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Wow! that's quite a mouthful eh?
It's not a charging/sync docking station, that's for sure, i was hoping it would've been for that price $40, but it's worth it.
The package content:
- The pretty Box itself (with the OEM Samsung hologram logo)
- Instruction Manual
- Warranty Info
- Wall charger, micro usb plug
- 1850 mAh spare battery with NFC
- Dual function charging battery base, that double as a phone stand
The battery charge stand can use either the original micro USB cable that came with the phone and plug it to the computer, or you can use the wall charger that came with the stand to plug it to the wall.
The stand will only charge the spare the battery, it will not dock & charge the phone.
However the phone stand is adjustable to sit the phone vertically, horizontally, or leaning over the dock in a variety of position, it sits well on most desk, and it has 4 rubber feet, so it wont slide around.
The phone sits nicely on that glove even when the case is on the phone, and is firm enough to not have to worry about it being knocked down accidentally.
it' makes it easy to work hands off, or make a very nice Clock/Alarm night stand, or even watch TV/Movies, combines well when plugged to the MHL to HDMI connector
The battery charge has a LED indicator that switches from red, amber, green, indicating the level of the battery charge status
the charging pad is very compact, so it's great for travel, and carry around with you for when you want to use both hands to work on the phone, and keep the phone standing up for easy typing, or any other alternative uses you can come up with.
Good review. Looking at your pictures, you did the same thing I did - Use the phones charger instead of the included one.
The charger one looks cheap imo.
I did find that without a case, the stand didn't hold mine the way I would've liked it to. I felt that with it standing upright, it could easily be knocked over with a bump of the table.
yeah, you'r right it holds better with a case than without a case, it does feel a bit lose without a case
i guess when they designed it, they took that into account
it'll be waaaaay too much of a hassle to keep taking the case on/off whenever you want to sit the phone down
agreed, having an extra battery for this thing is great too, as my average phone use would be considered "heavy" according to others. when i leave for the day i grab the dock and my phone and never worry, at night i plug them both in.
I bought this a couple days after getting the phone and honestly don't know why I haven't done this before. Don't have to worry about carrying my charger everywhere with me now.
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I decided to go with this package 2 weeks ago and its awesome. It was $49.99 at a Tmobile Store but got 2 $1.99 lanyards for the 30% off swallow for 3 accessories. The D30 case fits sweet withe the stand. I highly recommended it!
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yeah, you'r right it holds better with a case than without a case, it does feel a bit lose without a case
i guess when they designed it, they took that into account
it'll be waaaaay too much of a hassle to keep taking the case on/off whenever you want to sit the phone down
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Got a question for you, which charger are you using with this? the 1A? How quick is it charging?
I cant imagine you to get too quick a charge if your now charging 2 batteries with the stock charger and partially using the phone.
If it wont charge the phone whats the point of this thing? to just charge the spare battery?
Will it charge the phone once the spare is charged? Once its taken out?
the one at home is hooked up to my PC so 500mAh
the one in the office is 2A
the original 1A that came with the phone is in my night desk
I have 3 and just cycle them in order. If I know I'm leaving for the whole day, I'll just take an extra with me.
3 with an external charger seems perfect for me.
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the one at home is hooked up to my PC so 500mAh
the one in the office is 2A
the original 1A that came with the phone is in my night desk
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Not sure if you saw my Edit ... i saw you said it will not charge the phone, only the spare battery. Does this hold true even when the spare is full? when the spare is pulled out of the charger? If so im kinda confused as to why it has a USB plug for the phone if it wont charge the phone too.
The amazing thing is... since I've moved to this T989
i hardly need to swap batteries at all now... i've only done it a total of 3 times so far since i got the phone, that's almost a month ago.
back on the Nexus S... LOL i'll probably go through 2 battery swap each day, that's why i always carried spare batteries with me
so now I carry 1 and is plenty.
this T989 is really incredible in battery life
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I have 3 and just cycle them in order. If I know I'm leaving for the whole day, I'll just take an extra with me.
3 with an external charger seems perfect for me.
