Best way to charge battery?

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Originally Posted by WriterRoam

I had an experience yesterday that relates to the topic of this thread.

I always set my call phone in its charging cradle at night; makes a great alarm clock. This worked great with my Storms; now I have a new Torch 9850. Yesterday when I woke up the battery indicator was just a red outline. When I tried to charge the phone I got the message "Phone cannot charge battery" or words to that effect. I tried to activate the mobile network and got the message like "Not enough battery charge to start mobile network".
I put in a new battery and everything worked fine. I then went to the local Verizon premium retailer and bought two more batteries. The lady there said that I should not charge my battery overnight as I have been doing, because that reduces the life of the battery. What do you think? Could this have made the battery blow out on me? And if not, what else might have caused this problem? (I have started using a new charger, in case the one I was using is defective.)

My old 9800 got charge every night, for 1 years and a 2 month (got the torch around December 1rst), battery was still good. It got charged 425 time, and I'm still using that battery in my 9810 (as a spare).