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Originally Posted by Karel Jansens View Post
Actually... Regular deep discharges are just about the second worst thing you can do to a LiIon (second to leaving it in the blistering heat, that is. If you also count poking inside them with sharp metal objects, then it's the third worst thing). They stay much happier when topped off before reaching half discharge.

Remember: LiIons are a completely different beastie than NiCads; the latter really craves the deep discharges.
Hmm. I don't know what this did to the lifespan of my battery, but ...

It was starting to say Fully Charged rather quickly and then not showing that it had a lot of juice when I took it off the charger, and, indeed, it did seem to run out pretty quickly. So I did a total discharge, until it turned itself off, and subsequently it seems to take a much larger charge. Maybe that's theoretically true only for NiCads, but my experience seemed to show it worked for my N800's LiOn battery.
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