Zen Micro Charg

I just read the following article in the knowledge base:
"It has been reported by some of our customers that they have experienced reduced battery life after charging their Zen Micro. Our product development team has researched these reports and determined that the users may have experienced this after they plugged their Zen Micro into the AC adapter that was already inserted into a wall socket with the AC power on."
This is what has happened to me. What you experience if you use this method is the player never gives you an indication that it's fully charged (no A/C plug symbol ever appears). Eventually you get fed up after leaving the player on charge for well in excess of 4 hours and unplug the thing.
So a firmware upgrade has been released to correct this, which I will duly install. The question is: has the battery been damaged by charging via this incorrect method i.e. will the battery now "remember" the incomplete charge and fail to charge beyond this point?
Cheers

Lithium Ion has no memory effect and is very resilient to these things, so I doubt you've caused any major problem (or even a minor one).

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