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[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Tanker Bob:
My testing showed somewhat different results for kbattery 1.1.9.13. I used the CPU Usage function of SKTools 4.4.7.12. It shows kbattery 1.1.9.13 consistently at 0.4, jumping to 1.1 regularly. Ariel Battery Monitor, OTOH, bounces between 0.1 and 0.0, very occasionally jumping to 1.7 for just one refresh cycle. It jumps at a time when other processes are also jumping. In kbattery 1.1.9.13, there's no way to turn off the clock to see if that makes a difference. So I tried kbattery 1.03. It sits at 1.7% CPU for a long time, then jumps to 2.3% and stays there for a while, then down to 1.7 for a while, etc. Ouch.

Overall, Ariel Battery Monitor takes a bit more memory, but far less CPU time on the average than either kbattery 1.03 or 1.1.9.13. I'm sticking with Ariel for now.

For an additional reference, VistaHide Battery Gauge sits at 0.

Late update: I've settled on Batti 2.4. It works fine, has the nice bar like VistaHide, but also has info screens available on tapping it. That's what I was seeking for my Tilt 2. CPU usage sits a 0, and the RAM footprint is small.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Cricri:
As I said, my results were for my Toshiba e800 which runs WM2003SE. Since Ariel Battery is advertised as being WM5/6 compatible, maybe later machines are better off with Ariel Battery (I cannot test this hypothesis).

It is also possible to switch to a battery icon only in the settings, but since I overlay KBattery on the original time, I prefer to stick to battery+time myself, which is another reason for me to use KBattery instead of Ariel Battery which surprisingly has this option removed.

I don't have SKTools (it's not freeware IIRC), but checking again in TaskMgr, and to be more precise, KBattery uses 0.09% most of the time, with peaks at 0.18 % 0.27% on my machine. Surprisingly, now KBattery seems to be using 9KB, even after a soft reset. I tried displaying battery only, and this has no effect on memory and CPU usage.

My only gripe is that I try to overlay perfectly the icon over the time, but depending on the current time, KBattery's icon seem to move slightly, meaning that alignment is not consistently covering the original time. I'm going to try the battery only icon, and see if alignment changes with that.

*EDIT* BTW, I'm using the latest official release v1.0.3, I might try v1.1.9.13.

*EDIT2* No wonder, v1.1.9.13 is bloated with a contextual menu making the executable twice as large, and the date in the contextual menu is russian anyway. Back to good old v1.0.3 for me, I'll stick with the original!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Bloodgod:
nice app i'm going to try it now.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Fingaluna:
Tilt2

Note that this works well on the AT&T Tilt2.

I am also using the 1% battery increment driver (EU Version) available here: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=527006 and ArielBattery works nicely with this.

Nice app. Cute kid.

:D
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] aufche:
thanks sir...i will try when i buy new smartphone
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Enchanter:
so cute , :o

his smile event look more manly than Tom cruise ,
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] gstuber1:
Smartphone

I would love a version that works on Smartphones. I have a Samsung Blackjack 2 w/ WM6 and was wondering why it wouldn't work. I assume that is the reason???
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] ionrage:
Transparent background?

Is there any way to make the background transparent? Using it on my HD2. Thanks
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] sunny127:
There is currently no support for transparent background, cause the windows icon will make the number unclear.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Filcher:
I've modified KBattery 1.0.3 a bit to work better with 6.5.1. In addition to the cutoff text issue that people have described, I noticed that the about and setup dialogs wouldn't close unless you used the hardware back button. This could be an issue specific to me, but I added buttons in the dialogs to close them just in case it happened to other people. This should hold us over until a new version of Ariel Battery is available.

This was tested using Windows Mobile build 28014 and things seem to be working fine.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] fabiohty:
Hi! It works with HTC Fuze? Thanks.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Glenvis:
HTC Touch Pro

I'm running WM 6.1 on an HTC Touch Pro from Sprint.

