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 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:
- Very small in memory: 1 Kb in memory (check it with a task manager).
- No CPU usage: 0.00 % CPU usage, check it with a task manager).
- Very small on disk: BattClock.exe 17 Kb on disk, BattClock.CAB 16 Kb on disk.
- Very efficient resource usage (clock update and measuring of battery percentage).
- No updates with screen off (only listen for screen on event), so no battery usage/drain by BattClock.
- Show Time and Battery percentage above the top bar (default).
- Automatic detect settings the first time started, dependent of the screen resolution and colour.
- Time in format HH:MM or H:MM or with other separator, 12 hour or 24 hour clock.
- Battery indicator in percentage, indication if charging (default battery percentage character % is changed into tilde character ~).
- 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!
- BattClock info can be a combination of above (Date, Time, Battery Percentage and Free memory) with a maximum of 3 lines out of 4 possibilities.
- Location and size: Clock width, height, X position, Y position and FontSize configurable. Separate settings for Portrait or Landscape. X position from the left configurable by negative value.
- Color: Background and Text (Foreground) color configurable. Battery Percentage and Free memory can change color when a medium or low threshold has reached (3 colors configurable).
- Looks: Separators for time and date configurable, battery percentage character configurable (on power, on battery), free memory character configurable.
- Automatic runtime adaption of BattClock on Portrait or Landscape mode (with negative ClockX setting).
- Configurable realtime (settings changes reflecting immediatly in BattClock) via separate BattConfig program (required: .NET 2.0 or higher, does not work on Smartphone though).
- Configurable via registry settings.
- 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 or earlier????? Please let me know if it works on your phone!
- Also works now on Windows Mobile Standard edition (version 1.6 onwards).
- AppToDate support.
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.
If you like this project, please consider donate to the developer.
Update Description:
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.
