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Old 11-17-2008, 10:58 PM
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Re: A little tough Love about battery issues.

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Originally Posted by kevm14 View Post

Are you using the factory AC charger?
I tried it with both Factory charger (1000mA) that came with my Touch Pro and a Motorola RAZR charger (500mA) . The Factory charger reads about 800mA Charge rate and the Motorola RAZR reads about 500mA Charge rate. Yet when the phone is used at all, BOTH charge rates dropped to the same rate of <400mA, which were both under the Discharge rate.

These numbers tell me that it has nothing to do with overheating, the charge rate is purposefully lowered when the phone is in use no matter what. Rather than the Touch Pro's battery intelligently regulating the charge rate to avoid damage, it's a dumb charging system, that just cuts the charge rate no matter what.

Simply lazy programming. Hopefully it's fixed in the firmware update.

-Ed

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