When I go to setup the left and right portion of the screen is cropped - can't us it. Even if I switch to landscape mode, the left and right are cropped. How do I get to this part of the setup screen?

Beyond this, all seems to work well - looks great on screen - nice job!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Glenvis:
Never mind...

I just figured out that grabbing the title bar with the stylus you can move the window.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] khaytsus:
Are there any projects that do this same or very similar battery display but is a service? I'm attempting to reduce running apps because I keep having apps killed. :(
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] shahriar5252:
Thanks so much for this v2.1 of Ariel Battery. I have always wanted a simple way of keeping wm6's native clock in the title bar of wm6, but Microsoft was idiotically making me substitute the clock for the battery icon. You application allows me to have both. I had seen the previous versions, but they did not have the capability of being placed anywhere I chose on the title bar, and I did not want to place it on the MS menu icon on the left side. In the new version, I just used settings to move it over to the right a little where the useless names of programs are written in the title bar. Thank you.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] errantsun:
Ariel Battery won't install on my BJ2 with WM 6.1

Get the following error message when attempting to execute on from an XP machine:

\ArielBattery2.1.exe is not a valid Win32 application.

Am I doing something wrong?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] sunny127:
Ariel Battery is for Windows CE ( Windows Mobile ) devices only ...
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] aura69:
Some issues with Omnia II or WM6.5

Hi,

I have been using this wonderful app on my Omnia and WM6.1 without any problems for the past years!

Recently after installing it on my Omnia II running on WM6.5, the app has crashed numerous times. Not sure if there is a conflict with the new phone or the new OS.

Have anyone experience the same?

Many Thanks!

Aura
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] eazy2001x:
Would you mind creating a new version of this program that you could also adjust the height (as in up and down). Since the start menu is larger in windows 6.5.5 at the bottom and smaller at the top. Your program does not line up correct with the new version of windows. I have been using your program since forever and would love to continue to use it. even though it does not line up correctly.. I still use it ;-)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] trunkstm:
Nice App!!

Thanks
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] zazahan:
Thanks! I've been using it on Touch Pro2, and it works great!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] sucro:
hahahaa crazy video, i like it :)

and normally tnx for useful app!

Greetzz
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] ciribic:
superb little application! works great on my omnia II i8000 wm 6.5 pro.

It would be nice to have an option to choose "low battery" and "critical battery" percentage, and their coresponding color. Like in the picure in attachment.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] keff:
Cool - I love one-purpose low-footprint apps like this :)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] methefool:
no u're not.

I got the same problem.

I'm running WM 6.1 on htc ozone (maple/snap) from vzw. non-touch screen also.

Any suggestions ?

:(
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] gogu12002:
Thanks!+Thanks!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] geoponer:
This app is so amazing that I am using it until now, having changed 2-3 WM devices. I am still using it in an HTC Touch HD (WM 6.5, HTC Sense 2.5). I never liked the original windows battery-bar and I have never found a better alternative to Ariel Battery.

I was wondering about the calibration of the battery meter. It initially says 350, so I suppose it uses the windows battery gauge and transform it to a corresponding percentage. Is there a way to calibrate the meter by changing the value 350?

Thank you again for this wonderful app!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] sunny127:
Thanks a lot for the nice post :) So many people downloaded Ariel battery from this site and many other sites over the years. Now I have a baby girl as well, maybe I'll write an app at her name for Android or something :)

As to your question, the 350 number is only for calculating the remaining time in minutes until the battery is drained. It is really not accurate, cause in some modes the phone spends a lot of battery juce , more than in other modes. It was something experimental. Don't recommend it.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Techvir:
Wow good to see ur reply and that too in favour of android. Looking forward to see some software for android.

my Dell Streak using XDA App
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] meteorain08:
Wow, your son looks cute :) anyway, thanks for da program :)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] GordonFulcrum:
This is a great piece of software. Exactly what I was looking for. Many thanks.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] cs962018:
Just wanted to say that I like your little battery app. I was wondering if you could make a change (add a registry entry) to disable the click event on the icon? This way I can controll if a user could make changes to the battery program or not. Or if you could make the code available and I can make the change myself.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Erel1971:
Accidently found your programm. What a great piece of software. Fast, simple but very effective. Thanks for this great programm!

