Battery - charging or discharging?

like many on here I have been effected by much reduced battery life following the upgrade to 3.1 and 3.1.2 - mine sits on charge for most of the day and so it doesn’t really effect me, however I do use my phone at night as a Night stand clock sitting in a charging dock. Night stand and similar apps allow you to keep the phone running i.e. no auto shut down and I have regularly recently woken in the early hours to a phone showing no battery life, despite it sitting in the charging dock it the icon showing it was charging.
I took the advice of another user on here and loaded an app called “system activity monitor” - this showed me that despite my phone saying it was charging on the icon the battery was actually discharging rather than charging, even when at say 50% power. The "discharging / charging" display keeps swapping on irregular intervals and I am just posting this topic to see if others have experienced similar issues. It seems very strange that the phone thinks it’s charging when it actually isn’t. - surely this must drain batteries. Also despite the discharging/charging problem I found that if I switch email to “manual” then I get through the night with 50% power remaining – last might I swapped back to Push and the battery was dead in about 4 hours – and that’s despite the phone being in airplane mode - Something with Push is clearly not right to drain the battery so quickly, especially when I had assumed if I was airplane mode the push would be automatically disabled!
any comments gratefully received
thanks
Message was edited by: rpeak

I have an identical issue to the one described by the IBM page - failure to charge, and sudden shutdowns, meaning I can only run with the battery removed and AC connected. I am aware the IBM replacement programme finished in 2008. What does that mean for me now? I understand that batteries are consumables, but this seems a specific technical malfunction.
If I buy a new battery, will I experience the same issues or have new batteries had their hardware corrected for this problem.
Thanks.

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    Shut down the computer, remove both batteries, restart on A/C only then in the device manager, under batteries, uninstall the Microsoft ACPI Compliant Control Method Driver, shut down, replace the batteries and reboot.
    Unfortunately I can no longer use the battery stretch option in the Metro Lenovo settings as well as the camera, wifi etc. functionality of the Metro Lenovo Settings App.
    It appears that no one ever tested the Settings Dependency Package with dual batteries on board.
    Mark, can you send this to the proper engineer?
    Thanks,

    Ok - fair enough. I guess I should have left that question out of the original post. The primary questions were at the top of the post. Ultimately I do want to figure out if my unit is defective, but it's going to be a tedious process that will involve a few discharges (if I can squeeze them in before I run out of exchange time.) My normal debug process involves first verifying that the problem is repeatable, then iterating while changing as few parameters as possible until I can to narrow in on the issue. However, rather than just jumping in and changing random parameters, I try to take somewhat of a methodical approach - which starts by understanding how things are supposed to work first. So my initial questions stand. Any takers out there?
    I'm sorry guys. I know this must seem like a no brainer - I should just take it in and exchange it. However, I have no Apple stores within a 150 mile radius, and AT&T would need to order me a new one. In addition, I like the one I have, and I don't want to exchange it if it isn't defective. Thanks for being patient with me.

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