battery percentage disappeared from status bar. cant get it restored

[thunderlumber]

moto g power 2021. owned the phone for a short time. initially i had the battery percentage displayed in the status bar, then it suddenly went away. if i go to settings-battery-battery percentage-show battery percentage in status bar, it still is missing. oddly enough, it does show when i swipe down on the status bar. i have always liked to see the percentage when the screen is displayed. any ideas what i can try? TIA

 

[Unforgiven]

I'm not sure how it is on Moto, though they tend to be more stock like. For my Pixel there is a toggle under Settings | Battery to show the percentage in the task bar. If it isn't exactly there, hunt around for where the battery settings are on your Moto.

 

[ocnbrze]

Have you tried rebooting the phone? Maybe try the phone in safe mode as well.

 

[Dannydet]

Sounds like your having multiple issues with this phone.
I'd do a factory reset and see if that clears things up

 

[svim]

Your Moto G Power is running Android ver. 10 isn't it? Before resorting to more extreme measures, I'd just focus on fixing this particular issue, hopefully it's just a one-off glitch. But it is odd that you can still see the Battery percentage when swiping down but it stopped being always showing.

In Settings menu, instead of in the Battery submenu the Battery percentage option might be buried elsewhere. Try opening Settings in the upper search bar do a search for status or status bar and that might reveal something relevant. Try toggling the Battery percentage off and on a couple of times. Perhaps the config file for that process just became corrupted somehow and needs to be written over to delete it.
If all that isn't even relevant, can you think of anything that occurred that might have triggered this to happen? A change to a Setting menu you made or an app you installed? The Notification and the Status bars are a dumping ground for all kinds of apps and all kinds of background services so interference with one or the other isn't surprising.

This pdf is Motorola's User Manual for your model, might be a handy reference to bookmark in your browser for future reference:
https://help.motorola.com/hc/3186/10/pdf/help-moto-g-power-10-na-en-us.pdf

 

[thunderlumber]

Sounds like your having multiple issues with this phone.
I'd do a factory reset and see if that clears things up

i will try this when i get some time. nothing else has worked

 

[Dannydet]

I've got a Motorola G Stylus 2021, similar to yours.
Go to settings, battery, then show percentage to toggle on...

 

[thunderlumber]

I've got a Motorola G Stylus 2021, similar to yours.
Go to settings, battery, then show percentage to toggle on... View attachment 164453View attachment 164454

yes. i have done that multiple times. no success

 

[Dannydet]

Well if you have tried that it should fix the issue.
If not, then the most drastic option is a factory reset

 

[thunderlumber]

well i figured it out. if the display size in display settings is set to default, the battery percentage show up, if i change the display to anything larger than default the percentage goes away. WTF? guess ill have to choose between seeing the percentage or larger widgets. tough choice for these old eyes

 

[Dannydet]

Glad to hear you sorted it out