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I wish I knew. I can barely read it on the OG EVO (that's what happens when one is older than 40--LOL), and I cannot read it at all on the LTE EVO. :(

I'm older than 40 and I can see mine because it's not super tiny! ;)
Have you tried uninstalling and re-installing the app to see if it makes any difference? Other than that I have no idea what you could do to fix it, seems like something's messed up.

Are you using a different launcher or have you added any apps that could be affecting it? And is it just that one icon that's super small or are all the icons up there smaller than they should be?
 
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I'm older than 40 and I can see mine because it's not super tiny! ;)
Have you tried uninstalling and re-installing the app to see if it makes any difference? Other than that I have no idea what you could do to fix it, seems like something's messed up.

Are you using a different launcher or have you added any apps that could be affecting it? And is it just that one icon that's super small or are all the icons up there smaller than they should be?

Uninstalling it and re-installing it hasn't helped. I'm using the stock launcher. All the icons are their usual small size; it's just this Battery Indicator Pro battery icon is much smaller relative to any others on my notification bar.
 
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Awesome report! Thanks for sharing. I know in the R/C car/plane world, Li-Po is the best thing since sliced bread... but damn they're expensive! I'm glad you posted this.. Thx!

I agree lipo batteries are great, but very dangerous if mis handled or charged improperly. As an rc car and helicopter hobbyist, I have personally seen thse types of battery turn into a rechargable hand grenade, look it up on YouTube, many videos on the subject of exploding lipos. Honestly if it did come.with a lipo, I would be strongly against getting one...
 
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I thought these typed of batteries you didn't have to fully discharge and recharge a few times in the beginning. I let my battery get to 14% and it said recharge and I plugged it in.Very rarely does my phone drain to the point where it shuts off but it has. And I usually go home and plug it in and it has to sit for a minute or so before it will turn on.

I got Battery Indicator and I bought the pro a few hours ago cause it mentioned themes and colors and it said you could disable the lock screen but it didn't disable for me and I didn't really see themes and colors I don't know I asked for a refund. Maybe i was doing something wrong. I thought maybe it not disabling the lock screen was an ICS thing. But when I turned off screen and back on lock screen was there.

I wanted an indicator in my bar up to be different colors as your battery drains kind of like circular that I used to have. I know widgets do that but wasn't sure if one did it up in your bar. Maybe I wont have it up in my bar and use a widget. I saw one where you touch it and it lets you turn on/off bt wifi and gps and I kind of liked it cause our settings once you click it at the top doesn't have a gps on off like wifi,bluetooth and mobile network. I know you just go down to locator but I was used to having it on the 3D in quick settings.
 
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I thought these typed of batteries you didn't have to fully discharge and recharge a few times in the beginning. I let my battery get to 14% and it said recharge and I plugged it in.Very rarely does my phone drain to the point where it shuts off but it has. And I usually go home and plug it in and it has to sit for a minute or so before it will turn on.

I got Battery Indicator and I bought the pro a few hours ago cause it mentioned themes and colors and it said you could disable the lock screen but it didn't disable for me and I didn't really see themes and colors I don't know I asked for a refund. Maybe i was doing something wrong. I thought maybe it not disabling the lock screen was an ICS thing. But when I turned off screen and back on lock screen was there.

I wanted an indicator in my bar up to be different colors as your battery drains kind of like circular that I used to have. I know widgets do that but wasn't sure if one did it up in your bar. Maybe I wont have it up in my bar and use a widget. I saw one where you touch it and it lets you turn on/off bt wifi and gps and I kind of liked it cause our settings once you click it at the top doesn't have a gps on off like wifi,bluetooth and mobile network. I know you just go down to locator but I was used to having it on the 3D in quick settings.

Battery Indicator Pro does, indeed, allow you to select different colors of the battery icon and set these colors to correspond to a charge level that you can customize. Green, amber, and red are just some of the ones listed that you can customize.
 
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Do it changes the colors of the indicator when it's up top in the task bar? And I couldn't get the disable lock screen to disable my lockscreen. He said it wasn't an IC thing so maybe it's a sense thing I don't know.

Battery Indicator Pro does, indeed, allow you to select different colors of the battery icon and set these colors to correspond to a charge level that you can customize. Green, amber, and red are just some of the ones listed that you can customize.
 
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FWIW, I've read (including in this thread) that keeping WiFi on when there's a strong signal, like at home/work, will actually help retain battery power. I put this to the test by keeping my WiFi on over several nights while I slept. The router is right next to my bedroom and I got full bars on the WiFi. I topped the phone off each night before bed, and by morning, I was getting anywhere between 75% - 82% charge remaining. Last night, I did the same, but turned off WiFi...this morning I had 95% charge remaining.
 
