Description:
BattClock is a simple app that replaces the battery indicator with clock plus percentage battery level.
Screenshots:
Show Time and Battery percentage above the top bar (default).
Show 6 items horizontally with different colors, from left to right: Weeknumber (red), Time (yellow), Seconds and AM/PM (blue), Battery temperature (green), Battery Current (purple) and Battery Voltage (orange).
Same as above, but TouchLockPro taking care of 3 other items: Battery Percentage (first row), Free Memory (seconds row) and CPU% (third row).
Show Battery percentage, temperature and Current above the top bar. Note that the original time of Windows Mobile is shown.
Show Time and CPU percentage above the top bar.
Show Date, Time and Battery.
Show Time, Free Memory and Battery percentages with different colors dependent on threshold values.
BattClock over Windows Logo with background image .
Features (stripes, time, battery, date, free memory, CPU, Battery Temperature, Battery Current, Battery Voltage, Registry keys, Free Date/Time formats).
Information shown:
- Show Time and Battery percentage above the top bar (default).
- Time in format HH:MM or H:MM or with other separator, 12 hour or 24 hour clock.
- Date in format DD-MM or MM-DD or with other separator and with or without leading zeros.
- Free memory percentage indicator or MB, updated once per second, great to see if you have memory leaks!
- CPU percentage indicator, updated once per second, great to see how much work your phone has to do!
- Battery indicator in percentage, indication if charging (default battery percentage character % is changed into tilde character ~).
- Battery Current in mA, updated once per second. Note that cached values are asked, so the battery driver may only update after several seconds.
- Battery Current Force in mA, updated once per second. Note that non-cached values are asked, so the battery driver may give more up-to-date values, but may also drain more battery.
- Battery Temperature in Celsius degrees.
- Battery Voltage in mV.
- 3 Freely configurable Date/Time formats including week number, month name, day name, seconds, PM/AM.
- 3 Freely configurable registry keys, default phone strength, missed call count and unread SMS.
- 6 info items configurable for a BattClock area (e.g. horizontal or for circular display, see below).
- 6 fontsizes configurable for above.
- 6 colors configurable, one color per info item. Battery Percentage and Free memory can change color when a medium or low threshold has reached (3 colors configurable).
- Gradient Background color configurable.
- Circular changing the last info item, e.g. showing items 2 till 6 for some time in a circular fashion in row 2.
- Automatic runtime adaption of BattClock on Portrait or Landscape mode (with negative ClockX setting or separate Landscape settings).
- BattClock content can also be shown divided horizontally, e.g. above the Program text.
6 BattClock stripes, per BattClock stripe the following can be configured:
- Stripe can indicate Battery%, Free Memory%, CPU% or Registry Key 1/2/3 (default Phone signal strength).
- the length of the stripe indicates the percentage left.
- Background color.
- 3 configurable stripe colors dependent on the thresholds.
- 3 different thresholds (low, medium, high).
- X, Y, Width and Height can be configured.
- Per 10% a few pixels are not drawn, so you have a good feeling of the percentage left.
- Option to draw a solid line.
Other features:
- Possibility to configure 6 items to log to a registry or log to file (BattClock.csv), so no need to display those items.
- Option to automatically detect taskbar background color changes and take over the background color of a configurable pixel location (great for changing solid theme colors).
- Possibility to configure the number of seconds before the battery is polled (default 60 seconds).
- Update values at power on/resume immediately.
- Refactored code, so the BattClock size in memory and performance is on par with previous versions, despite the new features introduced.
- Very small in memory: 1 Kb in memory (check it with a task manager).
- Almost no CPU usage: 0.00 % CPU usage, check it with a task manager.
- Very small on disk: BattClock.exe 37 Kb on disk.
- Very efficient resource usage despite the lot of possible features.
- Automatic detect settings the first time started, dependent of the screen resolution and colour.
Easy configuration:
- Configurable realtime, settings changes reflected immediately in BattClock.
- Configurable via registry settings.
- Visual feedback if a button is pressed.
- Content configurable.
- Location configurable. Clock width, height, X position, Y position. Separate settings for Portrait or Landscape. X position from the left configurable by negative value.
- Fontsizes configurable per displayed item.
- Separators/Indicators configurable per item.
