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Nokia Battery Monitor – blog post part 1/2
powersave_mode | 15 October, 2010 10:59
Overview
Nokia has recognised that users of smartphones would like to have better tools for monitoring their battery usage. It can be difficult to understand which applications are draining the battery and how the usage of the device will impact operating times. To increase this understanding Nokia Battery Monitor will be published for Symbian. It will be available soon in Ovi Store for free download.
Today, the remaining energy of Nokia mobile devices is displayed with battery bars in the top right corner of the screen. Granularity of this information is limited and it is difficult to estimate the actual remaining usage time based on this. Charging is indicated only with scrolling battery bars without any estimate of remaining charging time or the level of charge in the battery. Nokia Battery Monitor will fill these gaps by providing more detailed estimates for remaining battery capacity, various activities usage time and charging time.
Features
Nokia Battery Monitor consists of a home screen widget (Figure 1) and a full screen application (Figure 2). The widget is used for visualization of remaining battery capacity and activity estimates. The full screen application provides more details and statistics of energy usage.
Remaining battery capacity is visualized with a large high resolution battery bar and also shown in percentages. Remaining usage time estimates are provided for voice call, web browsing, music playback and the overall device usage. Remaining charging time of the battery is estimated when the charger is connected. The usage statistics include distribution of overall and daily energy consumption of different applications.
Figure 1: Nokia Battery Monitor home screen widget
Figure 1 shows example views of Nokia Battery Monitor home screen widget. The view on the left shows the remaining usage time for voice calls with the remaining battery capacity. The view on the right shows the remaining charging time until the battery is full.
Figure 2: Nokia Battery Monitor full screen mode
Figure 2 shows the full screen application view of Nokia Battery Monitor. The application consists of three tabs. ‘Estimates’ -view shows a summary of activity estimates and remaining battery capacity. ‘Statistics’ -view shows the distribution of overall and daily energy consumption. 'Info' -view provides instructions and other general information about the application.
Coming soon
More details will be published in blog post part 2/2 when Nokia Battery Monitor is available for download in Ovi Store.
Nokia Battery Monitor has been developed in collaboration between
Nokia and VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland. We would really like
to hear what you think about it. Please send your feedback to: batterymonitor@nokia.com
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Re: Nokia Battery Monitor – blog post part 1/2
powersave_mode | 19/10/2010, 16:07
Thank you for your feedback. Unfortunately, the first version of Nokia Battery Monitor will only support devices with touch screen functionality. We are investigating possibilities for adding support for older models in future versions.
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WinthropWyman | 22/10/2010, 10:34
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At last a usefull battery monitor
aremesal | 22/10/2010, 11:10
Thank you very much in advance, ...I hope that with this widget I would know why some days my Mini N97 get hot and dawn dead... Any beta tester needed?
Thank again.
Nokia Battery
Megous | 26/10/2010, 10:20
Nokia Battery Monitor is gave us very good information about the battery and use of energy. i like that :)
Re: Nokia Battery Monitor – blog post part 1/2
Megous | 26/10/2010, 10:22
Megous Infosystem
Nokia Battery
TheAër | 26/10/2010, 20:30
Looks great! I just can't wait for it...
Re: Nokia Battery Monitor – blog post part 1/2
maxcommodity1 | 27/10/2010, 11:32
Unfortunately Phonetinfo gives the same information as Device Status which is as fake as the bars...
http://www.maxcommodity.com/commodity/subscription-plans/sure-shot/
Re: Nokia Battery Monitor – blog post part 1/2
wei419719693 | 29/10/2010, 09:25
本人很是期待！
The solar charger for Nokia
Sabrinalee107 | 12/11/2010, 10:52
The solar charger for Nokia phones can be used in order to charge the cell phone.
http://hubpages.com/hub/Benefits-Of-Solar-Powered-Cell-Phone-Chargers
Not Working on N97 Mini
Jaxx89 | 13/11/2010, 22:56
For some reason it is not working on my N97 Mini FW v12.0.110
IT gives this pop up twice. On clicking ok both the times it just goes all white and exits.
http://img242.imageshack.us/img242/8113/scr000054.jpg
Can anyone help me out on what is wrong???
bug
hinkefuss25 | 14/11/2010, 12:57
i installed the app and deinstalled it fast because the energy onitor is not working anymore.
but now i cant use the energy profiler and the battery monitor anymore.
the energy profiler says "all measurements not possible. channel is reserved by another application." so its unusuable now.
the battery monitor is deinstalled and i cant reinstall it because the ovi-store dont let me download it again.
this is crap. how to fix this?
problem with n8
elmasry5055 | 10/01/2011, 08:11
i love that program realy
but i have one problem make me so sad
:-(
in active use it always 0 minute
i try nbm v 1.00
v 1.1
v 1.2
alllll the same problem
please help
Fulfilment
TeofilUrban | 28/01/2011, 07:47
The thing is you might be pleased that Britain is not a member of the Eurozone, and the Euro from your opinion is going down. Yes, Britain is better than Greece for two reasons. First, the debts are so high, but the bond rate is still low. Second, Britain can devalue the Pound.
Fulfilment
JSH
JSHollis | 19/10/2010, 07:20
It looks terriffic. Congrats! I am waiting impatiently more info!
Please will be this application also for S60 9.3rd FP2 (in my case 5630XM) ?
Thank you for answer
jsh