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	krk969	2010-01-20 , 11:07
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Originally Posted by fraaaaanka

I reckon the developer could add this option in as a rough guide for people (could never be exact as one day you might not use the phone at all then the next day you are browsing the web/listening to music etc etc

In the options menu there could be a selector for what kind of usage you expect to be doing with medium usage providing say 10 hours of usage
Heavy Usage....= 10hours X 0.6 = 6 Hours Remaining
Medium Usage..=10hours X 1.0 = 10 Hours Remaining
Low Usage........=10hours X 1.4 = 14 Hours Remaining
Then there could be an estimated time remaining on battery dispayed depending on your usage.

If you get what i mean.
ps the above mentioned times remaining is NOT any official figures, i just used those to give an example.

Ive wanted to add this too earlier as its quite a useful thing to know.
The only reason I kept it out is that this info is available in the lshal command output(on tapping the widget) as remaining time and this widget does not execute lshal or any such command periodically to display the percentage instead there are QT wrappers available that send a signal to the app when the level changes. I rely on this to make the app less power hungry.

Alternatively I could change the behaviour of the app to poll the battery values using lshal and output info like percentage/voltage/remaining time/drain rate etc .
But need to a way to check how power hungry it would be as compared to the current implementation.

cheers

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