Anyone used the Blue Tooth iPhone combo dock yet..Questions Charging!

Question

I like to charge my phone from the AC/USB adapter every night with the phone turned off. The combo dock (and the travel cord) has a wierd issue when you want to use it to charge both the headset and the phone. If you turn the phone off in the dock (not sleep) the headset won't charge. If you take the phone out of the dock it will charge. If you put only the headset in the dock it will charge. The only way I can charge both at once with the phone off the way i prefer is to use the dock or travel cable for for the headset and another AC/USB adapter to charge the phone when it's off, defeating the whole purpose of the dock if you want a completely full charge, plus you don't get the days usage because the phone is never off.
With the phone in sleep mode in the dock, not off, I did not get a full charge on the green battery icon , but the plug icon indicated full charge. Charging the phone when it's off on the AC/USB adapter before I got my BT headset, I always got the full green battery and the glow, and based upon today's usage, I shut it off early this morning and turned it back on to get this, thus far (5 hrs 13 mins usage, 7 hours 10 minutes standby BT on,lot's of email, ipod and calls and I have a little over half battery left), battery life (somewhat subjective), didn't appear to be as good as it was charging from the wall when it's off.
Apple tech support said that this was "probably" normal behavior.
Any thoughts?
Thanks,
CD3
Message was edited by: CD3

Answer 1

i charge my iPhone with it on all the time. when i charge it overnight i always cycle it in the morning. the "green glow" is a user interface glitch(which has been discussed ALLOT here) as long as the plug shows it is fully charged. if my iPhone doesn't show the the "green glow" i cycle it in the morning and that usually does it for me. my iPhone went for almost 48 hours on a charge before asking me to please charge it; this is with moderate to medium calling, internet and ipod. another thing is that when you use your iphone with you headset and the bluetooth is on it is using extra battery because they only have an on and off function and they don't have where you can set it to be discoverable so it is constantly searching and searching for bluetooth devices. which will i have not noticed to be a real drain on the battery but for someone that is say subjected to allot of bluetooth devices in an office building perhaps that might play a role in sucking down more power. for me i notice that it is like 5-10 min of talk time less that with bluetooth on. but as i charge overnight i didn't notice it being much if any lower at night with average use. i don't have the bluetooth combo dock but he battery should fully charge in 4 hours and the average person sleeps more than 8 i would imagine that you are trying to charge 2 things off the same charger but the headset is 1 hour to charge if i remember so what at the most of like 6 hours for both to full charge? i don't know if this helps just some useful information. we have 3 iPhone's in the house and they all have around the same battery life BTW.