Hey everyone.
I've just brought a 9500 and have a question about the dock. Now, several mobile phone store employees have told me that it's death to a battery to either (a) leave it plugged in after achieving full charge or (b) to not let the battery run down before charging.
The PC Dock thing is really cool, but seems to cause a problem in both these areas. I'm really just asking for opinions and advise, but specifically: is the dock intelligent enough to stop charging when the phone is full. I suspect not.
Ian
According to a technician at my service provider he says the new batteries do not suffer a memory effect. But I think it's still good every now and then to do a full discharge and recharge
Omroth wrote:Hey everyone.I've just brought a 9500 and have a question about the dock. Now, several mobile phone store employees have told me that it's death to a battery to either (a) leave it plugged in after achieving full charge or (b) to not let the battery run down before charging.
The PC Dock thing is really cool, but seems to cause a problem in both these areas. I'm really just asking for opinions and advise, but specifically: is the dock intelligent enough to stop charging when the phone is full. I suspect not.
Ian
You don't have to plug the charger into the dock. I've got my charger next to the bed, and one next to my computer at the office - this way I can charge the phone when I'm either sleeping or working (aka sleeping). I don't keep the phone in the dock for very long at all - basically only when I'm synching it, so charging it there would be a pain for me.
Also, there's no logic on how to charge in the actual dock, it's in the phone. Which basically means that charging the phone with the charger, or the charger plugged into the dock is exactly the same. And yes, the phone does stop charging after it's full (or it just charges the "consumption" - the battery bar stops "moving"😉
The people at phone shops still think that phones come with ni-cad batteries and need charging for 30000 hours before you can use it. With the Li-ion batteries phones have been using for years you just need to charge it until it's full, there's no memory effect so no need to try to run it flat similarly as said above the phone flashes up to let you know the battery is full and stops charging, later as the battery level goes down it'll top it up. The thing to remember is that 95% of the staff in these shops know bugger all about the technology they are selling apart from how to shift units to people.