coding for lg vx8800 (venus) issues...

[EvolveDesigns]

Hey all!

I'm new to coding for phones, but I picked this one up and now I wanna hack the hell out of it! Saddly.. I'm having issues. The phone's interface is made in flash so I figured I could replace some of it with my own stuff.

First task - Make a flash wallpaper that displays the state of the battery. Sounded easy... first I did this for flash lite 2.1 which works great when previewed in device central:

checkBattery();
vibrate = true;
function checkBattery(){
    battLevel = fscommand2("GetBatteryLevel");
    maxBattLevel = fscommand2("GetMaxBatteryLevel");
    percent = Math.floor(battLevel/maxBattLevel*100);
    battCounter.text = percent + "%";
    battStats.text = "current level: " + battLevel + "\rtotal level: " + maxBattLevel;
    
    //goto 75%
    if(percent <= 75 && percent > 50){
        battery.gotoAndStop(2);
    }
    //goto 50%
    if(percent <= 50 && percent > 25){
        battery.gotoAndStop(3);
    }
    //goto 25%
    if(percent <= 25 && percent > 5){
        battery.gotoAndStop(4);
    }
    //goto 5%
    if(percent <= 5){
        battery.gotoAndStop(5);
        
        if(vibrate){
            status = fscommand2("StartVibrate", 2000, 1000, 2);
        }
        vibrate = false;
    }
}
//change to 60
checkTimer = setInterval(this, "checkBattery", 10000); 

displays the battery state, if it's about to die it vibrates twice (ironic i know). No Go. It just kept saying 100% battery... so I tried coding in flash lite 1.1 even though the phone supports 2.1 because I ran out of ideas:

battLevel = fscommand2("GetBatteryLevel");
maxBattLevel = fscommand2("GetMaxBatteryLevel");
percent = Math.floor(battLevel/maxBattLevel*100);
battCounter = percent;

//goto 75%
if(percent <= 75 && percent > 50){
    tellTarget("battery"){
        gotoAndStop(2);
    }
}
//goto 50%
if(percent <= 50 && percent > 25){
    tellTarget("battery"){
        gotoAndStop(3);
    }
}
//goto 25%
if(percent <= 25 && percent > 5){
    tellTarget("battery"){
        gotoAndStop(4);
    }
}
//goto 5%
if(percent <= 5){
    tellTarget("battery"){
        gotoAndStop(5);
    }
    
    if(vibrate){
        status = fscommand2("StartVibrate", 2000, 1000, 2);
    }
    vibrate = false;
} 

still no go. both preview fine, neither work on the phone... it traces out the max battery as 4 and the current batter as 4 no matter what...

Anyone have any suggestions?

ps I forgot to mention, I've replaced one of the default swf wallpapers with my swf file using BitPim. I've also tried replacing the tipcalculator to the same ends