Regards,

Rogier

The Netherlands
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] sunny127:
Hi all.

I've now added the source code of Ariel battery 2.1 in the downloads section.

Many things have changed since I wrote this app back in 2008.

I now have a new baby girl. Maybe she will want one day an app of her own, but looks I'll be writing it on Android :)

BTW , I have an android phone and hate it, cause I just can't sync my outlook with the Android Callendar, contacts and tasks. So now I carry arround two huge phones ... My XDA II and Samsung Galaxy S I9000, using the old XDA II for callendar and contacts, and samsung for Angry birds.

Another thing that has changed is that I am going thrue a divorce, and live seperated from my wife for a year now :(

At least I get to see the kids twice a week for a couple of hours each time.

Hope everything will be good one day.

Enjoy the source code guys.

-Sunny.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] MrGoodtunes:
Sad to read of your divorce, glad you can still see kids, and very happy Ariel Battery is in a new (to me) version that works with Wm6.5! Went through a divorce myself, had to watch son grow from a distance, but 2nd marriage still going strong more than 30 years. Great pic of Ariel himself, all big eyed and smiling. But when I scrolled down and saw he was holding a PDA, that's when I got all big eyed, smiling, and burst out laughing.

Used ABv2 for awhile back about 3 years ago, when playing with custom 6.1 ROMs that had issues with time versus battery at top right, together with phone popping up unexpectedly. When official 6.1 became available, issue was solved well enough that I took AB out. But now I'm attempting an upgrade to 6.5 and running into that old issue. So it is really nice that ABv2.1 is still here to help me out. Many thanks, muchly appreciated.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] biglatvian:
Works like a champ - thank-you!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] sunny127:
There were no problem reported so far with HTC.

Regarding your questions:

1. It is very odd you can't move the Ariel battery icon.

2. Maybe you have installed a program that really closes other programs when you click ok or x. In that case, you should pu Ariel battery monitor in excluded list.

3. To hide the default battery icon, you can move the ariel battery to cover it. ( However you said u have a problem with moving ... odd ...)

Good luck.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] bluemetalaxe:
i find solutions:

1. I could change the position of the icon in the registry.

2. I close the septup menu by pressing the Hide-button.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] DaVince:
Nice app! small and simple. Perfect. :cool:
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] sunny127:
I am glad you found a walkaround.

If any one of you guys have problems with the proggie, please feel free to post your questions.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] sunny127:
Your wishes are now reality! The new version (v2.0) has exactly what you recommended.

Thank you guys for posting requests, to make the program better :)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] justauser:
Like the app, one suggestion

I like this app and am a user, so thanks. When I tap the meter I get the screen with memory use and estimated time remaining. How about adding a tap and hold that brings up the Start Menu.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] sunny127:
I presume you want the black and white version for htc touch and similar devices with black themes by default. Anyway, the new Ariel battery version ( v2.0 ) allows to choose colors manually, and by that, make them all black and white, or with shades of gray.

Enjoy.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] sunny127:
When you click it, the program shows memory info. In order to get to the start menu, the area at the right of the icon should be clicked.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] j.a:
Excellent Meter and Congrats on the Beautiful Baby!

This may sound like a strange question but:

How can I get the meter to run without showing up under the Today menu (running programs)? Or this even possible?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] keithl-Mq:
won't work with Moto Q9

I love the idea of this batt meter, but can't get it to work with Moto Q9. It has Win mobile 6, but no touchscreen. By not working I mean I can't get it to display on the home screen. If I look at the icon with file manager, it shows batt pwr in icon, so the hooks to the system work.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] sunny127:
This proggie is not designed to work on smart phones, however if more ppl will ask for it, the issue can be reconsidered :)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] sunny127:
A tap to open start menu

This sounds like a good idea. Maybe even swap your suggested taps, so that a short tap will open the start menu, and a long tap will open the Ariel battery options. I will consider it for a future version.

