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I think it'd be great if somebody could come up with a new battery gauge to replace the current icon with just a percentage being shown. Seems like that'd be simple??
Actually, I think the gauge is not correct. I looked at the status and it indicated the battery are about 40% left while the gauge shown over 50% ~ 60%. Very inaccurate.
I also noticed this issue. The visual display of the battery icon looks like there is more battery left. The percentages are always lower. I also would love to get the percent of battery left instead of the icon.
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Sign me up if we can figure this out! there are apps in rhetorically marketplace that add this to the notification bar but a complete replacement would be nice.
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My battery gauge is wayy off too. It shows like 75% and I have like 40% remaining.
Nm, can't read tonight
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There are several apps on the marketplace for that: Gauge Battery Widget, Battery Monitor......
saint168 said:
There are several apps on the marketplace for that: Gauge Battery Widget, Battery Monitor......
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I use a free app called "battery Idicator." works perfect.
I think the battery icon is only showing 4 or 5 stages of battery life, and it's very underhanded because it shows more than what it actually has.
a full battery is > 75%
slight sliver is 74% - 50%
orange is 49% - 25%
red is < 25%
I would love to have the icon replaced with something more accurate.
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I use a free app called "battery Idicator." works perfect.
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I agree, battery indicator is great but I would prefer an icon replacing the actual incon instead of having two battery icon
yeah same, would be better!
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I agree, battery indicator is great but I would prefer an icon replacing the actual incon instead of having two battery icon
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yea, i dont know that ive seen that tho, only on custom ROMs. Im sure someone will chime in to correct me if im wrong tho!
Battery Level is pretty handy. Not a lot of features, just puts a percentage in the notification bar. What I like about it is that it's a box with the number, and not a stylized battery, so it looks less redundant with the stock battery meter still displayed.
The battery indicator sucks. It shows 80% charge at 41%, and 50% at 39. The steps it takes are way too large.
I use Battery Status Pro to get a status bar icon with an accurate percentage, and would love to figure out how to get rid of the stock icon.
There is a mod here:
http://forum.sdx-developers.com/themes/(mod)remove-battery-icon-from-status-bar/
...but the odds of it working on our Captivate are low. I haven't tried it out of fear of bricking the device, even though it's exactly what I'm looking for.
This is nothing new with samsung. It was the opposite on Eternity 50~60+% showed 2 out of 5 bars.
I use battery widget, shows 5 bars on the home screen with the percentage clearly overlapping the bars for easy read ability and when you tap it, it pops up a window with 4 buttons that are shortcuts to the settings page that will allow you to turn off wifi, gps, and bluetooth and a button to bring you to the display settings.
I no longer have to go into settings -> about phone -> status just to chekc my actual battery percentage.
It will never get fixed by samsung so no sense in complaining, find an alternative you like.
When I Have Fewer Battery Bars, My Power Drops Quickly Why Is That On My SGH-i897 (Captivate) Phone?
The battery icon display consists of seven visible levels. Some levels have different values depending upon on pattern of use.
From a fully charged state, L6 is 100%, L5 is 80%, L4 is 60%, L3 is 40%, L2 is 25%, L1 is 10%, and L0 is 5%.
Guys, I am using a metamorph theme called ClearBar http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=743358
The battery icon there changes according to colour etc. and seems more fair and accurate, though still a little optimistic.
The problem I think is because the steps are too large: 100, 80, 60, 40, 20 and 0.
I have 'Gauge battery Widget' (1x) on my main home screen. I calibrated against the Captivate's own gauge (Settings > About Phone > Status ... see Battery level) and they match 100% (perhaps the widget just reports that value graphically?). But, the cartoon of the battery status in the banner at the top of the screen overstates battery life until one get unto the orange and red zones (above those zones, who really cares?).
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Guys, I am using a metamorph theme called ClearBar
The battery icon there changes according to colour etc. and seems more fair and accurate, though still a little optimistic.
The problem I think is because the steps are too large: 100, 80, 60, 40, 20 and 0.
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In addition to this you can also use the BlackBar theme that was posted here a little while ago, it uses the same metamorph theme so it changes your icon completely. Ill throw up a link when i get on my desk top but the tread should be towards the top of the apps theme forum.
