Battery for Windows Phone 8, an attractive battery performance tracker

Battery for Windows Phone 8

There are enough of battery performance apps available for our Windows Phones. You lot can now add Battery to the list of Windows Phone 8 apps that can chart, runway and continue yous updated on how much life your Windows Phone battery has left.

But Bombardment will get a little farther past offering shortcuts to key Windows Telephone settings and the option to fill-in and share your battery performance data. It's one of the more feature rich battery performance apps in the Windows Telephone Shop and is easily worth the time to bank check out.

The chief screen for Battery has your battery level and performance estimates at the top of the screen. A functioning graph fills the center of the main screen and vi shortcut tiles line the lesser.

Battery

In tapping/property the chart display, y'all will pull up options to salve the chart as a picture, send the charging history to email, and relieve/fill-in/restore the data to/from SkyDrive.

Shortcut tiles include admission to your WiFi, Bluetooth, Location Services, Cellular, and Airplane Fashion settings also as a flashlight utility. Forth the very bottom of the principal screen you lot'll find four control buttons. They access the settings, pull up your battery statistics, pulls upwards a page list the shortcut tiles, and one to make a donation to the programmer.

The page listing the shortcut tiles allows yous to pivot the tile to your Start Screen and modify the tile color (default is to your electric current Windows Phone theme). But tap/concord on the tile you desire to customize. If yous don't want or demand the shortcut tiles, y'all can disable them besides.

Battery

Settings for Bombardment encompass general problems such every bit the color theme for the master screen and Live Tile, choosing your battery icon for the Live Tile, and access the Lockscreen settings to display detailed status from Battery. Yous besides have settings to determine what notifications you'd similar active and a few settings on the chart brandish. There'due south a smashing colour setting for Battery, dynamic, that changes the theme color from green to orange to blood-red as the battery level decreases.

Live Tiles back up all 3 sizes with the wide tile displaying the amount of time left on your battery, time since last accuse, and the last tile update time/appointment. Live Tiles refresh every 30 minutes and the full battery level will be displayed as 99 due to Bone limitations.

All totaled, Battery is a rather squeamish bombardment app for your Windows Phone. In just using information technology for a short time, Battery can hold it's ain confronting many of the like Windows Phone viii apps in the store.

Battery is a free app with the option to donate $1.29 to the programmer to show your appreciation. You can pick upwards your copy of Battery here in the Windows Phone Shop.

Thanks, Nawzil, for the tip!

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