Thanks.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] sunny127:
"Running programs"

Ariel battery is not listed in the "Running programs" list in WM5, however it is visible there in WM6. In the future version, I hope to keep it unlisted in WM6 too.

Thanks for bringing this up! :)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] j.a:
Cool. Thanks for the info.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] rleejr79:
Under "Tools" it shows "Estimated Battery lifetime". I have the xv6800, how is this calculated? Is it just a standard or right on? Good app, especially for those that upgraded to DCD's ROM that does not have a battery indicator!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] sunny127:
To use the "Estimated Battery lifetime" feature, you should input the maximum minutes your phone can last between recharges.

Ariel battery only estimates it, very roughly.

To really estimate the time that a phone can last, many details has to be taken to account, and most of all, a program that can estimate that time good enough has to be a "learning" type program ( wich monitors your phone during various usage types, like making a phone call, surfing , standby etc .. ) and after some period of time, should be able to estimate the remaining time pretty good, specifically for your phone.

Ariel battery does not have such an aglorythm, however, you gave me an idea for a new program/feature :)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] wuvs:
All I wanna say is "Thank You!" for this great app. It is very useful and it does not eat up my PDA's resources!

Thanks!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] daxliniere:
Yeah, they're healthy, but not if you eat em every day.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] sunny127:
Good suggestion. Will seriously consider it in a future version.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] saito:
Good programm

hey guys, i've installed this programm and i must say, this is a best thing i ever installed on my xda, best!!!

thanks to Ariel
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] tmz:
I like your battery monitor, I just have two questions about it? Does the percentage show underneath the battery like on the picture? And, does it go in increments of 1% or 5% or 10%?

Thank You, TMZ
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] thakidc:
congrats on being a dad!

could u possibly post a .cab file too cuz ufortunately i dont own a pc so .exe's r out of the question i would greatly appreciate it
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] sunny127:
Why would you need it to be a CAB file? Just as you copy a cab file to your PPC, you can copy the EXE to your PPC. :confused:
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] thakidc:
Wow i did not know that! thank u sooo much i thought u had to downloads exe s on a pc n active sync them over did not no i simply needed to extract well any how it works good on my mogul/6800 but is there ne specific place to put it i jus threw it in windows
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] sunny127:
My suggestion is to put the exe file in the .\Windows\Startup directory, so it runs itself every soft reset. Of Course you can put the exe file anywhere, create a shortcut to it, and put the shortcut in the Startup directory.

Both ways will do the job.

:)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] sunny127:
1) What you see is what you get :cool:

2) It goes in increments of 1% .
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] climberscout:
Wonderful job, working great and easy to slide on the tool bar !
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] tmknight:
Brilliant! :D

Any chance of making a 240x240 version (I presume just reduce the size of the data bars and hide button) so that the bottom of the data screen is not obscured by the "hide" button?

Cheers!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] sunny127:
The proggie is not supposed to run on smartphones ... did you manage to run it on your treo ?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] zaharakis:
great app mate :)

thank u ;)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] tmknight:
Yep, runs fine on my Treo 750 (which technically is not a smartphone in the sense that a Blackjack or Moto Q are smartphones).

Reducing the size of the hide button or placing it in the softbutton bar at the bottom would do the trick nicely. Even better would be a simple tap of the main portion of the screen to hide would be slick since there is no other action taking place in the main screen other than the display of info (not including the softbutton bar).

Cheers!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] sunny127:
Thanks for the info.