- Colors configurable per item. Background and Text (Foreground) color configurable.
- Log configurable to log to registry and/or Log file.
- Other settings configurable.
- Reset, Import and Export settings.
- Moved BattClock settings to registry key HKCU\Software\ZuinigeRijder\BattClock so BattClock can be used in combination with TouchLockPro.
- Renamed registry keys, so they are better grouped together for people editing via registry.
Supported phones:
- Supported resolutions: 240x320, 240x240, 480x480. 480x640, 480x800, etc.
- Supported Windows Mobile 6 Classic.
- Supported Windows Mobile 6 Standard.
- Supported Windows Mobile 6 Professional.
- Supported Windows Mobile 6.5.
- Supported Windows Mobile 5.
- Also works now on Windows Mobile Standard edition (version 1.6 onwards).
- Separate BattConfig program requires .NET 2.0 or higher, does not work on Smartphone, so then you need to use a Registry editor.
BattConfig program translations:
- Added translations possibilities for BattConfig. Some translations may be outdated due to the numerous new features, you can help by providing (updated) translations, easy via Excel spreadsheet.
- Russian translations, thanks to Vadim Bogaiskov.
- Chinese Simplified translations, thanks to zhongzw.
- Chinese Traditional translations, thanks to victorchen101.
- Spanish translation, thanks to animalote.
- French translations, thanks to YoLoLo.
- Italian translations, thanks to tigro11 and ephestione.
- Norwegian translations, thanks to longice.
- Hebrew translations, thanks to Som30ne.
- Polish translations, thanks to pupakota alias nothin.
- Dutch translation, thanks to myself.
Installation:
- Copy the BattClock.x.x.CAB file from your computer to your phone.
- Go via the explorer to the location where you copied the .CAB file and click on it to start installation.
- Can be installed on the Phone memory or Memory card.
- A possible previous version of BattClock is automatically deinstalled.
- The CAB file may be removed from the phone after installation.
- Alternatively, you can install AppToDate application and install future updates via AppToDate program.
- If you do not want to install BattClock.CAB but just want to try without harming your phone, you can download separately the standalone BattClock.exe and BattConfig.exe, copy somewhere to your phone and just start there.
How to use:
BattClock will just auto start at boot or after installation. You can stop/start BattClock via Programs folder by executing BattClock.exe.
How to configure?
BattClock automatic detects settings the first time started, dependent of the screen resolution and colour. Often these automatic defaults gives already the wanted result.
From version 1.5 there is a separate BattConfig.exe, so you do not need a registry editor anymore. Configuration can be done by executing BattConfig.exe from Programs menu. Note that with BattConfig you can configure the settings for Portrait and Landscape. For configuring Landscape, make sure your phone is in Landscape orientation and start BattConfig. The Landscape settings are then adapted (and you see the BattClock changing appropriate).
If you want to reset to defaults, just remove the registry tree: HKCU\Software\ZuinigeRijder and start BattClock again (via Programs folder, run BattClock to disable running program and run again). BattClock will then recompute the defaults.
You can also overrule manually the settings.
More information and screenshots here.
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Update Description:
v2.1.2 (13-05-2010):
- Fixed bug that Stripe settings were incorrectly changed when switching to next/previous stripe item.
- When battery is charging and battery stripe is enabled, alternate between the configured high and medium and low color each second.
- Added Arabic translations, thanks to khaeid.
v2.1.1 (09-05-2010):
- Fixed bug that a freeze of the Start button was possible when a wrong Window Name was set.
- Added option to specify the Max value for a stripe, so the value shown does not need to be a percentage.
- Added 2 extra stripe possibilities, for RegKey 2 and RegKey 3 (so now 6 stripes possible).
- Updated Russian translations, thanks to Vadim Bogaiskov.
Note that people wanting to have a stripe for Battery Current, Battery Temperature or Battery Voltage, they can configure to log those values (see BattConfig Log) and configure RegKey1, RegKey2 and/or Regkey3 to point to the Log:
- HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\ZuinigeRijder\Status\BatteryTemp.
- HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\ZuinigeRijder\Status\BatteryCurrent.
- HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\ZuinigeRijder\Status\BatteryVoltage.
v2.1 (08-05-2010):
- Fixed bug that Battery charge indicator was not shown when also other Battery items were shown.
