Oh man thanks the right side of my LCD is broken and I couldn't have seen how much battery I had left but since this plugin shows the percent on the left side now I can see how much battery I have left while playing great app

(20/03/2011 12:42 PM)DSpider Wrote:  This is a very bad idea. Measuring it constantly can have an impact on battery life. Why do you think Sony went with 3 bars instead of percentages ? Come to think of it, everything that measures the battery in percentages is wrong for portable devices. Especially if it does this continuously and in the background ! Because every time you look at it, it won't tell you the exact remaining time, but an abstract approximation.

And that approximation is sometimes WAY off course, depending very much on the battery's estimated lifespan, based on the materials used and sometimes the place it was built (China vs Japan for instance).

Devices try to take it into account but it's not an exact science. For instance if the battery was charged 200 times, the battery's microchip tells the PSP to take into account the erosion principle (which states that every battery has a minimum lifespan, after which it will hold less and less charge), except batteries made in Japan are usually of a better quality. But the chip tells it to take it into account anyway. Which can seriously mess up reading "attempts" in percentages.

Think about it. If Sony thought it was a good idea they would've added it a long, long time ago. Plugins like this I consider to be useless. Same for that DayViewer-whatchamacallit that "tells" the battery percentage. It's complete bull.

I don't know why you spent so much time to write such a complain about a thing your not even forced to use. and its a really useful app anyway !