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This is my first post here. Am kinda new to the forum
Well, i know this issue have been said over and over. But i didn't get anything out of other threads
I have my new gnote on stock ICS for 6 weeks now. It's battery drain rate was about 1 % every 5 minutes on browsing. Then one day i installed game "angry gran 2" from 1mobile market, because it said on playstore not available for ur country. And since that moment the battery went crazy. Drain 1 % every 2 or 3 minutes. I uninstalled it a day later and the problem is still there. This was about 10 days ago
I checked running apps nothing is different than normal
I dunt use face book app
I uninstalled samsung push service
GPS and location services are always off
The mobile goes into deep sleep very well no problem with that acc to CPU spy. The processor which usually works is 200 mhz then sometomes 1200 mhz
All settings since the day i bought it are set to save energy "lowest brightness, sync is off .... Etc."
Now the battery does not work notmally unless every charge i remove the battery for few minutes and put it back' i did this today before i turn off my phone battery was 92 % remived battery put it back and it's 87% ! :S
Yester day about twice after going to sleep i find batter increased 1%
Can you help me please to spot where the problem is ?
I have better battery stats but i dunt understand it
And one more question please, does having large number of apps even if not running in the background cause battery drain ?
Thanks all will greatly appreciate any help
+1 on that. My note's battery runs really fast and I'm not even using it for hardcore gaming. The battery gets really hot at times too.
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update: screen shot from better battery stats
Check these screenshots from better battery stats is this rate normal ?
Hi! Once I had a similar battery issue, but in my case it was after flashing a custom rom. Battery started draining much faster than usual. And sometimes battery percentage jumped up too. Have you tried to remove/insert battery, then fully charge your phone and when fully charged run "Battery Calibration" app from Play Store? Have a feeling it's not the solution for your battery issue, maybe a long shot, but still maybe worth a try if you haven't done that already?
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opiujn said:
Hi! Once I had a similar battery issue, but in my case it was after flashing a custom rom. Battery started draining much faster than usual. And sometimes battery percentage jumped up too. Have you tried to remove/insert battery, then fully charge your phone and when fully charged run "Battery Calibration" app from Play Store? Have a feeling it's not the solution for your battery issue, maybe a long shot, but still maybe worth a try if you haven't done that already?
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Well i haven't tried battery calibration yet. Will try it what to lose !
I searched for it it needs rooted device. Do you know some app does not need root ?
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Well i haven't tried battery calibration yet. Will try it what to lose !
I searched for it it needs rooted device. Do you know some app does not need root ?
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There's no such thing as battery calibration apps, it's a con, you just put them through a few cycles and they're fully charged, modifying the battery stats does nothing for the use of the physical battery.
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There's no such thing as battery calibration apps, it's a con, you just put them through a few cycles and they're fully charged, modifying the battery stats does nothing for the use of the physical battery.
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That is correct. The name of the app might be misleading. It does not do anything to the battery's physical condition at all.
The problem I had was that my "battery" suddenly started to drain very fast according to the battery icon in status bar. It dropped about 1%/min during screen off, and even faster with screen on. I charged my phone to 100% about 6 or 7 times. But as soon as I unplugged the cable I had that very quick drain. I guess the battery itself had much more capacity left than shown, it is in good condition... but that didn't help me because my note turned off when the battery icon showed it was low on % and I had to start charging again. Then I ran this app, which only thing it does is to simply delete batterystats.bin file if I understand it correctly. I don't know much about these stuff, but after that the usage time of my phone is back to normal again
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Well i haven't tried battery calibration yet. Will try it what to lose !
I searched for it it needs rooted device. Do you know some app does not need root ?
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I just had a look at Play Store and all the apps I saw that does remove batterystats seem to need root. Probably it is a system file you can't touch without root access then Also, the battery issue you have might be caused by something else.
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Well i wish it can be solved this way ... Coz other option am.gonna take is downgrading to GB then factory reset as i understood this won't brick my phone if I got it carrectly
May be it's calibration thing ... Check the attatched photo the batteru since 3 a.m. To 9 a.m. Is almost at same level or increasing .. Maybe it's some kinda of system calibratoon of battery indicator against battery fast drain while working .. I dunt know
In system settings > battery: what is reported there?
