A couple of times I have been playing something and was so deep in the game I didn’t realize the battery was going down faster than I realized and the deck decided to turn off.

I have been thinking it would be nice for me to have the battery level visible even when running a game in full screen mode. I have an app on my phone with permission to display on top of other apps that draws a line around the camera cut out showing the battery charge level no matter what I am doing on the phone. In some older phone with no cutout I used to have a horizontal line in the top of the screen.

I would love to have this on the deck. Does anyone know if it exists? I’ve been searching with no result. If it doesn’t exist, I wonder how difficult it would be to implement it… I have no clue how to have it display on top of everything though.

The image shows one of the old apps I used to have to do this on my phone.

  • Fubarberry@sopuli.xyzMEnglish
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    18 hours ago

    When the deck goes to sleep, it does the suspend animation, so you know it’s going to sleep. If I remember right you’ll also have a notification in the bottom right of the screen saying low battery or something similar when it happens.

    If the deck is asleep and gets low on power, nothing will happen. I guess if you wake up the deck with the power low enough it might flash the low battery notification and go back to sleep, but I’ve never had that happen. I had mine set to auto sleep at 5% and I never tried to wake the deck back up before I plugged it in after the auto suspend.

    I was mainly using it back when there was a nasty bug that the deck dying from low power could result in the CPU/GPU being permanently throttled to 400 Mhz, effectively making the deck useless.