CurveFish Useful software for Android™ devices

A really cool widget. Gone through many alikes and finally using this one! Russian developers are one of the best on the market СУПЕР!

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Exceptional widget, please, keep it downloadable for everyone to enjoy! The BEST on the market, by far. Thanks again !

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Great app,only problem that I’ve encountered is the custom trip color battery doesn’t display how it should or it could be that I don’t know how to figure that part out,keep up the great work.

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Nice widget!

However my widget is showing a temperature of 2.9 C, while 29 C seems more likely. I suppose this is due to a rounding error?

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Funciona de maravilla da la temperatura real y los colores son maravillosos

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Where can I find this battery manager? I could not locate it under android market. Thanks.

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Vladimir Baryshnikov Reply:
November 4th, 2009 at 3:40 PM

2SuperBaby:
Settings->About phone->Battery use (here you can see what using your battery)

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Hi there,

i really love your battery widget. Is a 1×1 version planned?

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Quite often this doesn’t update on my home screen. I’ll show my battery in the status area as being at 3/4, but the batterylife icon still shows 97% or 100%. Sometimes it updates on its own, but more often than not it’s not updating.

Bug? (I’m running on a Sprint HTC Hero)

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Vladimir Baryshnikov Reply:
November 18th, 2009 at 2:50 PM

Rick, probably you are using something like apps killer. Add BatteryLife to ignore list.

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I’ve found I can “Force” it to update by holding down on any icon on my home screen as if I were going to rearrange it. At least there’s that. Again, I have no apps killer running on my phone and I now have the latest firmware Sprint HTC Hero update applied (1.5)

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Would it be possible to add the feature that the battery State-of-Charge is calculated by (user input) Voltage range (e.g. linear mapping from 3.4V to 4.2V (0-100%)). This seems to be a much better indication when performing shallow charge/discharge.

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Amazing app! Any chance of having the percentage removable? Or at least movable? I don’t like how it covers the battery. Id much rather see the entire battery.

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I know that can be done but the OS still thinks it’s there after the uninstall.
Why is it still there and how can it be removed so it’s not recognized by the OS anymore?

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Very well done guys! Your widget is the best available in the market and the most complete. I have some suggestions for you: you should add a 1×1 version of the widget for those with limited desktop space, and a little options menu to individually choose the values to be shown: most people will want to see the remaining time (a feature you’re currently missing), while nerds will stuck with mVolts indicator, and nobody (I think) will want to see the technology (I know it’s Li-ion and it’s not gonna change, so no need to waste space on the desktop for that).

Also, please try to fix the graphic bar problem, which I’ve seen is very common. On my Liquid (Donut, 480*800 px, widget v1.3.3) when battery is 100% the colored bar is just a little more than half of the total width of the widget. Apart from this, the graphic style is exceptional.

Thank you very much for this awesome widget!

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When go into menu/add/widget , none of the curvefish widgets show up unless I go back to my original home. Can anybody help me?

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Vladimir Baryshnikov Reply:
February 2nd, 2010 at 9:21 PM

You should ask help from your home replacemnt developers. Maybe you are using some sort of lite version, which do not support widgets.

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Trully great app! But on my Archos 5 IT it shows wrong temperature. It says that battery temp is about 2 celius degrees. May be I missed something but at last it should be about my room temperatire. How it can be so low?!..

And, please, make multilanguage interface or pont out what should I edit. Just want see it in russian!

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got the droid but when I added widget I dont see the temp or other things left of battery and how can i customize it i tried clicking on battery but it acts like im trying to move it pls help

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really would like to see the power meter or any and all apps with black as a color option, which helps with power levels when things are in black. thanks!

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I stand corrected. After I uninstalled Battery Life and reinstalled it while under Helix, it loads fine. Time to donate! Great application!

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Great app! one quick question: i read on a forum that this can give an alert when the battery goes below “x” percent… having trouble finding that feature, if its there. Thanks!

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Thanks for this wonderful app.

Would it be possible to make a sound when it reaches (e.g.) 4100mV? (your battery lives twice as long when you unplug it at 4100mV).

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It would be perfect if clicking on it showed some detailed battery usage information instead of options. Instead, a BatteryLife icon should be in the app drawer to launch the options.

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Hi, could you possibly implement a setting to show the percentage under the battery instead of on-top of it.

Great widget!

