Overcharging?

[parkschr]

I was wondering if it is ok to use other motorola chargers with the MAXX. The one it comes with is too short of a wire. I need something longer. There are several other travel chargers by motorola. Will they work or harm my battery. I only want the best for my battery!

[TisMyDroid]

I was wondering if it is ok to use other motorola chargers with the MAXX. The one it comes with is too short of a wire. I need something longer. There are several other travel chargers by motorola. Will they work or harm my battery. I only want the best for my battery!

Most other chargers will work but there may be some (especially cheaper ones) that will make the phone act possessed while plugged in. If this happens make note to never use that charger. The stock charger that came with phone is the best. Some charge cables are only for charging others are also for data (to connect to pc) and some will charge slower than others. I too hate the short cable that came with the Maxx.

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[FoxKat]

He ^^ is one of my disciples, and he's living up to every expectation!

[JohnnytheK]

By the way Foxkat, don't tell the Boy Scouts I work with about that "torch like, extremely high temperature flame" thing. It might give them ideas.

Maybe not so much, I've seen the after affects of Li-ion battery committing suicide and it's not pretty.

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[Natey2]

Now, don't panic since as jkaod explained, the phone knows this and once the battery reaches about 90% of full, the charging system reduces the charge rate to a "trickle" and will continue to gently "top off" the battery to 100% - the maximum recommended charge.

Yes! +1
Proof: http://www.droidforums.net/forum/sho....php?p=1312534

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[peterjhon12]

useful information...please tell me something about small battery back-up devices ?

[Quick]

Recently installed a number of battery monitor apps and they are reporting that my Droid 4 is charging to 4.35 volts at full charge. This can't be good for a Li-Ion battery life (polymer of not).
This seems to be backed up on the internet (heh, it has to be true).

My speculations (assuming the reported voltage is correct):

Overcharging in this fashion will result in some additional capacity between charges -- at the cost of reduced battery life. Probably resulting in something like 300 - 500 charge cycles?
If I were to only charge to 90% I might double or triple the usable life of the battery.

Motorola and the ISPs design to criteria. Some of the heavily weighted ones will be:
Form factor -- thinner, lighter, ...
Duty cycle -- phone designed to cover average user's ownership. What's that? Something like a year? maybe 2?
Run on Battery for some acceptable amount of time -- work day? 8 hours? 12 hours? 16 hours?

Given that, overcharging the battery may be by design. Thinner/lighter/smaller battery that still operates the particular device under normal usage for an accpetable amount of time between charges and has a usable lifetime covering the average user's length of ownership.

I keep my phones for a long time. Kyocera 7135 - 4 or 5 years, Treo - 6 years, ... I expect to keep my Droid 4 a similar amount of time (maybe ). So I'm thinking if I only charge to 90% I may double or triple the usable life of the non-removeable battery in it.

Anything to this?