How to enable battery percentage in Android 4.4 KitKat status bar

It looks like Google has been considering bringing the battery percentage within the battery indicator icon found in the device status bar. The good folks over at XDA have found a way to pretty easily tweak a setting in Android 4.4 KitKat that will put the battery percentage number inside the battery indicator.

There are in fact two ways to get this done: One requires you to have knowledging in executing adb commands to your device. However the developers have released a simple APK to achieve this, since most casual consumers might be put off by having to install the Android developer tools and using the command line to tweak settings.

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If you prefer using the ADB method, you have to make sure you have ADB installed on your computer. You could use our guide on how to setup ADB and Fastboot for Windows if you need assistance.

Type the following ADB shell command
adb shell content insert –uri content://settings/system –bind name:s:status_bar_show_battery_percent –bind value:i:1
adb reboot

Once your device has rebooted, you will have the battery percentage indicator. However the indicator text also appears in white, so you wont be able to see it until the battery level is below the actual text.

While this may not be ideal, its likely that Google will finally bring this as a standard feature to stock Android in the near future.


source - XDA Developers