I have changed the system icons to percentages instead of the standard icon. However, obviously, this is just an icon change. I was wondering if there was a way to use the Mobility API (or similar) to fetch the battery percentage (same shown in Settings) and display it in the status bar instead of the current 'portion' style icon.

Edit: Have contact THP and Ejas Mudar who are providing support on this. Hopefully this will be completed soon enough

Okay, have found how to populate the icon thanks to THP's IPAddress widget, and have managed to successfully create it.

I am now having issues allowing the app to have root access to alter the icon, since directing to a user file results in reboot loop :/

If anyone knows how to help, feel free to contact me at michaelmnb@hotmail.com.au

I can't help you but good luck for this great feature

Wow souds like a cool things to have best of luck with your work

QBW already offers % for battery consumption but yea it has never been right to the precision it should have been.Good luck.

I have announced the first version of my app, take a look here
http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=82526