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Originally Posted by Ashbeck View Post
Over saturating a li-ion battery is not a good idea. When you put the charger in the phone. The voltage shoots up. And says ready, but the battery is not ready, thats why, you can have a full change, and suddenly, it drops. Because that was a false ready.

So the phone is saying battery is charged when it's not because phone cannot measure battery capacity, but voltage. They suggest charging the phone while turned off so voltages and stuff can balance.

batteryuniversity.com/learn/article/charging_lithium_ion_batteries
Very good to know.

My wife's Samung is dying pretty much every night, but she leaves it on and charges it. When she first bought it the life was better, but has since dropped off considerably, its only ~6 months old.