- Fixed bug that if DetectBackground was enabled, the CPU was hogging after some time.
- Fixed bug that BattClock.log.txt was no longer made when debug was enabled.
- Added Font selection for installed fonts (Fontname, Bold/Regular).
- Added possibility to specify a gradient color as background color (select top left and right bottom background color, vertical gradient).
- Color picker now makes a screen capture of the upper part, so you can better select the matching taskbar colors (e.g. for gradient colors).
- Added customized OpenFileDialog, so Background images can be selected in all directories, including Windows.
- Changed problem that right to left languages like Hebrew text is no longer occupied by +/- buttons.
- Updated Hebrew translations, thanks to Som30ne.
- Added Greek translations, thanks to padvou.
- Changed default colors for low, medium, high into red, yellow, green.
Added 4 BattClock stripes, per BattClock stripe the following can be configured:
- Stripe can indicate Battery%, Free Memory%, CPU% or Registry Key 1 (default Phone signal strength).
- The length of the stripe indicates the percentage left.
- Background color.
- 3 configurable stripe colors dependent on the thresholds.
- 3 different thresholds (low, medium, high).
- X, Y, Width and Height can be configured.
- Per 10% a few pixels are not drawn, so you have a good feeling of the percentage left.
- Option to draw a solid line.
Added experimental possibility:
- To subclass other windows than taskbar window, so you can put the BattClock items e.g. on your home screen instead of the taskbar.
- Note that the Window Name DesktopExplorerWindow is on my Touch Diamond the Home screen (works in Windows Mobile standard Today screen and Touch Flo 3D).
v2.0.1 (19-04-2010):
- Fixed bug that daylight saving time was not handled correctly in new DateTime format strings.
- Made workaround for wcsftime, so the Day and Month names are using the default localization strings.
- Added Hebrew translations, thanks to Som30ne.
- Added Polish translations, thanks to pupakota alias nothin.
- Updated Russian translations, thanks to Vadim Bogaiskov.
v2.0 (16-04-2010):
- Visual feedback if a button is pressed.
- Added option to show Battery Voltage.
- Added option to show date/time in a specified format, including week number, month name, day name, seconds, PM/AM (3 separate free formats configurable).
- Added option to show a registry key (3 registry keys configurable), default phone strength, missed call count and unread SMS.
- Added option to automatic detect taskbar background color changes and take over the background color of a configurable pixel location.
- Removed limitation that free memory and free memory MB could not be shown at the same time.
- Possibility to configure the number of seconds before the battery is polled (default 60 seconds).
- Update values at power on/resume immediately.
- Added option to show Battery Current with forced readout (not using cached batterydriver values, but still dependent on battery driver).
- Possibility to configure 6 info items for a BattClock area (e.g. horizontal or for circular display, see below).
- Possibility to configure 6 fontsizes for above.
- Possibility to configure 6 colors (one color per info item).
- Possibility to configure circular changing the last info item (e.g. showing items 2 till 6 for some time in a circular fashion in row 2).
- Possibility to configure 6 items to log to a registry or log to file (BattClock.csv).
- Refactored code, so the BattClock size and performance is on par with previous version, despite the new features introduced.
- Moved BattClock settings to registry key HKCU\Software\ZuinigeRijder\BattClock so BattClock can be used in combination with TouchLockPro.
- Renamed registry keys, so they are better grouped together for people editing via registry.
- Added translations possibilities for BattConfig, however, some translations may be outdated due to the numerous new features.
- Russian translations, thanks to Vadim Bogaiskov.
- Chinese Simplified translations, thanks to zhongzw.
- Chinese Traditional translations, thanks to victorchen101.
- Spanish translation, thanks to animalote.
- French translations, thanks to YoLoLo.
- Italian translations, thanks to tigro11 and ephestione.
- Dutch translation, thanks to myself.
v1.9 (23-02-2010):
- Possibly to show the info in columns instead of rows (option Divide Horizontally).
- Added option to show Battery Temperature (updated once per minute).
- Added option to show Battery Current in mA (updated once per second), great to see power consumption.
- Show CPU also if it getidletime is greater than 100.
v1.8.1 (18-02-2010):
- Fixed update problems people reported.
