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Best non draining battry widget?

i use battery life by curvefish ....and i have not noticed any batt drain from it

http://www.androlib.com/android.application.com-curvefish-batterylife-qqB.aspx

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I have resigned myself to having a shortcut to Spare Parts on my home screen, and click into that and go to battery percentage to see what the battery percentage is. It takes a couple clicks, but doesn't drain the battery like the widgets.
Same here. Usually the indicator at the top is good enough, but when curiosity gets the best of me, I just make a couple taps and boom, there it is.

The HTC widget DOES use up battery at a noticeable rate. Took a few days to realize what was happening. Once I got rid of it, I was back to normal.
 
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Battery indicator by darshan computing, it sits in the notification bar and shows % left. No noticable drain after a week or so, tried the curvefish widget, but it seemed to use up the battery faster. For $.99 it'll change colors when you get low but its free otherwise.


Thank you a million times! That is what I have been wanting from day one! Now I don't have to unlock my phone to see how much battery % I have left.

I also agree it seems to be the best for conserving the most battery. I've used Battery Widget, as well as HTC's battery widget and they both seemed to drain my battery a little faster than I'd like.
 
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Thank you a million times! That is what I have been wanting from day one! Now I don't have to unlock my phone to see how much battery % I have left.


I also agree it seems to be the best for conserving the most battery. I've used Battery Widget, as well as HTC's battery widget and they both seemed to drain my battery a little faster than I'd like.

+1 im liking this one . Thanks
 
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Battery indicator by darshan computing, it sits in the notification bar and shows % left. No noticable drain after a week or so, tried the curvefish widget, but it seemed to use up the battery faster. For $.99 it'll change colors when you get low but its free otherwise.

Are you saying that the CurveFish one costs .99 to show the extra info? I don't think that is right... I have that one, and got it to do all of that for free...

Just tap on it, then go into the settings menu, also you can change the color settings at will...

Unless they changed something?
 
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No. Curvefish eats your battery, BatteryIndicator costs $.99 for the Pro version
Are you saying that the CurveFish one costs .99 to show the extra info? I don't think that is right... I have that one, and got it to do all of that for free...

Just tap on it, then go into the settings menu, also you can change the color settings at will...

Unless they changed something?
 
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