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*Update*

Charger/cradle came today. Apparently, the 6800 is in fact charging the batteries.

Basically, I set one battery in the cradle charger slot (amber light at first then green light after 3 hours), and put another battery in the 6800 and threw it on the cradle. The 6800 behaved the same (amber light to indicate charging).

After charging, I placed the now charged battery in the 6800 and booted up. While the battery is booting the device, it is somehow reporting that it is low (actually 0% charged) to the OS, so the phone gives the low battery chirp of death and turns off gracefully after a few seconds.

However, when swapping the batteries (the one that was dead, but was "charging" in the phone while in the charger), the charge slot immediately indicates fully charged (green light). So the phone WAS charging the batteries all along.

I guess the phone is simply no longer detecting the proper state of the batteries (sees them all as 0% charged).

Again, contacts look good (not bent, clean, but re-cleaned anyway)...

So possibly this is software.

Next step, new ROM.