Help Motorola's new 1% battery increments

[Shurple]

Today I woke to many updates for my apps. I use Gauge Battery Widget and today they released the new 1% Motorola battery increments update.

I'm noticing the SECOND i unplug my phone, it goes from 100% to 99%. then it goes down 1% every two minutes.

1. Does anyone else use this app and notice this?
2. Is this really what Motorola is rolling out? If you use another app that shows actual % of the battery and not a picture, are you seeing 1% increments and is it draining super fast for you?

Thanks

 

[TG1]

I've been using Circle Battery widget on my Moto phones for some time now and I've always seen this behavior. The second I unplug it drops to 99%. How it drops after that is subject to how I use it, though.

 

[redsox985]

I feel like this is something made 3rd party "for Moto phones" and not something released by Moto, as that would be pushed OTA.

 

[doogald]

This is completely normal and expected for Li-ion battery packs.

There is great information here, if you are interested: Charging Lithium-Ion Batteries ? Battery University

 

[Shurple]

red: supposedly Motorola is testing out 1% increments and gave Gauge Battery permission to use it. Supposedly*

 

[redsox985]

Nice!

 

[doogald]

There are a number of battery monitoring apps that report on 1% increments on Moto devices that usually report in 10% increments, and all of them have that almost immediate drop to 99%. I don't think that the Gauge Battery widget is doing anything that any of the others haven't already been doing.

The developer of Battery Indicator (and Battery Indicator Pro) has an explanation of what he had to do to get the 1% increments hacked into his app. See OnePercentHack - battery-indicator - Info about the one-percent hack for devices that default to multiples of 10 percent. - Battery Indicator for Android - Google Project Hosting