 AM, Jolly Roger wrote:
>> crankpuss <undisclo...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I'd like to find a battery monitor like the one BlackBerry provides as
>>> part of their stock OS. It shows a battery percentage graph and
>>> estimates the number of days remaining.
>>>
>>> I've found "Battery Life Magic" (which seems well-liked by numerous
>>> reviewers), but it does not provide a graph, it isn't clear whether it
>>> tracks previous usage to improve its remaining-time estimates, and it
>>> estimates time-to-0%, instead of time-to some configurable percent at
>>> which is notifies you.
>>>
>>> What are those of you who monitor your battery usage using to monitor
>>> your battery usage?
>>
>> Most of us are far too busy living life to babysit our batteries.
>
> You must be busy living life in one place near an electric outlet; I
> never know when I'll have an opportunity to charge next, so I like to
> be able to check the situation.

The battery level is displayed right at the top of the screen, so you
already have all you need.

>> You can display the percentage right up on the status bar on the
>> battery widget in iOS, which is plenty enough information for most
>> people to know whether they need a charge or not.
>
> If it was large enough to read

It is.

> it would give one some information over time.

It gives you the battery level, which is sufficient to determine whether
you need to charge it soon.

>> At any rate, for those who are obsessed with babysitting their
>> battery, there are easily found solutions:
>>
>> <http://bfy.tw/6roh>
>
> You sir are an asshole.

The link above brings you to web pages that describe precisely what you
asked for.

[Martin Frost me at invalid stanford daht edu]

crankypuss <undisclo...@gmail.com> writes:

> On 07/22/2016 10:54 AM, Jolly Roger wrote:
> > crankpuss <undisclo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> I'd like to find a battery monitor like the one BlackBerry provides as
> >> part of their stock OS. It shows a battery percentage graph and
> >> estimates the number of days remaining.
> >>
> >> I've found "Battery Life Magic" (which seems well-liked by numerous
> >> reviewers), but it does not provide a graph, it isn't clear whether it
> >> tracks previous usage to improve its remaining-time estimates, and it
> >> estimates time-to-0%, instead of time-to some configurable percent at
> >> which is notifies you.
> >>
> >> What are those of you who monitor your battery usage using to monitor
> >> your battery usage?

>...

> > You can display the percentage right up on the status bar on the battery
> > widget in iOS, which is plenty enough information for most people to know
> > whether they need a charge or not.
>
> If it was large enough to read, it would give one some information over
> time.

Perhaps you misunderstood his suggestion. Go to Settings -> Battery
and turn on Battery Percentage to get a numeric battery
percentage-of-full next to the battery icon in the top right corner.

Martin

[Patty Winter]

In article <myzip85...@Sunburn.Stanford.EDU>,

Martin Frost me at invalid stanford daht edu <nos...@stanford.edu.invalid> wrote:
>
>Perhaps you misunderstood his suggestion. Go to Settings -> Battery
>and turn on Battery Percentage to get a numeric battery
>percentage-of-full next to the battery icon in the top right corner.

I'm pretty sure it's even the default. Maybe he turned it off.


Patty

[Peter Crosland]

It is not the default.


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[crankypuss]

Perhaps you misunderstood my response. I know where it is and how to
turn it on. It's too small for me to read without glasses. Although
settings>general>accessability (as I recall) allows you to choose larger
fonts, they never display in the status-bar, and if you do select larger
fonts, half the settings screens have malsized fonts shown. It's
half-assed imo, some things like this need to be implemented
across-the-board but iOS obviously is not designed that way. No drama,
I can always let the thing run down entirely and pitch it into the
nearest lake.

[Lewis]

In message <nn01if$60d$7...@dont-email.me>

If your eyesight is so poor that you cannot read the battery indicator
number then you need to enable some accessibility settings.

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[David Empson]

crankypuss <undisclo...@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 07/22/2016 11:43 PM, Martin Frost me at invalid stanford daht edu wrote:
> > crankypuss <undisclo...@gmail.com> writes:
> >
> >> On 07/22/2016 10:54 AM, Jolly Roger wrote:
> >>> crankpuss <undisclo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>> I'd like to find a battery monitor like the one BlackBerry provides as
> >>>> part of their stock OS. It shows a battery percentage graph and
> >>>> estimates the number of days remaining.
> >>>>
> >>>> I've found "Battery Life Magic" (which seems well-liked by numerous
> >>>> reviewers), but it does not provide a graph, it isn't clear whether it
> >>>> tracks previous usage to improve its remaining-time estimates, and it
> >>>> estimates time-to-0%, instead of time-to some configurable percent at
> >>>> which is notifies you.
> >>>>
> >>>> What are those of you who monitor your battery usage using to monitor
> >>>> your battery usage?
> >> ...
> >>> You can display the percentage right up on the status bar on the battery
> >>> widget in iOS, which is plenty enough information for most people to know
> >>> whether they need a charge or not.
> >>
> >> If it was large enough to read, it would give one some information over
> >> time.
> >
> > Perhaps you misunderstood his suggestion. Go to Settings -> Battery
> > and turn on Battery Percentage to get a numeric battery
> > percentage-of-full next to the battery icon in the top right corner.
>

> Perhaps you misunderstood my response. I know where it is and how to
> turn it on. It's too small for me to read without glasses.