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FWIW, I've read (including in this thread) that keeping WiFi on when there's a strong signal, like at home/work, will actually help retain battery power. I put this to the test by keeping my WiFi on over several nights while I slept. The router is right next to my bedroom and I got full bars on the WiFi. I topped the phone off each night before bed, and by morning, I was getting anywhere between 75% - 82% charge remaining. Last night, I did the same, but turned off WiFi...this morning I had 95% charge remaining.

Some people are having wifi issues where it is constantly losing and reacquiring signal. That has to be happening to you.

Try WiFi Analyzer to make sure you're on a clean channel. The One X already has an OTA fix for this. Until ours comes, try best wifi
performance or a static ip under advanced wifi settings.

Or stick with 3G overnight until the fix is in.
 
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FWIW, I've read (including in this thread) that keeping WiFi on when there's a strong signal, like at home/work, will actually help retain battery power. I put this to the test by keeping my WiFi on over several nights while I slept. The router is right next to my bedroom and I got full bars on the WiFi. I topped the phone off each night before bed, and by morning, I was getting anywhere between 75% - 82% charge remaining. Last night, I did the same, but turned off WiFi...this morning I had 95% charge remaining.

I commend you for doing a real-world test. I think more people should do this rather than just taking on faith what others have said.

My experience with wifi is that regardless if I turn it off or on during standby, the battery drain is about the same (about the 5% overnight value you got from your test). To me, this indicates that leaving wifi on has negligible drain on the battery, provided that you have a good, solid connection to an access point.

I have the same experience with BT. By its short-range nature, BT uses less power than wifi, so this is to be expected. Again same caveat. As long as the signal strength is solid, there should be negligible impact to the battery.

3G and 4G are a completely different story. these connections require significant power, even when signal strength is decent. Turning them off when in standby saves a lot of power. Of course, doing so means certain tradeoffs, like not being able to stream music, do GPS tracking, get push email notifications, etc. So it's not always appropriate. But smart management of 3G/4G radio is a big battery saver.
 
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Some people are having wifi issues where it is constantly losing and reacquiring signal. That has to be happening to you.

Try WiFi Analyzer to make sure you're on a clean channel. The One X already has an OTA fix for this. Until ours comes, try best wifi
performance or a static ip under advanced wifi settings.

Or stick with 3G overnight until the fix is in.

Thanks. Ironically, when I switch to "best wifi performance" is when I can actually see my phone dropping then gaining signal repeatedly. I've horsed around with this several times over the last few days and, assuming the wifi indicator is accurate, I get a much more stable signal with "best wifi performance" unchecked. Who knows?

Hopefully they'll come up with an OTA fix sooner than later that won't mess up root (or will be an easy root work around).
 
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FWIW, I've read (including in this thread) that keeping WiFi on when there's a strong signal, like at home/work, will actually help retain battery power. I put this to the test by keeping my WiFi on over several nights while I slept. The router is right next to my bedroom and I got full bars on the WiFi. I topped the phone off each night before bed, and by morning, I was getting anywhere between 75% - 82% charge remaining. Last night, I did the same, but turned off WiFi...this morning I had 95% charge remaining.
Someone deserves an honorary science badge :D
 
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I charged my phone, it got to 99%. I downloaded a few apps, played some games, checked email -- I've now been using it for 1 hr 20 min, and my battery charge is.....still 99%. Weird.

It's not that weird. I've been running my phone hard all day, 11.5hrs and I just hit 16%. This thing is awesome on battery life!
 
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I charged my phone, it got to 99%. I downloaded a few apps, played some games, checked email -- I've now been using it for 1 hr 20 min, and my battery charge is.....still 99%. Weird.

Just going by what you wrote here, i can only deduce that you NEVER UNPLUGGED THE CHARGE CABLE!

I'm just teasing.
 
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I charged my phone, it got to 99%. I downloaded a few apps, played some games, checked email -- I've now been using it for 1 hr 20 min, and my battery charge is.....still 99%. Weird.

Was this on Wi-fi?
Can you also provide other important settings as well, like brightness level, connection level, sync settings, etc...

I seemingly have not been getting as high quality battery life as alot of people have been reporting, however it makes it incredibly difficult to judge when there are little to no details to go along with the statistics...

I have a friendly request, I'd like to encourage everyone to try to provide more details with their statistics, please?
 
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I barely get any battery consumption when I'm using WiFi at my house.. I have no idea why it uses so little juice.

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I don't leave mine on all night but I would say for maybe 5 or 6 hours after I get home from work... During this time... It seems like I loose no battery... I am really surprised and pleased with the battery on this phone.... Like... Seriously.... Lol
 
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