Battery-charging weirdness...

[Laurence5905]

Ok, so last night, my phone is on the Multimedia Dock on the table next to my bed... I wake up about 3 hours after going to bed, and I noticed that the Notification LED was glowing red, which it does when you need to charge the battery. The battery-icon itself showed that the battery was charging (which, after 3 hours on the dock, it should've been full.)

I pulled the phone off the dock, and immediately got a notification that the battery was at 5%, and I should connect a charger quickly. I put the phone back on the dock, and it started charging. Then after about 5 seonds, it jumped to 100% battery, and stopped charging...

Very weird, yes?! I'm just wondering if anyone else has had this kind of weird battery-thing going on?

[640k]

how are you charging the phone?

is the dock connected to the wall or a PC?

[Laurence5905]

how are you charging the phone?

is the dock connected to the wall or a PC?

Dock is connected to the wall-charger that came with the dock, using the USB cable that also came with the dock.

[640k]

maybe the phone wasn't seated all of the way? as soon as you put the phone in the dock, the battery icon should change to an animated battery with a lightning bolt in it, indicating a charge.

also make sure the outlook you're plugged in to is not a switched outlet.

[FoFa]

I had something weird happen to my Droid once like that (but I have no dock). Said battery down to 15% or something like that. I plugged it in (using the wall charger) it said charging 90%.
Only happened once, on 2.0, so as with computers, I wrote it off as just "one of those things".

[640k]

also try doing a battery pull and waiting about a minute before putting it back in. weird battery issues seem to go away when you give it a rest.

[Laurence5905]

maybe the phone wasn't seated all of the way? as soon as you put the phone in the dock, the battery icon should change to an animated battery with a lightning bolt in it, indicating a charge.

also make sure the outlook you're plugged in to is not a switched outlet.

Definitely not a switched outlet. And I always check to ensure the battery-icon has the little "lightning bolt" on it when I set the Droid in the dock. It did have that going before I went to bed. Hence my use of the term "weirdness..." Everything was apparently normal before this happened.

[DarrellM5]

I've had the same thing happen several times with dockrunner and once when I just had the Droid plugged into the computer with a USB cable. The "low battery" notification is definitely false because after removing the Droid from the charging source and hooking it back up it quickly goes to 100%. Then if you immediately take it back off the charger, the battery will last as long as a fully charged battery normally does.

[640k]

yeah sounds like a fluke. you might have an app installed that can access the battery (or some related process) that flipped it out. if it happens again, reboot or try a battery pull. make sure you don't have any apps that might be questionable.

[Laurence5905]

I had something weird happen to my Droid once like that (but I have no dock). Said battery down to 15% or something like that. I plugged it in (using the wall charger) it said charging 90%.
Only happened once, on 2.0, so as with computers, I wrote it off as just "one of those things".

I'm hoping that's the case... "Just one of those things..."

I guess what's worrying me is that it did this while it was plugged in. It didn't do it while the phone was just sitting there -- it was already plugged in and charging when it started this weirdness... I just hate to think that the battery was fully-charged, but the CPU decided it wasn't fully charged, so it kept trying to charge it, thus damaging the battery. I'd hate for the battery to have been damaged by all this.

Although, I must say, this morning, the phone seems to be completely normal again... But I'm keeping a close eye on my battery-life, just to make sure the battery is still working properly...