Published by Jhünax™ on 24 Jun 2009
How to enable battery percentage on iPhone 2G
NOTE: As a good practice, always keep a backup of the original file your about to modify.
- Prerequisites:
- OpenSSH
- Steps:
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- SSH to you iPhone (login: root)
- Execute
plutil -c xml1 /var/mobile/Library/Preferences/com.apple.springboard.plist
This will convert the binary property list to human readable text (XML).
- Using text editors, edit /var/mobile/Library/Preferences/com.apple.springboard.plist
(e.g. vim /var/mobile/Library/Preferences/com.apple.springboard.plist)
- Look for the string
SBReorderCount 2 - Insert under it
SBShowBatteryLevel - Save the file and quit the editor.
- Restart SpringBoard (e.g. killall SpringBoard)






