Per Terry Terry:

Dunno from those various issued... but I've had pretty good luck
by keeping the phone either on my person or in it's charger
cradle.

I have the charger cradle on my night stand - so it gets charged
every night and the rest of the time it's in my pocket.

I find the less a cell phone is used the less reliable it
becomes.  Various reasons... like self-discharge...

If I had a phone dedicated to emergency standby use, I'd look for
a alkaline battery solution.

Terry Terry schrieb:

... without taking damage. Did it take any permanent damage?

I bet it said "for UP TO 10 days".

Or you cannot read.

Andreas

Terry Terry <metspitzer@gmail.com> wrote in news:998c1819-d655-493c-b6da-
84add3594b19@e25g2000prg.googlegroups.com:

If you'll SIMPLY plug the phone in next to your bed at night...EVERY
night...the Lithium Ion battery will last for MANY years.  Unlike NiCd, or
even Ni-Mh batteries, Lithium batteries are more like lead acid (car
batteries).  They LOVE to be charged from as shallow a discharge as you
really need.  DEEP CYCLING kills Lithium, just like lead acid.  They should
NEVER be left in a discharged state.

As a matter of fact, the IC chip inside these batteries PREVENTS you from
discharging it very far.  This works great....er, ah....most of the time.  
However, the IC, which stores the battery state, eventually becomes
confused as the battery ages.  To RESET the IC is quite simple.  Run the
phone so dead it refuses to boot up....AND IMMEDIATELY RECHARGE IT TO FULL
CHARGE WITHOUT DELAY.  This performs a forced reset on the IC monitor and
suddenly the battery seems to have lots more capacity, when, in fact, it's
the IC that's letting you have more "bandwidth"...(c;

Li-Ion batteries should be quickly deep cycled about every 3-4
months...just once will do.  Other times, recharge them as quickly as you
can, even if they are still showing nearly full.  The less you run them
down before recharging.....the longer their life...REALLY longer, they will
run.

Just plug them in whenever you can......and quit trying to make them run
for weeks without charging, which is great for egos, but awful for Li-Ion
battery packs.

You can still brag to your kiddie-minded friends that it ran 24 days on a
charge....You just didn't say WHICH charge...(c;

Was that two nights from a fully-charged state?

The battery will appear to lose capacity when it's cold, but
that's because chemical activity slows.  If that's all the
problem is, you'll get that capacity back at room temperature.

IMHO, an emergency phone kept in a car should be stored with a
12V charger to work from the cigarette lighter.  In fact, our
cars have a 12V charger in the glove box for each phone type we
carry.

John

Terry Terry <metspitzer@gmail.com> wrote in news:998c1819-d655-493c-b6da-
84add3594b19@e25g2000prg.googlegroups.com:

She's wrong.
I live in a colder climate where it goes below 20F frequently in the
winter.  I've left mine in the car b4 and my phone worked just fine...well,
after I let it warm up to inside room temps.