Some extenal battery chargers are NOT fully charging the battery!!

[stanglifemike]

So, we think we can just buy an external battery charger and our charging problems are solved. Right? Wrong!! I recently noticed that when charging in one of my external chargers that the battery didnt seem to last as long as when it was charged in my dock with external battery charger. I can charge the battery in my external charger, and I guess once the light changes telling you that it is charged - thats it, it does not charge anymore as a safety feature (which is nice, if it was actually fully charged!!). I can leave it in there for hours after the fully charged light comes on, put the battery in my dock with external charger, and it immediately starts charging it(red light showing that it isnt charged, green light once it is charged).
Didnt know if you guys knew about this or not, but it sucks that you may think that your using an external charger and getting all that you can out of your battery when really you would get hours more battery life with a different charger. Hope this helps some of you out!!

The charger that IS NOT CHARGING the battery fully:



The charger that IS FULLY CHARGING the battery:




Next test for me will be to charge the battery in the external charge(that isnt fully charging) and then put the battery in the phone, turn on the phone, then dock it and see if it starts charging or not. Would be crazy if it starts charging in the dock with the phone on, when it should be charging much more in an external. Not that it will matter for me as I am about to order another dock just like the one I have and toss the cheapo in the trash, or maybe just in a drawer just in case for an emergency...