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Great app thanks! Have you considered a charging animation option? I see the USB plug in, but it would be nice to see some sort of charging indication. The charging info does not seem to have this ability. I’m on a Galaxy S by the way.

Thanks!

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i have the droid and downloaded battery life for my phone, unfortunately my phone recently encountered a virus and verizon had to reset my phone back to factory mode deleting all my apps. when redownloading battery life, it doesnt let me open the application, does anyone else have this problem?? help me please

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Vladimir Baryshnikov Reply:
August 19th, 2010 at 12:30 PM

Don’t open it, you need to add it to the home screen. Long click -> widgets-> BatteryLife

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В остальном – отличный виджет! И за работу, и за дизайн, и за цену – огромное спасибо.

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After upgrading my Desire to FroYo 2.2 the text displaying the battery percentage on the widget (for example “96%”) doesn’t sit in the middle battery graphic properly where it should do….it is too high. Only a minor issue but please consider fixing this in your next update. Thanks.

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Hello. You have an excellent widget here. I however am having some layout issues. When the battery is charge at 100%, the text shows that, but the color of the battery itself appears to only show about 60%. When I open up to edit the colors of the widget, I have orange set to come on at 75% and red to come on at 25% and it appears in the actual icon that they won’t come on until about 30% and 10% respectively. I have screen captures if needed. Any help would be appreciated.

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Vladimir Baryshnikov Reply:
October 8th, 2010 at 12:14 PM

Yes, screenshots will be good. Contact us please by email: curvefish@gmail.com

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Can we get a white option for color? Thanks in advance.

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Market barcode:
http://qrcode.kaywa.com/img.php?s=8&d=market%3A%2F%2Fsearch%3Fq%3Dpname%3Acom.curvefish.batterylife
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Direct download file barcode
http://qrcode.kaywa.com/img.php?s=8&d=http%3A%2F%2Fcurvefish.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2009%2F06%2FBatteryLife_v1.3.2.apk

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Please add 1×1 version of this widget, and setting, that allow to choose how battery looks horizontal or vertical!

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Pros: Good “overview” page indicating remaining battery life in hours. Advanced settings of task manager shows available memory (nice feature).
Cons: This app did not accurately indicate any of my open apps in the “active apps” listing of “task manager,” while, at the same time, another app I use (Advanced Task Killer/also free) listed 10 open apps.
Plan: I will still use BatteryLife app for the “pros” I listed, but I still rely on Advanced Task Killer (ATK) to shut down apps I don’t use. I welcome any ideas on an app that is even better than ATK, especially if I can somehow change settings so some of these apps don’t automatically open themselves up on my HTC Incredible phone.

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Vladimir!

Thanks for the great widget! However, can I request a feature?

Upon using this widget, I immediately felt a shortage of information on remaining battery time that this widget could easily provide.

It would be very convenient if the widget, along with percents, could also show the approximate time remaining until the battery is fully discharged.

I see two methods that can be used to calculate that:

1. The widget can take the remaining time as the “time remaining in the current operation mode”, which is better explained by example.

Suppose that up to the current moment, the phone was turned off and the battery discharged by one percent in 2 hours, then the widget shows that the time remaining until the battery is fully discharged is * 2 hours

If the user turns the screen on, starts to actively use the phone and the battery discharged by one percent in 3 minutes, the widget immediately changes its information and says that the time remaining is * 3 minutes

2. The other, in my opinion, more accurate method to calculate the remaining operating time may be the following:

The widget takes:
T – time that elapsed from the before last charge to the last charge,
P – percents of charge that were consumed between the two charges

and then calculates the time until the full discharge as follows:

* P / T

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Personally I think both methods can be used. And the widget can show both indicators:

- The expected average working time (method 2)
and
- The expected working time in the current mode of operation (method 1)

In this case, users will be able to get the best of both techniques. First, they will know how much time it usually takes for a battery to fully discharge and how much time they still have to use the phone.

Secondly, they will know how long the battery will last when used actively, for example, without switching off the screen.

Thank you.

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When my Nexus S is fully charged, this app (1.3.3) says that my battery is only 94%. Any solution to “calibrate” it?

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Hi,

Just a simple question, how accurate is the widget to determine the kind of battery that is used?
I replaced my original battery, which is Li-Polymer to Li-Ion but the widget still tells me its Li-Polymer …?

kind regards,

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Vladimir Baryshnikov Reply:
May 12th, 2011 at 2:08 AM

Hi. It reads information from the android. It can’t get information directly from battery.

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