Have you tried boot in "safe mode" to see if it still drain the same way? It will exclude most of user installed stuff as your downloaded apps and such from running.
But remember you might loose some user settings on your phone when booting normal again after safe mode.
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Hmm iam have somethings like ur Problem
My Battery is Very Good
Not Drain anymore But Have something when iam go to sleep my battery 65% when iam wake up i found battery 66%
I dont know what is the problem but someone said to me some advanced to this Problem Read this Topic
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1874642
But Did you have this problem ( Battery sometimes Incrase 1% wih itself )
Portgas-D-Asce said:
Hmm iam have somethings like ur Problem
My Battery is Very Good
Not Drain anymore But Have something when iam go to sleep my battery 65% when iam wake up i found battery 66%
I dont know what is the problem but someone said to me some advanced to this Problem Read this Topic
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1874642
But Did you have this problem ( Battery sometimes Incrase 1% wih itself )
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Can u give me ur battery plz
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There's no such thing as battery calibration apps, it's a con, you just put them through a few cycles and they're fully charged, modifying the battery stats does nothing for the use of the physical battery.
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Portgas-D-Asce said:
Hmm iam have somethings like ur Problem
My Battery is Very Good
Not Drain anymore But Have something when iam go to sleep my battery 65% when iam wake up i found battery 66%
I dont know what is the problem but someone said to me some advanced to this Problem Read this Topic
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1874642
But Did you have this problem ( Battery sometimes Incrase 1% wih itself )
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although battery calibration app does nothing to do the battery hardware, but it does calibrate on how the battery percentage is being read by your phone. It wiped your battery status, allowing 100% charged to be read as 100% charged. sometimes, due to various reason (ie. flashing without fully charging), your battery status will be inaccurately read by your phone. For example, you charge your phone upto 2000, havent completely charged to the max capacity (2500) but the phone already read 2000 as 100%. and because of this, it will look like your battery drain really fast or the percentage jumping up and down. i guess.
wiping battery status requires you to have root access. thus, this app will only work when you have rooted your phone.
it is true that after a few cycles (not sure how many times) of charging the battery status may go back normal but hey, if we can make sure to do this calibration with only one cycle, why we have to do more?
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although battery calibration app does nothing to do the battery hardware, but it does calibrate on how the battery percentage is being read by your phone. It wiped your battery status, allowing 100% charged to be read as 100% charged. sometimes, due to various reason (ie. flashing without fully charging), your battery status will be inaccurately read by your phone. For example, you charge your phone upto 2000, havent completely charged to the max capacity (2500) but the phone already read 2000 as 100%. and because of this, it will look like your battery drain really fast or the percentage jumping up and down. i guess.
wiping battery status requires you to have root access. thus, this app will only work when you have rooted your phone.
it is true that after a few cycles (not sure how many times) of charging the battery status may go back normal but hey, if we can make sure to do this calibration with only one cycle, why we have to do more?
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Huh
Now iam understand my problem is solved m maybe because iam didnt charge phone when iam changed my rom
And when iam charged it for first time on this custom rom i see problem( battery incrase with itself) solved Thanks God.
Portgas-D-Asce said:
Hmm iam have somethings like ur Problem
My Battery is Very Good
Not Drain anymore But Have something when iam go to sleep my battery 65% when iam wake up i found battery 66%
I dont know what is the problem but someone said to me some advanced to this Problem Read this Topic
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1874642
But Did you have this problem ( Battery sometimes Incrase 1% wih itself )
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My battery is crazy. Yep in deep sleep some times it increase 1 % .... On the other hand while working with the phone it drains very rabidly at a rate 3-3.5 % per minute .... Either on wifi or not ... It's normal rate used to be 5 % per minute till the day iinstalled that game and the problem persists even after i removed it
As for the explanation in the thread ptovided it does not make sense to me .. Because every time the battery jumps up the battery drain becomes soooooo rapid afterwards
offdrment son,
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In system settings > battery: what is reported there?
Have you tried boot in "safe mode" to see if it still drain the same way? It will exclude most of user installed stuff as your downloaded apps and such from running.
But remember you might loose some user settings on your phone when booting normal again after safe mode.