Which iPhone model did you get? If it is an iPhone 6, 6S, 6 Plus or 6S
Plus, it has a setting under Display & Brightness > Display Zoom which
persistently enlarges everything on the screen, making it behave like
the next smaller iPhone screen size (thus everything on the screen is
about 15% bigger). A restart is required to change this setting.

> Although settings>general>accessability (as I recall) allows you to choose
> larger fonts, they never display in the status-bar, and if you do select
> larger fonts, half the settings screens have malsized fonts shown. It's
> half-assed imo, some things like this need to be implemented
> across-the-board but iOS obviously is not designed that way. No drama, I
> can always let the thing run down entirely and pitch it into the nearest
> lake.

For all models, there is also General > Accessibility > Zoom to
temporarily magnify the entire screen and pan around it using three
fingers. (You can set up an accessibility shortcut to enable/disable
zoom by triple-clicking the home button, but read the page about it in
Settings first so you know which gestures are used.)

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[crankypuss]

I got the SE, tired of carrying a larger/heavier phone. I'm not seeing
the options you mention, but it isn't any of the models you mentioned
either. There's an accessability setting that can be used to turn on a
magnifier temporarily, assuming you touch it with twelve fingers and an
elbow or something like that, but for a quick battery-check it's too
much fiddling imo.

>
>> Although settings>general>accessability (as I recall) allows you to choose
>> larger fonts, they never display in the status-bar, and if you do select
>> larger fonts, half the settings screens have malsized fonts shown. It's
>> half-assed imo, some things like this need to be implemented
>> across-the-board but iOS obviously is not designed that way. No drama, I
>> can always let the thing run down entirely and pitch it into the nearest
>> lake.
>
> For all models, there is also General > Accessibility > Zoom to
> temporarily magnify the entire screen and pan around it using three
> fingers. (You can set up an accessibility shortcut to enable/disable
> zoom by triple-clicking the home button, but read the page about it in
> Settings first so you know which gestures are used.)
>

This is one of the touch-screen-interface aspects that nobody in the
industry has addressed yet; gestures need to be postive, simple, and
obvious... I saw something now forgotten that wanted four fingers? As if.

[crankypuss]

Read the post before your waste both of our time replying with what has
already been covered in the post you are replying to.

I changed the wallpaper to something dark at the top, and now the white
letters are easier to read, just small.

[David Empson]

It doesn't exist on the SE (nor any other iPhone with a 4-inch display),
because there is no smaller standard iPhone screen size with the same
aspect ratio.

With Display Zoom enabled, on models with a 4.7-inch display, everything
is scaled to behave like a 4-inch display; on models with a 5.5-inch
display, everything is scaled to behave like 4.7-inch display. This
works system wide because all apps are simply told the display is
smaller, and they already support the 4-inch and 4.7-inch displays.

The SE can't use this feature because it would need to scale down to
about a 3.4-inch 16:9 display (narrower than the original iPhone
display), and no apps (nor standard iOS user interface components) are
set up to handle a display of that size.

> There's an accessability setting that can be used to turn on a
> magnifier temporarily, assuming you touch it with twelve fingers and an
> elbow or something like that, but for a quick battery-check it's too
> much fiddling imo.

I tried it before my previous post: three fingers are used to manipulate
the zoom mode: double-tap to turn zoom on or off, or drag with three
fingers to pan around the zoomed display. Seems easy enough.

Changing the zoom factor a bit more fiddly: double-tap with three
fingers and hold, then drag up or down.

> >> Although settings>general>accessability (as I recall) allows you to choose
> >> larger fonts, they never display in the status-bar, and if you do select
> >> larger fonts, half the settings screens have malsized fonts shown. It's
> >> half-assed imo, some things like this need to be implemented
> >> across-the-board but iOS obviously is not designed that way. No drama, I
> >> can always let the thing run down entirely and pitch it into the nearest
> >> lake.
> >
> > For all models, there is also General > Accessibility > Zoom to
> > temporarily magnify the entire screen and pan around it using three
> > fingers. (You can set up an accessibility shortcut to enable/disable
> > zoom by triple-clicking the home button, but read the page about it in
> > Settings first so you know which gestures are used.)
> >
>
> This is one of the touch-screen-interface aspects that nobody in the
> industry has addressed yet; gestures need to be postive, simple, and
> obvious... I saw something now forgotten that wanted four fingers? As if.

The gestures for zoom mode need to be different from standard gestures,
or they would be ambiguous. That rules out anything involving tapping or
dragging with one finger, or two fingers (e.g. used for rotate and
pinch).

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