I have had the phone for about 2 months and never had issues with charging from the laptop. In fact, I do it every working day and always needed no more than 4 hours for full charge. When charging from the wall charger, it takes up to 2 hours.

Besides enabling SmartReflex, I have done two things with the phone in last 24 hours:

• edited /var/lib/gconf/apps/hildon/update-notifier/%gconf.xml to change the time of day when auto update occurs
• updated the pidgin messenger

none of these seem charging-related to me.