[android-developers] Re: battery status check

I know lot of people have praised Motorola Android phones very highly,
but the stubbornness you describe on the part of Motorola is a good
example of how I learned to hate Motorola phones back around 2000,
when they started making one boneheaded decision after another in
their mobile phones. The last Motorola phone I really liked was the
Startac! And I hated the UI even on that phone.

Every Motorola phone I tried since then just kept getting worse. But
since my job required supporting their efforts to integrate third
party MMS messaging, I had to live with it and make sure I didn't slip
up and tell them what I -really- thought of their firmware engineering:
(

On Jun 28, 10:00 am, Dianne Hackborn <hack...@android.com> wrote:
> This has nothing to do with Android, it is Motorola's driver and/or
> hardware.
>
> I argued with them about this whole 10% increment thing on the Droid.  Sad
> to see they are still doing it.
>
> On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 6:32 AM, Mystic Prowler <coolmar...@gmail.com>wrote:
>
> > Well, i have a Motorola Droid X running 2.3.3, and it does that no matter
> > what OS it has. Is there a way to change it.... a hack?
>
> > On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 7:13 AM, Mark Murphy <mmur...@commonsware.com>wrote:
>
> >> On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 7:00 AM, Mystic Prowler <coolmar...@gmail.com>
> >> wrote:
> >> > Juts asking, why is that when Android phones are charging or
> >> discharging, it
> >> > shows in 10% intervals and below 20% it goes down to 5% intervals. Can
> >> it be
> >> > changed to 1% intervals for more accuracy?
>
> >> That is up to the device manufacturer. Some devices report 1%
> >> intervals all along. Others -- notably some Motorola devices -- behave
> >> has you describe.
>
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> questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and
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