- Reset the CPU counters at wake up from a deep sleep so the CPU% is more accurate.
- New BattClock icons, thanks to jaguaralani.
- Added current CPU to registry key HKCU\Software\ZuinigeRijder\Status\CPU, request from howdykeith, so you can e.g. add mortscript actions to it.
- Added current FreeMemory to registry key HKCU\Software\ZuinigeRijder\Status\FreeMemory, so you can e.g. add mortscript actions to it when memory becomes low.
- Added current Battery % to registry key HKCU\Software\ZuinigeRijder\Status\Battery, so you can e.g. add mortscript actions to it when battery becomes low.
v1.8 (15-02-2010):
- Added option to show CPU usage percentage.
- Color of CPU info configurable.
- CPU indicator configurable (default %).
- Make sure to handle backlight on also as ScreenOn, to avoid possible problems with updating the BattClock.
- Thresholds for Battery and Free memory separate configurable.
v1.7 (07-02-2010):
- Made BattClock work on WM5 devices.
- Make sure that BattClock is updated, also on phones not having backlight.
- Date and Time color separate configurable.
v1.6 (21-01-2010):
- Make BattConfig part of BattClock.CAB, so no extra download necessary (separate download still available, if you do not want to use the CAB install).
- Fix problem when going back from About screen that settings are gone.
- Make it possible to import/export settings in About Screen.
- Fix to find the Taskbar window, works now also for Mobile Standard edition (Tray instead of HHTaskBar).
- Fontsize per info line configurable, text room is divided dependent on fontsize settings.
- Option to show free memory in MB instead of %.
- Make BattConfig more finger friendly.
- Solved bug that more than 1 character could not be displayed in Separators/Indicator strings (mixed up char* and WCHAR*).
v1.5 (15-01-2010):
- Note that some registry settings have been changed into new ones for version 1.5, because of greater flexibility and easier configuration.
- Some small adaptions to save a very small amount of battery (use resources as efficient as possible), probably you cannot measure it.
- Do not update clock and battery content with screen off and when no power plugged in (the latter because you can still use it with MyMobiler with screen off and power on).
- Do not get the latest information from the battery device driver, but use cached information that may be out-of-date by several seconds.
- When an PBT_POWERINFOCHANGE battery percentage update is notified, also reset the polling time to 3 minutes, to avoid getting extra battery info.
- Removed boot/startup delay.
- Separate BattClock Config program.
- Added option to see free memory.
- Added option to show info divided into 3 lines.
- Option font color to be dependent on the battery/memory status.
- Add icon possibility as background and draw info on top of it, good for people having not a solid color or nicer looking icon alike.
- Added settings BattClockInfo1, BattClockInfo2, BattClockInfo3, BattClockVersion, MemoryIndicator, LowThreshold, MediumThreshold, LowColor, MediumColor, HighColor.
- Removed settings ShowTime, ShowBattery, DateDDMM, DateMMDD, Clock12, and UseLeadingZeros (replaced by BattClockInfo1, BattClockInfo2 and BattClockInfo3).
v1.4 (10-01-2010):
- Solved problem that battery charging indicator was not switched till next minute.
- Solved problem that battery percentage was not switched from standby (-1%) to the actual battery percentage till next minute.
v1.3 (08-01-2010):
- Wait 10 seconds before creating BattClock to avoid boot problems.
- Fixed problem that clock was not updated immediately when coming out of suspend mode.
- Added setting UseLeadingZeros.
- Added setting TimeSeparator.
- Added setting DateSeparator.
- Added setting OnPowerIndicator.
- Added setting OnBatteryIndicator.
- Added setting ClockXLandscape.
- Added setting ClockYLandscape.
- Added setting ClockHeightLandscape.
- Added setting ClockWidthLandscape.
- Added setting FontSizeLandscape.
v1.2 (06-01-2010):
- BattClock standalone version based on TouchLockPro instead of StylusLock for extra features.
- Automatic detect settings the first time started, dependent of the screen resolution and colour.
- Date possibility.
- 12 hour clock possibility.
- Only Date, Time or Battery Percentage possibility.
- FontSize possibility.
- Indicator if charging (percentage character % is changed into tilde character ~).
- Fixed AppToDate support.