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Not sure if you saw my Edit ... i saw you said it will not charge the phone, only the spare battery. Does this hold true even when the spare is full? when the spare is pulled out of the charger? If so im kinda confused as to why it has a USB plug for the phone if it wont charge the phone too.
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the only time i charge directly to the phone is when i go to sleep
otherwise i'll just let it run down to aprox 14~15% when the Low battery alert pops up, then i switch the battery pack
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If it wont charge the phone whats the point of this thing? to just charge the spare battery?
Will it charge the phone once the spare is charged? Once its taken out?
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it only charges the battery, it doesn't charge the phone
i just those stand, as a stand for easy access to the phone
is like having an extra hand
and it doesn't fall down, like those Cases with a build in Leg
I own this as well and can confirm its amazing especially when Android backuping or flashing a rom it holds your phone so you can see it from across the room its a portable stand for your phone that's tiny elegant and lightweight that also contains an extra battery and charges it. Recommended.
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Are there different verisions of this external charger?
Are there different Versions of this charger or are they the same.
Will the AT&T GS2 version of this charger or maybe the Verizon Galaxy Nexus version work for our TMO T989 GS2?
On ebay they all look the same and most are for the AT&T ver.
This is the one I am thinking of getting. The description says it works with either but all the other docks/chargers like this on ebay specifically say it will not work for our t989.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/SAMSUNG-GAL...610792?pt=PDA_Accessories&hash=item3a6fe87e28
Thanks,
JK
minoch said:
Are there different Versions of this charger or are they the same.
Will the AT&T GS2 version of this charger or maybe the Verizon Galaxy Nexus version work for our TMO T989 GS2?
On ebay they all look the same and most are for the AT&T ver.
This is the one I am thinking of getting. The description says it works with either but all the other docks/chargers like this on ebay specifically say it will not work for our t989.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/SAMSUNG-GAL...610792?pt=PDA_Accessories&hash=item3a6fe87e28
Thanks,
JK
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Please report back and tell us if it works. I'm looking for a cheap way to charge my extra GN battery
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Decided to buy the T-Mobile Spare battery charging system from my local TMO store. The one on ebay might have worked but it was in China. I did not want to wait a month for their shipping. Got 3 batteries now. Nice to have the power problem covered. The external charger is nice it charges very fast too.
JK
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Does it fit with the galaxy nexus extended battery
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I only have the oem 1850mAh batteries. The Galaxy Nexus battery should fit but the little lid on the charger may not close completely but it should charge fine.
JK
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Put battery in external charger when it dropped to 15% on phone
It fully charged in under 2 hours.
JK
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So, my dad and I had an Epic 4G Touch. I was wanting to use the Epic 4G Touch for a project (using the WiiScales android app). I was hoping to use my dad's phone, because my phone won't be able here till the end of the month.
However, the problem with this phone, is that for whatever reason, I can't get the phone to charge. Maybe it actually is charging, but the battery is just so depleted that I can't tell if it is or not.
Is there any better way to determine if it is? I am not sure if I bring it in to the Sprint store they will replace the battery (since we have both upgraded our phones). Or if they will even bother to check it since it is outside the warranty period.
Any suggestions?
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So, my dad and I had an Epic 4G Touch. I was wanting to use the Epic 4G Touch for a project (using the WiiScales android app). I was hoping to use my dad's phone, because my phone won't be able here till the end of the month.
However, the problem with this phone, is that for whatever reason, I can't get the phone to charge. Maybe it actually is charging, but the battery is just so depleted that I can't tell if it is or not.
Is there any better way to determine if it is? I am not sure if I bring it in to the Sprint store they will replace the battery (since we have both upgraded our phones). Or if they will even bother to check it since it is outside the warranty period.
Any suggestions?
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This:
Does Your Samsung Phone Need a New Battery? This …: http://youtu.be/8iTV5LtXEg0
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This:
Does Your Samsung Phone Need a New Battery? This …: http://youtu.be/8iTV5LtXEg0
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It isn't that, I am aware of that issue.
It seems to be the charger cable or the charging port. I can use my S4 charger and it will work fine for the most part, there is still some issues with it charging, but no where near as many issues as before. But if I use the original charger, it just flat out doesn't work.
