Charging dead batteries
This is a great point BBguru. Your point about the PC going into standby actually applies to most devices including Apple, Blackberry, Samsung etc. Most people do not realize that the lower battery life they get in phones is actually due to the source (i.e. PC) going into standby.
Regarding the earlier comment about trickle charge...again I am no expert here....but from what I understand, when the phone shows a dead battery symbol it is not really charging....But batteries in general do tend to collect some trickle charge....after some time in this trickle charge mode it starts the full charge but this does take a long time..
On my ipod for e.g. when there is a dead battery and you plug into a PC the battery symbol is red...it is charging but very slowly. After a few minutes of this...the symbol changes to green and then fast charge has started and the guage moves more quickly.
All you experts..please correct if something i said is untrue or confusing...
cheers
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