Help battery overheated from just charging?

[soymilk]

i woke up this morning to find that my inc was pretty hot (left plugged in overnight to charge), and had not charged much (it only got to ~60% starting from 30ish). it also had the overheating warning blinking lights (alternate green and amber) going. i unplugged the phone and the blinking lights stopped and it cooled back down. when it was hot BatteryLeft was reporting 45C, right now it feels normal and reports 31.5C.

should i be worried? all i did was plug it in and leave it on my desk like i normally do when charging, this is the first time it's ever done this for me.

 

[BigSlick]

I have EcoCharger installed on my phone which reminds you to take your phone off the charger and also lets you know the temp. My phone always gets real hot when i either play Homerun Battle 3D, use my GPS, and especially when I use my GPS when its plugged in! It never did what your saying though. Occasionally it will get hot just from being plugged in also.

 

[soymilk]

whoops sorry for wrong forum.

leaving it plugged in overnight to charge has been my standard practice though with no problems, so i dont know why it's just this time out of nowhere it decided to overheat and not really charge instead.

 

[sabrewings]

Something was using the battery pretty hard. Some app in the background or something. If it only got up to 60% while charging, you had something dragging it down.

Is this the OEM charger? You sure Google maps or something power intensive wasn't running in the background?

 

[soymilk]

nothing that i know of was running.

last night it recharged fine. although the battery seems to be draining faster than it used to now, i've dropped over 20% already from unplugging in the morning and it's only 2pm now. ill need to look into some of those monitoring apps that tell you what's using up your battery.