I am sorta confused as to why Sprint didn't initially try to resolve this when my dad took it into the store, as we have TEP on all our phones, so if the charging port was the problem, it should have been fixed or replaced.
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It isn't that, I am aware of that issue.
It seems to be the charger cable or the charging port. I can use my S4 charger and it will work fine for the most part, there is still some issues with it charging, but no where near as many issues as before. But if I use the original charger, it just flat out doesn't work.
I am sorta confused as to why Sprint didn't initially try to resolve this when my dad took it into the store, as we have TEP on all our phones, so if the charging port was the problem, it should have been fixed or replaced.
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It depends on what they told your dad. Your best bet to get around this issue it to purchase a couple of stock batteries from Ebay. Most will give you a wall charger also. I have 3 E4GT and 5 batteries. Very rarely do I charge via the wall or PC (USB). When the phone is down to about 10%, I change batteries. It takes about 3 hours to charge a battery with the wall charger.
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It depends on what they told your dad. Your best bet to get around this issue it to purchase a couple of stock batteries from Ebay. Most will give you a wall charger also. I have 3 E4GT and 5 batteries. Very rarely do I charge via the wall or PC (USB). When the phone is down to about 10%, I change batteries. It takes about 3 hours to charge a battery with the wall charger.
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Well, I had it on the charger last night, and it was charging. I saw the red LED charging light on it, so I turned the phone off and set it down gently so that the cable and the charger port wouldn't get messed up. I saw the charging led was still going so I just left it that way overnight. When I woke up, the phone had died from being turned off and went from a 35% charge to a 0% charge. So I am not sure what happened there, or what caused the phone to die.
slixzen said:
Well, I had it on the charger last night, and it was charging. I saw the red LED charging light on it, so I turned the phone off and set it down gently so that the cable and the charger port wouldn't get messed up. I saw the charging led was still going so I just left it that way overnight. When I woke up, the phone had died from being turned off and went from a 35% charge to a 0% charge. So I am not sure what happened there, or what caused the phone to die.
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Replace the battery with a charged one. If you lose juice, then the problem is the phone. If not then the problem is with the battery. My guess is that the battery is not holding a charge. If it was charging when you set it down, then it should have been charged when you woke up. Especially if you didn't move the phone during that time frame.
Sounds like you will need to replace the battery.
Hi, I bought a moto 360 and have had it for a few months. I normally charge it overnight via the included dock. However, I have started to notice some issues. Sometimes. On the odd occasion my watch will not charge at all in fact the battery would be drained to 0%!! This happens every now and again....I am not sure why it does this. I tried changing the cable to see if it helps but it could be the dock. Please help
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Hi, I bought a moto 360 and have had it for a few months. I normally charge it overnight via the included dock. However, I have started to notice some issues. Sometimes. On the odd occasion my watch will not charge at all in fact the battery would be drained to 0%!! This happens every now and again....I am not sure why it does this. I tried changing the cable to see if it helps but it could be the dock. Please help
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Hmm what I think is that the adaptor and cable has to be able to support higher amp(maybe around 1.5A) to be able to charge the watch effectively.
Oh right I have a cable charging it at 1.2amps. Not sure what the included charger outputs (it doesn't say)...but could that really be the problem?
Well wireless charging involves travelling through the coils. I guess in order to push the field, a higher current is needed You can try charging your moto 360 having this mind set see if it works.
Massive Problem With Moto
Hey, this is not only your watch, its mostly the case with everyone who lives in a hot place like me in India.
The main problem that isn't allowing the watch to charge, is the room temperature. Turn on air conditioning and then try to charge the watch, It'll charge normally then!
Too Hot as I live in Las Vegas...
I put a small laptop fan cooler under my Moto 360 charger, it has kept the watch cool when charging....
I have had my phone on charge this morning for way over 3 hours. It's not even charged 20%.
I didn't use my pixel stand. But I used a third part wireless charger today at work (I know, only 5w) and it couldn't even get my phone more than 4% charged from where it started. I've been using this wireless charger for a week and left work every day with 98%. Today I'm at 69%. Was there a software update overnight?
mine works perfect. make sure your centered on the stand, i know that one night, i thought it was on the stand correctly, but it wasnt.. and didnt charge at all that night.
