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My own tests seem to show that charging the correct charger back in does NOT make it start showing the correct level. I have an ipad2 2A charger. Started at 70% charge. Left it on the ipad2 charger for 4 hours. Still said 70%. Then powered off, connect vox charger, switch back on and still shows 70%; I was under the impression that plugging the genuine charger back in would make it show the charged level i.e. more than 70%. Left it on vox charger for a couple of hours and back up to 100%. So it looks like either the charging level is seriously bu**ered by using a 3rd party charger or it really is NOT charging. I think the problem might be that the charge level indicator stays at the same level with the 3rd party charger. This is because it relies upon messages from the vox charger to set the charger level indicator. So, when using the 3rd party chargher, the charge might be 100% but the vox thinks it's 50%. So then on battery it starts to discharge but the vox things it's starting at 50%. So, presuemably, when the vox thinks it's down to 0% it will actually have 50% left. However that's no damn good if the vox still switches off saying zero charge! What I'm also finding is when the genuine charger is plugged in it is also confused because the level isn't correct. So it also thinks it's only at 50% (even thougb it's at 100%) so it starts charging accordingly and carries on until it thinks it's back at 100%. The bad thing about this is you then run the risk of the batteries being over charged :-(
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