Battery life "%" indicator missing

Just got my wife's new 16 GB iPhone up and running. No functional issues, but there is no battery % indicator in the upper right corner like mine has.
Any ideas?

Have you set it to show this in the settings?
http://manuals.info.apple.com/enUS/iPhone_UserGuide.pdf

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My battery life indicator is frozen at full after update to version 3.0 - its not moving and will just randomly die...it says its full when charging too - does anyone else have this problem/any ideas? Thanks

I have this problem also since V3 - but it is just a display problem, the actual battery life is fine. It most commonly fails to recharge (on the display menubar) though the display on full-screen is fine. A reset restores it but the problem will recur.
More seriously the same problem affects phone connection; we are near the edge of coverage and the menubar will show 'no coverage' even in a strong signal until the phone is reset (it never changes on its own). Sometimes it seems this is true (that is the phone does not connect) other times it seems just the display.

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Is there a more 'in depth' battery life indicator anywhere?
The battery icon top left isn't that accurate- i'd like to be able to see how much in terms of time i have left- is that do-able?
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There are utilities for other phones that do this. Yes, it's useful.
Some are pretty simple: just look at the current average discharge rate and level, then figure out the remaining time. Pretty much like your car's computer telling you how many miles of gas are left at your current rate of consumption.
Pretty neat to watch the remaining time change as you turn on/off features.
One thing that surprises me is that no iPhone tech site has yet put a meter in line with the battery to find out once and for all how much power the different radios / features actually use. I've done calculations, but they're pretty rough. I mean, I've seen people claiming that WiFi uses more power than EDGE, and I don't believe it, unless they simply do more surfing because the WiFi is faster.

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hi all. Just bought the apple Bluetooth headset yesterday. After it is fully charged the battery life indicator drops to half after only being on stanby for about 15 minutes. I tried fully draining it and recharging but no difference. Is this normal? Thanks.

Same issue on two "old" (with dock) Apple BT Headsets purchased on 3G release day. Returned and exchanged for 2 "new" ones (no dock, $30 refund) two weeks later. The new headsets have the same abysmal battery life. Note, however, that the battery life indicator is not terribly accurate - after dropping into the red by the end of the day, if left on standby mine doesn't actually run out of power and shut down for almost 48 hours.
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Has anyone experienced problems with the battery meter (and battery life in general) on the E75? I consistantly have half to 3/4 charge then the meter drops drastically to about 2 bars, then dies shortly after. This has become increasingly annoying as I never really know how long the phone has left, and have to constantly keep it on the charger.
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I have the same issue. The battery life indicator just isn't accurate at all.
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Others have posted about a problem similar to mine but I haven't found a solution yet...The indicator of my battery life always says 81% and has the symbol of being plugged in even when it's not. Plugging it in doesn't help, and I've also tried changing the energy settings. It's unsettling not knowing how much battery power I have left and I'm reluctant to mess with the computer by actually taking the battery out. Any suggestions?
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If the indicator is "stuck" like this even when the magsafe adapter is not plugged in then there's only one or two things you could try.
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Try deleting the Bluetooth preference file.
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This is very common on Nokia phones. The battery indicator is not linear.
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Lumia 710 Remaining Battery Life % Not Correct

I've had my Lumia 710 for a few months now and over the past week the remaining battery life percentage is way wrong. For instance, one day I noticed my battery icon was really low so I went to check the % and it said it was -4%. I was even able to make a 10 minute call and it never died on me. A few days ago I had about 70% but when I checked the phone a few minutes later it was around 10%. A few times I've even had it die on me and it never gives me the critical battery warning.
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Hi stephwin,
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Sounds like they may be something wrong with the battery, especially the sudden battery "deaths" without any prior warning indicate that. We would advise you to visit your local Nokia Care point and let them have a look. Nokia Lumia 710 has a removable battery, so changing it should not be too much of a hassle if it comes to that.
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I've been using Arch on my desktop for a few years now, and as of a couple months ago I'm also running Arch on my HP dv8000t laptop. When i log into Gnome 3 the battery/charge indicator is missing from the icons in the upper right-hand corner. I know it was there for some time just after installing Arch, but since then it seems to have randomly disappeared. I thought I killed it with an update but since nobody else seems to have this problem, I'm not too sure any more. To further confuse things, GDM shows the battery indicator just fine, it's only after I log in that it is missing. This seems to point to it being a problem with some configuration in my home directory, but I don't know enough about gnome 3 to know what hidden folder to look under. Running 'acpi' from the command line gives me a battery percent remaining, but not a remaining time estimate (however, I've never had any OS on this laptop give a remaining time estimate so that's not a big problem for me).
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Yes,
After Mavericks install, your "time remaining" WILL BE INACCURATE until you do a SMC reset in many case
SMC reset
Shut down the computer.
Plug in the MagSafe power adapter to a power source, connecting it to the Mac if its not already connected.
On the built-in keyboard, press the (left side) Shift-Control-Option keys and the power button at the same time.
Release all the keys and the power button at the same time.
Press the power button to turn on the computer.
There is a HUGE distinction here about someone getting less batt. life in actuality .......or are they just reading the "time remaining" and using that as a true indicator which is certainly is not.
Ive seen 3 notebooks after SMC reset jump 4+ hours in "time remaining" and slowly climb after 3+ full charge cycles.
Until things settle down, nobody should trust what the 'time remaining' says.

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