On 1/7/2014 7:48 PM, Danny D'Amico wrote:
On Tue, 07 Jan 2014 07:53:03 -0500, John Grabowski wrote:

*The last time my Panasonic phone did that, I replaced the batteries with
new ones. Problem went away. If yours are four years old I would think
that it is time for a battery replacement. Home Depot has them and I think
Wal-Mart does also.

This might actually be the problem!

After removing all the batteries and allowing the handsets and base to sit
for about five hours today ...
http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5506/1...8f6d65c7_o.gif

When I put the batteries back, I noticed that all five handsets said to
"Charge for 7 Hours" ...
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7331/1...1a1c8679_o.gif

So, I put them all on a 3.5 hour charger:
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7341/1...6aa41376_o.gif

And, when I put them back into the phone, they *still* said to
charge for 7 hours!
http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3756/1...7da87566_o.gif

So, maybe it's that simple - that the Ni-MH batteries, which are a
few years old, are bad.

One problem though, is that I put the new Ni-MH batteries that came
with the charger in, after charging them on the charger, and the
handsets *still* said to charge for 7 hours.

So, something fishy is going on ... with the charge message on the
handsets ... but I don't know what yet.


Since about zero percent of people are gonna do that, they might have
concluded that a timer inside the device would determine
that the device had charged all it could and the display was in
terms of "do this" instead of any actual measurement, and be adequate to
direct 99.9999% of users to perform the operation.

Some people are "overthinkers" ;-)
Hmmm...I resemble that remark.