View your battery percentage from the XMB with the Battery PRX

Posted Feb 20, 2007 at 4:22PM by QJ Staff Listed in: Homebrew Applications, Homebrew Development Tags: Custom Firmware, hallo07, iR Shell
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Homebrew shells such as iR Shell have an integrated battery monitor which tells you what percentage your battery is at. This can be very useful as you can see exactly how much power your PSP has before it runs out of juice.

Conventional battery icons just don't cut it when you only have 1 bar and it's the final level of the game you've been trying to complete for ages - you need to know exactly how much time you have left. That's why the creator of Flash Agent, Hallo007 has released a new PRX for custom firmware users.

Currently, this battery PRX only shows the percentage of battery life when you press the note key, but Hallo007 plans to add more features in future versions now that he has the hang of making PRX's. This is his first PRX and therefore there may be a couple of bugs in this release. It has already been noted that the screenshot PRX uses the note key to operate as well, but this will all be fixed in future versions.

To install the battery PRX, simply copy the extracted folders into the SEPLUGINS folder, make a vsh.txt  and enable it in recovery mode.

Download: [Battery PRX v0.01]
View: [Forum release thread]

 
 
 

Comments

by - 2007-02-20 16:08:18
re

First! Oh my gosh! I am sooo calling my mom to tell her about this! Cool app :)
by - 2007-02-20 16:10:14
nice

i usually am at 2 bars all the time now ill finally know when to charge or how much time i have left to play! p.s. first posters suck
by shrimpdude - 2007-02-20 16:18:43
Finally...

Yes! A battery indicator that's useful for once. p.s. The only thing worse than first posters are the idiots that acknowledge them.
by xKJTx - 2007-02-20 16:24:04
SO....

This still dose work with the capture prx? or do you have to turn the picture prx off and then turn this one on? Oh and i found that DGEN dosent work when a prx is on. It just shuts down and turns the psp off after 10 sec.
by - 2007-02-20 16:27:57
nice

very cool idea, im gonna use this one
by shrimpdude - 2007-02-20 16:28:45
On second thoughts...

"Conventional battery icons just don't cut it when you only have 1 bar and it's the final level of the game you've been trying to complete for ages" And it won't help you there, since it doesn't work in-game. And it flickers like hell in the XMB.
by iceatcs - 2007-02-20 16:39:57
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I know but patience since it is only v0.01 Hopefully It might fix and maybe to allow on in-game. I wondering that the custom battery icon or colour is work in-game? I don%u2019t play with them yet this moment.
by igasagu - 2007-02-20 16:43:27
fail

Lol god damnit. My friend Sypherce was working on making this, and has been for several weeks. Well so much for that.
by - 2007-02-20 17:31:13
he could make a better one

^^
by - 2007-02-20 17:38:22
GTA UNPATCHED!!!!

Having trouble finding Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories ULES-00151 VERSION 2.00 UK ONLY. Selling all my games bricked my TA-081 using the recovery on 3.10OE :'( BUT ITS ALL GOOD THERES A THING CALLED A MODCHIP!! http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=140086941804
by - 2007-02-20 17:50:20
lol

sweet prx p.s. and at the pit of stupidity is people who acknowledge people that acknowledge REAL idiots..
by - 2007-02-20 17:56:40
yeah

Thanks for that
by aiexbadboy - 2007-02-20 18:28:06
^^

finally no need to go SYSTEM to view battery percentage, nice prx
by - 2007-02-20 20:01:12
you fail

"bricked my TA-081 using the recovery on 3.10OE"
by shrimpdude - 2007-02-20 20:10:01
Uh

So...you?
by - 2007-02-20 20:37:42
what do you press

what do you press to see the pewercentage ??? i have read you press home what is that?
by - 2007-02-20 20:56:47
FIX

i ment that i read about pressing the NOTE button
by - 2007-02-20 21:25:02
jfdsa

this conflicts with the svcapture plug-in..seeing as you have to hit the music note to takes screens or record video.
by - 2007-02-20 22:29:31
psp lover

does his work in 3.10 OE ?
by - 2007-02-20 23:44:03
does this flash the internal memory or run off the memorystick

I don't want to flash this, but if you don't have to flash anything its a cool app.
by - 2007-02-21 02:45:56
would be great

if this was permanently on, repositionable, and colored. Then we could flash a battery icon that transparent and place this in its position. Or better yet, integrate it into the psp flash and have it fully replace the battery icon. Then it would be something to get excited about. As for now, its not as if your dying to know how much battery is left when your in the XMB, its when your in game that its a problem. Making this fairly useless.
by - 2007-02-21 03:52:51
flashing text

when i press the note button i can see the text that indicates battery percentage but it its flashing at an incredible rate and proving difficult to read. i have 3.10 latest with vshex.prx and bc.prx enabled in xmb. anyone else having the same issues?
by - 2007-02-21 05:16:48
Nice app! - problems in Flash Agent!

love both your apps, BUT in Flash Agent 3 there is a problem. i redirect the route to the custom gameboot at the MS. and i debranded the PMF, but when i change the coldboot sound (also opening_plugin.rco where FA3 is editing the debrand and route) i still got the right gameboot, but it aint debranded any more...? and if i then debrand the gameboot i lose my coldboot sound? some thing you can fix? great work by the way!!! i'm out - Xi-Bit
by - 2007-02-21 07:40:45
you could change the button layout for capture.prx

all you have to do is open the capture.ini with a text editor and edit it to this: ScreenShot = PSP_CTRL_SELECT + PSP_CTRL_LTRIGGER VideoStartNormal = PSP_CTRL_SELECT + PSP_CTRL_RTRIGGER VideoStartAdvanced = PSP_CTRL_SELECT + PSP_CTRL_LTRIGGER + PSP_CTRL_RTRIGGER VideoStop = PSP_CTRL_SELECT
by - 2007-02-21 07:53:04
..

very good idea..i'm gonna wait for a later release where perhaps it is always on display where the battery icon normally is? and i'll try it then looking forward to another release hopefully.
by - 2007-02-21 08:17:03
ok

its an okay prx but when i press note i see the text flashing all the time and sometimes it wont go away , only after I press a few times on note again
by - 2007-02-21 13:50:44
huh

Im sure your mother will be extreemly proud of you for coming 1st in something in your life.
by - 2007-02-21 13:55:14
yah

must feel good, you make it sound as this was you'r first time being 1'st in you'r life. how sad. would hate to be you.
by - 2007-02-21 14:23:28
Sorry, not good enough...

As for this weekends release of PSEvolve, this PRX will NOT be included because its so glitchy and very incompatible. When things are sorted out, I will probably release PSEvolve with V2 or an Update. Thanks, NG
by - 2007-02-21 15:06:44
Very nice

Not the first nice app or add-on for the PSP that we've seen from Hallo007.Very nice Hallo007,keep it comin' !

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