iOS 4.2.1 on iPhone 3G showing numeric battery percentage!!!!

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iOS 4.2.1 on iPhone 3G showing numeric battery percentage!!!!

YES! your guess is right. It was jailbroken. However, I restored the phone to factory settings yesterday and then restored from the most current backup. I did this cause jailbreaking made my phone lag very bad. Everything that came from cydia and cydia itself are gone. What remains is a normal iPhone 3g running iOS 4.2.1 However, the battery percentage continues to show in the status bar! Can someone guide me to get the normal conditions please...

Neerav

MacBook 7,1, Mac OS X (10.6.7), iPhone 3G - iOS 4.2.1

Posted on May 16, 2011 11:03 PM

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Answer 1

turingtest2

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May 17, 2011 12:05 AM in response to AceNeerav

I have the battery percentage shown in the status bar of my never-jailbroken iPhone 3GS. Perhaps it is supposed to be there?

tt2

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Answer 2

May 17, 2011 12:25 AM in response to AceNeerav

u can take that off in settngs

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Ed85

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May 17, 2011 12:47 AM in response to AceNeerav

Yeah it's an option you can turn on. I personally have it on, but if you want to switch it off, go to Settings > General > Usage > then there should be a slider at the top to turn the option on / off.

Hope this helps! 🙂

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AceNeerav Author

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May 17, 2011 1:25 AM in response to Ed85

As I said… its an iPhone 3G and not a 3G-S. It was not supposed to be there. And as expected, the setting to turn it off is also not there in Settings.app>general>usage.

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AceNeerav Author

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May 30, 2011 4:42 AM in response to AceNeerav

and now… iPhone 4 not hiding it when battery percentage is turned off. probably because i restored from the old iPhone 3g backup. please help….

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Squabbi

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May 30, 2011 4:45 AM in response to AceNeerav

All you need to do is to restore the iPhone 3G and NOT from a backup, what that Cydia tweak does it edits your com.apple.springboard file and that gets saved with the backup. I don't think having battery percentage is bad though!

Squabbi,

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AceNeerav Author

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May 30, 2011 4:50 AM in response to Squabbi

Hello, After restoring to factory settings I would want to restore from a backup inorder to be able to use my apps with their most current info. like games… i dont want to start over everything again. so i restore from the most current backup after factory restoring it. but as soon as i restore from the most current back it brings back the percentage.

is there any way i can edit this com.apple.springboard and remove that tweak?

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Squabbi

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May 30, 2011 5:05 AM in response to AceNeerav

Yes, there are ways to remove the tweak by using ibackupbot for windows , sorry ! No Mac support. And ibackupbot will find the most recent backup of your devices and select your backup you want to use. Then find that plist and double click on it. It will as you to register but click cancel. You will now see a plist editor, try and find an array/ line that says something about SBBattery or something and remove that line or set the value to FALSE then press F7 or F11 and it should ask you if you want to restore your device and click yes. Your iPhone will not loose any data. Only the plist should of been changed. Sorry for this long guide! :) You might also have a look around the Internet on "How to get battery percentage on iPhone without jailbreaking. When they say add this string/text, do the opposite, find and remove the text they ask you to put in. Or as I said before you can just change the value to false.

Squabbi,

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