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In battery settings there's nothing other than usual at all
I will try safe mood and see what i get ... But should i work with it till the battery ends or i can use it for a couple of hours and notice the batt. Drain rate ?
hahuhe said:
although battery calibration app does nothing to do the battery hardware, but it does calibrate on how the battery percentage is being read by your phone. It wiped your battery status, allowing 100% charged to be read as 100% charged. sometimes, due to various reason (ie. flashing without fully charging), your battery status will be inaccurately read by your phone. For example, you charge your phone upto 2000, havent completely charged to the max capacity (2500) but the phone already read 2000 as 100%. and because of this, it will look like your battery drain really fast or the percentage jumping up and down. i guess.
wiping battery status requires you to have root access. thus, this app will only work when you have rooted your phone.
it is true that after a few cycles (not sure how many times) of charging the battery status may go back normal but hey, if we can make sure to do this calibration with only one cycle, why we have to do more?
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I was trying to find a way to root my phone but i can't find any data on the web ! For some reason that way of rooting tgat was on xda deleted ...
But I have a question ... I always wait rill my phone completely empty and charge it till completely full ... I leave it in the plug about an hour till the complete sign shows in notification bar
Does this mean that way that my battery is already calibrated and i shouldn't try to bother to root the phone and get the app ?
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I was trying to find a way to root my phone but i can't find any data on the web ! For some reason that way of rooting tgat was on xda deleted ...
But I have a question ... I always wait rill my phone completely empty and charge it till completely full ... I leave it in the plug about an hour till the complete sign shows in notification bar
Does this mean that way that my battery is already calibrated and i shouldn't try to bother to root the phone and get the app ?
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There's Dr ketans thread on rooting in the stickies of development section, it's very simple.
After 1 or two full charge cycles, the battery will recalibrate itself, no need for any app, they don't do anything anyway.
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opiujn said:
In system settings > battery: what is reported there?
Have you tried boot in "safe mode" to see if it still drain the same way? It will exclude most of user installed stuff as your downloaded apps and such from running.
But remember you might loose some user settings on your phone when booting normal again after safe mode.
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I tried safe mode .. And yeah performance is a little better though still not like before .. it bought me an extra minute per 1% drain .. So i dunt know what that says ? I checked running processes the only difference that facebook and avast antivirus dunt run in safe mode .. Which were probably always there since i got the phone nothing new..
Hello everyone, need some advice. I am unable to know if my battery is functioning normal or should i get it replaced. Please see the atached picture. You will see that my battery draining off within 4hrs with 2G data on. It has been happening from past 2 weeks. Just want to know if it is normal on 2G. Or should i get my battery replaced with a new one. I have read somewhere that with 2G battery of Galaxy Note lasts for about 6 to 7 hrs. Mine goes for just 4 hrs max.
Few details about my usage:
1. Data sync is not on all the time. But for every half an hour i keep data sync on for 30 for 40 seconds max to retrive mails.
2. I dont not watch any videos, online or on mobile.
3. I dont play games at all though i have around 20 games bcoz of this poor battery life.
4. I do not do video calling.
5. With the above usage and little bit of online videos using wifi, I get around 3 to 4 hrs of battery life.
P. M. Vinay Kumar,
HTC P3400i (sold),
Samsung Galaxy S, rooted(sold),
Samsung Galaxy Note (using now),
Stock ICS, Rooted
By the time i posted my prob on XDA, battery dropped from 32% to 18% !!!
P. M. Vinay Kumar,
HTC P3400i (sold),
Samsung Galaxy S, rooted(sold),
Samsung Galaxy Note (using now),
Stock ICS, Rooted
I'm using rugglez New Year's gift (cm10 on new BL, BB30a)
I found my battery status not drop on each % and it will decrease only the screen is on. i can use the setting battery to see the history but it is not in detail and it will be erased after phone is shut down.
Also, using battery widget monitor can't read the actual status too, when i woke up and the phone is shut down, BWM apps history only shows a drop from 82% to 0% in one second.
what can be done to solve this problem?
i just want the battery status shows the actual condition even the screen is off for the monitoring purpose.
i remember that i have seen solution on DJ ICS post, but i don't know can the patch be applied on cm10 new BL
frapopo said:
I'm using rugglez New Year's gift (cm10 on new BL, BB30a)
I found my battery status not drop on each % and it will decrease only the screen is on. i can use the setting battery to see the history but it is not in detail and it will be erased after phone is shut down.