The obvious
Any wireless charger even the better ones like the pixel specific one will always be a lot less than the I see n charger.
The idea behind the dock is that whenever you rest or down during the peak hours when you're using it on and off, you end up resting it on the charger, so at the very least it stops depleting.
If you need a proper quick charge boost, like 10 mins before you jump in a taxi at 2am to your new tinder / grindr friend, then use the dedicated quick charge plug
grifforama said:
I have had my phone on charge this morning for way over 3 hours. It's not even charged 20%.
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Reboot your phone and try put it again at the stand. Every time it works for me when mine begin to charge at the stand slowly. Hope Google will fix it.
I had this issue when i first got my pixel stand while using it with a case.
I had the moment case on my phone, and it would only slow charge. I took the case off put it on the pixel stand (which now shows fast charge), took off stand put the case back on and when i put the phone back on now it always shows fast charge.
hope that helps
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I had this issue when i first got my pixel stand while using it with a case.
I had the moment case on my phone, and it would only slow charge. I took the case off put it on the pixel stand (which now shows fast charge), took off stand put the case back on and when i put the phone back on now it always shows fast charge.
hope that helps
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Once I put my Pixel at the stand and it showed "charging slowly". I left it there, but when I checked it some time later it showed "charging rapidly". So, maybe in some cases it needs some time to recognize protocol and switch from slow to rapid charge. It happened several times (but before the last update).
the pixel stand is a buggy expensive mess! it randomly switches to slow charging and even in rapid charging it doesnt charge as fast as Samsung does on wireless charge
Do you guys have an issue with the Clock Screen Saver coming up? If i set it for "charging or docked", it will work while charging via USB every time. But it rarely, if ever, works on the Stand.
I'm a bit disappointed with the stand as well! Especially since it costs so much!!
I've seen people talk about updates?? Is there anything I need to update in regards too the stand??
I have had no problems with the stand at all. Rapid charges, pulls up pics when the lights are on, switches to clock when I turn the light off, and initiates do not disturb. All good here.
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varun.gid said:
... the pixel stand is a buggy expensive mess! ...
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scmeiss said:
... pulls up pics when the lights are on...
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I can't believe you're satisfied with the POS called PhotoFrame... It stops for the DUMBEST reason and NEVER RESUMES the slideshow! WTF! Why is grabbing something near the pixel stand STOPS the slideshow? Why is a SPAM CALL stops the slideshow? But that is really not a big problem if the slideshow is smart enough RESUMES after a period of time. But it never does! It's a BROKEN FUNCTION and they have the nerve to charge us money for it... A wireless charger aint worth $100!
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I can't believe you're satisfied with the POS called PhotoFrame... It stops for the DUMBEST reason and NEVER RESUMES the slideshow! WTF! Why is grabbing something near the pixel stand STOPS the slideshow? Why is a SPAM CALL stops the slideshow? But that is really not a big problem if the slideshow is smart enough RESUMES after a period of time. But it never does! It's a BROKEN FUNCTION and they have the nerve to charge us money for it... A wireless charger aint worth $100!
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I'm even disappointed that I had to use free store credit to purchase this glorified wireless charger. It seems to offer a lot of great ideas that fall short of poor execution and logic that simply makes no sense.
An update has just been released for the Pixel Stand app.
What pixel stand App? Have search on the words in Play store. Nothing with the specific phase.
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What pixel stand App? Have search on the words in Play store. Nothing with the specific phase.
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I have no idea what to search for, but here is the link.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.apps.dreamliner
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I have no idea what to search for, but here is the link.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.apps.dreamliner
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Ok, already installed on my device
Says no longer available
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Probably getting an Android 10 build up, but I don't know. I have two of them, but I don'e use any of the actual app functionality.
This started happening a couple of weeks ago, prior to the latest update.
