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Originally Posted by clockcycle
It doesn't charge differently. If you search through other threads you will see the same suggestion posted. Complaints about the battery indicator dropping to 90% from full after removing it from the charger.
Reason is that Li ION batteries/chargers do not trickle charge, once full they stop, if not the battery would over heat and possibly cause a fire.
It is also the reason why you do not have to prime (fully charge, discharge) a Li ION battery, they include IC in the pack, hence they are considered smart batteries (that's why you can have widgets telling you the temp and power in the battery, they read this IC).
Third party, cheap oem some times have bad IC/programming or may not include one at all and may be dangerous, if not hazardous to your device. Same applies for cheap generic chargers.. YMMV
EDIT: Cheap/generic batteries and or charger manufacturers assume you will use their product with a decent battery/charger that will prevent over charge or over heating, but when consumers use both generic/cheap products, is when this possible hazard may come to happen.
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Ok, but my TP2, Pre, Diamond, TP, etc all used Li ION batteries and would hold a charge at %100 and gradually drop down throughout the day, not like the EVO which drops to %90 right away, or at least it used to before doing this trick and the constant charge/unplug/charge trick. Now when I unplug the phone it sits at %100 for at least a half hour then gradually drops to 99, 98, 97, ... and so on. My other phones maintained a full charge at the time I removed them from the charger after an overnight charge, and now my EVO does too.