Also, using battery widget monitor can't read the actual status too, when i woke up and the phone is shut down, BWM apps history only shows a drop from 82% to 0% in one second.
what can be done to solve this problem?
i just want the battery status shows the actual condition even the screen is off for the monitoring purpose.
i remember that i have seen solution on DJ ICS post, but i don't know can the patch be applied on cm10 new BL
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Try the app betterbatterystats (paid), and try to let battery go to 0%, fully charge it, go into CWM and clear battery stats
Is it possible to change the battery level threshold when the low battery level warning pops up? My phone battery is draining pretty fast towards the last 30%, so sometimes it just turns off before the low battery warning pops up. So I want to adjust the level threshold to something like 40% so I get the warning earlier.
I don't think it's possible on a stock ROM. You are on a stock ROM aren't you?
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I don't think it's possible on a stock ROM. You are on a stock ROM aren't you?
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I'm rooted, bootloader unlocked, and on ARHD 8x.
BB88 said:
I'm rooted, bootloader unlocked, and on ARHD 8x.
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Why not using an app from the play store to warn you at the desired % ? I remember battery solo widget offered this option and I'm sure there are a lot of apps that can do the same. You can also disable the stock low battery warning with xposed and sense toolbox.
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alray's suggestion is great because apparently you can't do it without a 3rd party app.
The only native alternative I can think of is to set extreme power saving mode to activate at 30% battery instead of 10%(the default setting).
alray said:
Why not using an app from the play store to warn you at the desired % ? I remember battery solo widget offered this option and I'm sure there are a lot of apps that can do the same. You can also disable the stock low battery warning with xposed and sense toolbox.
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Didn't think about an app/widget to do this. Thanked!
Though, I found that battery solo widget can only go to 25%. I want something that can get higher for the warning, because sometimes my battery will just die in a couple minutes after 30%.
BB88 said:
Didn't think about an app/widget to do this. Thanked!
Though, I found that battery solo widget can only go to 25%. I want something that can get higher for the warning, because sometimes my battery will just die in a couple minutes after 30%.
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Well I'm sure you can find something similar to battery solo widget that will let you set any %. If not maybe you could unpack the apk and try to change the maximum value from 25 to something higher, then re-sign the apk and install.
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Hi all,
Just got my Moto G7 +. Love it and planning to keep it stock.
One thing really annoys me though, it's the battery percentage inside the battery logo itself. It's just so small, can't even read it sometimes.
Now i found out that when you go to developers options you can disable the screen left and right to the notch. After a reboot the battery percentage will be next to the battery. Then, when you enable the screen left and right to the notch the percentage stays next to the battery logo. Perfect! But, after a reboot the percentage will be inside the battery logo again...
Now it seems to me that this is a setting which could be toggled without root.
Anybody got any ideas?
Thanks in advance!
marccoppers said:
Hi all,
Just got my Moto G7 +. Love it and planning to keep it stock.
One thing really annoys me though, it's the battery percentage inside the battery logo itself. It's just so small, can't even read it sometimes.
Now i found out that when you go to developers options you can disable the screen left and right to the notch. After a reboot the battery percentage will be next to the battery. Then, when you enable the screen left and right to the notch the percentage stays next to the battery logo. Perfect! But, after a reboot the percentage will be inside the battery logo again...
Now it seems to me that this is a setting which could be toggled without root.
Anybody got any ideas?
Thanks in advance!
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I've looked and can't find anything easy. No idea how anyone is supposed to read the percentage inside the battery symbol.
The easiest alternative would probably be an app like BatteryBot Battery Indicator.
From what you've found with the Dev Options though.... maybe something could be done with Tasker? I'll have to try myself when I get a chance.
Well, this all got fixed with android 10.
marccoppers said:
Well, this all got fixed with android 10.
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Good to know! Still waiting for that update though but I'm thinking it'll be soon.
koimr said:
Good to know! Still waiting for that update though but I'm thinking it'll be soon.
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Yes, it's fixed in Android Q. Mexican carrier Telcel (part of America Movil) has rolled out Android Q as an OTA as of March 11th, 2020.