I forgot to charge my Droid last night, and as a result woke up with a depleted battery. I pulled it into the wall, and was able to get it to charge for several minutes before I headed to work. To conserve battery, I powered-off the phone before I left.
At the office, I plugged the USB charger into my desktop to charge. I let it charge for about an hour (white charge light next to mini-usb port was on), and then tried to power it on. Nothing. Nada. Display=dark. Keeping my panic in check, I removed/replaced the battery a couple of times. I even tried a hard reset, all with no reaction on the phone..no lights (except for the white charge light), no haptic. Nothing.
In a last ditch effort, I plugged the wall plug into an open socket on the floor here, and now the Droid appears to be charging OK and is on. So..
1. Sometimes, apparently, charging from the USB doesn't work. Especially when battery levels are low. This is something I did not know.
2. I love my Droid (got it last week), but I am disappointed with battery life..even with all of my GPS, display, wireless, etc toggled off. This is my first foray into smartphones, so maybe that's just the way it is.
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