How to enable battery percentage indicator in Apple iPhone

If you are looking for the battery percentage indicator in your Apple iPhone 3G/2G running on OS 3.0, then stop looking because it's not there! However, there is still a way to enable it. Before we start, please take a backup of your Apple iPhone. Please note that whatever we will be doing here is done at your own risk. So be careful! I am trying this test on iPhone 3G but it must work on iPhone 2G.

Basically there are two methods of enabling battery percentage indicator, but keep this in mind that you will need a jailbroken iPhone to do so.

SBSettings

SBSettings, a jailbreak application, provides you with various switches that are available in the Settings app onto iPhone's home screen.

• Start SBSettings
• Go to the More button. You will see the settings screen of SBSettings.
• Then go to "Extra & Options" at the bottom of the screen.
• Then go to the toggle button to enable Numeric Battery.
• Reboot your iPhone to see the battery indicator in percentage.

asBattery

First you need to install asBattery developed by Andre Sendowski using Cydia on your jailbroken iPhone. Just follow the below steps to download asBattery:

• Launch Cydia.
• Go to Manage tab at the bottom.
• Then go to Sources.
• Then go to "Edit" button on the top right corner.
• Go to "Add" button to add the repository.
• Click on add to open a pop-up where you need to enter the URL of the repository. Enter “http:// apt.iphone-storage.de ” and click on the "Add Source" button. Please wait for the repository to be installed.
• Then click on the Search tab at the bottom right corner of Cydia and search for asBattery.
• Go to the "Install" button on the top right corner.
• Then click on the "Confirm" button. This will install asBattery on your jailbroken iPhone.
• Once asBattery is successfully installed, reboot your iPhone.
• You can now enable the battery percentage indicator via the Settings App (General - Usage - Battery Percentage).