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Originally Posted by Juggalo_X
Its not charging endlessly its just using the Wired power to keep the device running. so that the battery stays at 100% until unplugged.
it would cause a fire if it were still charging the battery once full. and i would be burning in my sleep each night. granted the device gets hot but they all do when connected to usb/charger.
the LED error your reporting could just be a visual error where its not cycling the LED to solid on full charge.
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I disagree.
How do you account for the facts I presented above, that using a wall charger, and option selected, the ring continues to breathe at 100%. At the same time, when the option is deselected, the ring stays on at 100%?
Also the battery stays warm while the ring glows on and off, I suspect that it is in low charge. I can also prove this by looking at No2Chem's Power Panel. It's showing around 150+ mA.
For Li-Ion batteries, there is high rate charge, low rate charge, and trickle charge. High rate will take the battery to ~80%, low rate takes it the rest of the way. It is trickle that maintains the charge.
What you describe is trickle charge, which does not appreciably warm up the battery, and would be at a pulsed/intermittent rate. This would not be a constant 150 mA.
So no, it is not a "visual error". With the option checked, the battery is subject to a constant low rate charge even at 100%. And no, that will not cause a fire. It just reduces the battery's ability to hold charge over time.