ATTENTION: Also read HowTo: Get Battery Percentage on iPhone 2G/3G Running OS 3.0
- SSH into your iphone
- Go to /System/Library/CoreServices/Springboard.app/
- Download the file M68AP.plist
- Open the file using a text editor or a plist editor
- Add a Boolean value under the capabilities dictionary
- Boolean Key = gas-gauge-battery / Boolean Value = true
- Save and upload the file to the same directory that it was originally in
- Go onto the iPhone and respring
- Now go to the application Settings -> General -> Usage and there will be a Battery Percentage toggle and you can use it to enable battery percentage next to battery icon in top-right corner.
props to wgm214
Also read:
- iPhone OS 3.0 Episode I: HowTo Enable Internet Tethering
- iPhone OS 3.0 Episode II: HowTo enable Video-Recording Interface on iPhone 2G/3G
- iPhone OS 3.0 Episode IV: HowTo Split iPod Into Music & Video or Vice-Versa
- HowTo: Enable Numeric Battery in iPhone FW 3.0
April 19th, 2009 at 1:08 am
It seems that when I try and enable the battery switch the usage menu disappears. I have the boolean set exactly like you do. Please help.
April 22nd, 2009 at 1:58 am
I have exactly the same problem… and I need the Usage Menu… (but I want battery percentage)
April 22nd, 2009 at 2:29 am
ill ask some1 to come and comment, he can help you….
April 22nd, 2009 at 3:03 am
I found the problem : it's the un-unified iPod. I changed true/false for over 6 times… and I understood : When it's true, there's a Usage menu, but when it's false… this usage menu disappears.
April 22nd, 2009 at 7:56 am
So you have to have both enabled at the same time? I tried that and the usage menu disappeared for me. Did you get this to work?
April 22nd, 2009 at 8:13 am
Dr. Puttingham did it. i sent him a mail, and asked him to come and comment and help you guys….
April 23rd, 2009 at 6:16 am
Thanks. Hope the answer comes soon!
April 23rd, 2009 at 11:34 pm
This didn't work for me. I used Notepad in Windows. I added this:
<key>gas-gauge- battery</key>
<true/>
I saved it, put the new one on my iPhone, respringed, and there wasn't anything new in Usage.
April 26th, 2009 at 9:42 am
can someone give me info on how to SSH into my iPhone 3G that is NOT jailbroken?! i'd really like to have the percentage meter in the top corner! lol
thanks in advance
April 26th, 2009 at 4:03 pm
as far as i know, you cant SSH into a non-jailbroken device…
April 26th, 2009 at 4:23 pm
Still no answer! This Doctor guy seems to be BSing and doesn't know shit.
April 26th, 2009 at 4:34 pm
maybe, but i know he did it. i would help you, but i said it before and i say it again: i do not have OS 3. I do not need beta tester versions. I depend too much on my phone to test shit on it. so….
you can also try this : http://www.funkyspacemonkey.com/howto-enable-nume...
May 2nd, 2009 at 8:29 am
It seems that in beta 4 this works.
May 10th, 2009 at 7:24 pm
The good Doctor DOES know shit! And he even knows Jack Schitt, trust me! Sorry, been busy. I own an IT Consulting business and I also am a MOD at xda-developers.com, sorry.
the m68ap.plist method doesn't appear to work anymore, at least with my beta 5. The com.apple.springboard.plist did work, however I never seem to get the toggle in the Usage menu anymore, dunno why and really don't care. I just need that numeric is all, nuff said.
BTW, my iphonebrowser doesn't seem to work anymore with Windows 7 and beta 5. Went back to Iphone Tunnel Suite and all is well.
As an aside, I like to wish a Hapy Mother's Day to all you muthers out there (and you knwo who you are, LMAO!)
Regards,
Steven
June 29th, 2009 at 10:02 am
You can't SSH into a non jailbroken iPhone. You need to jailbreak and install OpenSSH in Cydia.