Charging Headset and phone in combo dock

I posted this earlier before there was a Blue tooth forum.
Any thoughts appreciated
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

"First: You can completely turn the iPhone off. Clicking the on/off button on the top of the phone puts it in standbye. Clicking and holding the on/off button for 3-4 seconds brings up a red "power off" slider. If you slide it across the screen, it completely powers off the phone. The next time you click the on/off button, the iPhone takes 15-30 seconds to power back up.
Second: I think the original questioner is correct. It appears that if you completely power off the iPhone, the headset quits recharging. (The headset's amber charge light goes off). When you turn the phone back on, the amber charge light comes back on for the headset.
Question: Does your iPhone recharge while in the cradle and turned off completely? I haven't checked that. I also haven't check to see if the headset actually charges or not. Just noticed the status light goes out that would tend to make you think its not charging."
I think Everyone knows by now that iPhone can be completely shut off. He was referring to shutting it off and putting the phone on the charger (dock), which can not be done.
The phone is set up to sync automatically when connected to the computer, so, the phone powers back on. I think another reason for this is to prevent the computer from going into sleep mode, it drains the battery if it in sleep mode and the phone is connected. This is prevented by the phone syncing to itunes, it will not allow the laptop to go in to sleep mode.

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