Hope to include 240X240 screen support on a future version.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] vtcx:
Great. Running on my mogul, like the fact that I can choose the colors and make it fade into the task bar. This may sound lame, but I use the "start" icon a lot, so I had to dump it on top of the "EV" icon. If I put it next to it, I could not see the missed calls, messages icons when they show up. It would be cool if it can take that last place in the icon bar and move to the left automatically when a new icon shows up (like missed calls) and then move back. But so far Great! Tell Dr. Evil to spare us!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] tmknight:
Put it back over your start button and tap just to the right of the icon to get to your start menu...sunny127 was definitely thinking forward on that one :)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] bullevon:
This is a very nice little (emphasis on little) program! Have you thought about making a version for the today screen as opposed to the tool bar?

Also, your son is adorable. :D
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] sunny127:
There are many battery monitor programs for the today screen. Ariel battery came to present a solution for not being able to see the battery level at all times, for example, while using the phone ( at phone enabled devices ), when the today screen is not seen.

Thanks for the complement :)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] omarnone:
My only question is does it take a lot of power? battery juice?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] omarnone:
also how do you install this? i'm tryinf to install it on my tilt phone?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] sunny127:
Ariel battery is designed to take as little resources as possible, so it consumes only about 0.001% CPU ( very little ), therefore consumes negligible battery power.:cool:

Just copy the ArielBattery.exe file to the "/Windows/StartUp" folder on your PPC. No windows install is needed.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] omarnone:
Got it,Thanks works awesome i love it!!!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] ephestione:
just downloaded this in version 2 with my ipaq and the idea is great, I may even use it instead of wisbar's battery bar, the problem I have with it tho is that it's not compatible with realvga's 128 dpi, it shows off-size.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] black_shadow69:
Congratulations sir.....
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] monyozt:
great job mate :D
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] hofshi:
Thank you very much and congrats!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] big10:
Nice! Is it possible to link the memory meter to the device's memory control module (for WM2003SE ) , so that it will be possible to change the memory allocation ?

Thanks
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] sunny127:
There are so many memory types, on so many devices .... pretty hard to cover'em all
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jchrist:
Nice app!! Congrats on the new addition. Hope all is well for you.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] nenadr:
suggestion

Very nice app ... great work....

couple of suggestions for some future version:

1. I'm using it on TyTN II (Kiser) and I have set batt icon position to show over original battery icon. Is is working great in portrait mode, but when I change to a landscape mode (by sliding keyboard out) it covers some other icons and not the originall battery icon (i.e. it stays on the portrait possition and gets missplaced for a landscape). It should be a simple possition recalc in "orientation change event/notification".

2. Is it possible to make the battery icons skinnabe ? I very much like look and shape of original OS icons (with small bars in it), and i would love ArielBatt to be able to use them just with color coding for remaining capacity and <no>% indicator.

Thanks, Nenad
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] ElHisbo:
nice app... thx

it is possible, to add another memory meter on the taskbar...?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] mkpugh:
install issue

Hi, I have downloaded and extracted the zip file at the start of the thread to my laptop but when I try to install it I get a message "not a valid win32 application". How do I install this application? Mike:confused:
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] hotboy_92:
Great app. Thanks!

I may be going mad, but I thought somewhere I saw something just like this that could monitor other things, like memory or CPU usage. Anyone know? The main thing I'd like to see, as well as battery, is CPU usage.

Cheers

Rob
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] wyzepro:
:eek: man Curious George is gonna get you!!.......you guys have been really getting under his skin here lately..... :p
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] nir36:
that's wonderful.. thank you
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] sunny127:
Ariel battery is strictly a PPC application. It is not supposed to run on any other OS, like Windows XP:cool:
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] nir36:
LOL!!!!!!!!! someoe actually asked that?

that certainly goes into the questions sticky thread.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] sunny127:
The CPU usage can be monitored via a program named "XCPUScalar", which can also overclock your device, so it runs much faster ( or slower if underclocked ).

However, writing a program to monitor the CPU speed is very tricky. If you find a program other then the one I've mentioned, please share the info.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] pafimal:
:cool:many thanks for this excellent app bro..