When I put my P6P on the Stand 2 at the end of the day, I get the little sound and animation that it started charging. After a few seconds I see the message at the bottom that it's "charging wirelessly" and a time until full. I have the stand set on Max Charging and adaptive charging turned off. After a minute or two, the fan comes on. About 10-15 minutes later, it stops charging, (the message goes away and the current % is shown), and the phone is really hot. No matter how long I leave it, even overnight, it never starts charging again. The phone remains really hot until I remove it from the stand.
About 50% of the time, if I reboot it, it will behave normally again, but last night nothing I did would get it to charge wirelessly. I ended up plugging it into the wire. It never gets warm when charging on the wire.
It has been working fine since I purchased it in Nov. This just started a few weeks ago. Has anyone else seen this?
Dave
Try cable charging.
Charging will disengage if the battery temperature gets too hot, about >103F
Fast charging may disengage if the temperature gets beyond 95-100F.
Ideal charging battery start temp is 82F.
Erratic charging can indicate a failed battery.
Any swelling is a failure, replace asap if so.
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Try cable charging.
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As indicated in my OP, cable charging works fine every time. The phone doesn't even get warm. It's only wireless charging that's an issue, and not every time I try to charge it wirelesly. It's like the phone decides to stop accepting the power, and it starts to heat up because of it.
I take it you don't have a second wireless stand to rule out if it's the phone or your STand 2 that's behaving badly?
I have been using a genric set-up from charger to stand with my P6P and did have charging issues a few months ago with wireless charging not working correctly but the May update fixed it.
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As indicated in my OP, cable charging works fine every time. The phone doesn't even get warm. It's only wireless charging that's an issue, and not every time I try to charge it wirelesly. It's like the phone decides to stop accepting the power, and it starts to heat up because of it.
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May be a hardware failure in the phone or stand.
Remove a case if it has one and try.
C ports generally last for thousands of charge cycles and cable charging is better for the battery, produces less heat.
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I take it you don't have a second wireless stand to rule out if it's the phone or your STand 2 that's behaving badly?
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No, unfortunately I only have one stand. I'll keep trying things to see if I can narrow down the exact situation when it occurs. I was mainly checking to see if anyone else had something similar happen and there was a quick fix.
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C ports generally last for thousands of charge cycles and cable charging is better for the battery, produces less heat.
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Yeah, and I've always used cable charging on all my phones in the past with no issues. I thought the stand was cool in that it could fast charge and keep the phone upright so it's easy to read in the middle of the night. I'd really like to keep using it. It was stupid expensive and I'd hate to let it go unused for that price.
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Dave
I've been experiencing similar problems with my Stand. Sometimes it charges normally, sometimes it charges REALLY, and I mean really slow... And sometimes I get the "Not charging" message for whatever reason.
I think it's gotta be an issue with the adaptive charging on the Pixel 6 Pro, because every time I put my other phone on the stand, my S21U, it charges without any issues.
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Yeah, and I've always used cable charging on all my phones in the past with no issues. I thought the stand was cool in that it could fast charge and keep the phone upright so it's easy to read in the middle of the night. I'd really like to keep using it. It was stupid expensive and I'd hate to let it go unused for that price.
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Dave
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Yeah, I feel you. It could be firmware, a SEU which are rare but do happen. A reflash would fix it if so. Probably not worth the trouble to try and more likely to be hardware.
Cable charging be the best plan for now I think.
The old micro connectors were horrible and invariably would fail. The C connectors are much more robust. This N10+ is heavily used and the C port jack is still tight and has well over a thousand cycles plus a few drops and pulls. Even the original cable is still AOK.
Just came across this thread while looking for similar problems on my P4 with a 1st Gen stand. The phone showed the normal 'xx% charging wirelessly' display then at 79% it changed to simply '79%'. After a while the message went back to 'xx%charging wirelessly'. I took the phone off the charger and using a utility app called 'inware' I looked at the battery temp which was at 41.5C/106F.
So I'm guessing that the phone will stop charging when the battery gets hot and resume when it cools down a bit. What is 'too hot' and when does it cause damage, I have no idea. Google told me in a chat session the other day that it's perfectly acceptable to leave the phone on the stand all day. Personally, I take it off at about 80% charge which lasts me all day.
Mine also has this behaviour, taking it off and placing it back on continues to charge
I just sent my stand back for similar reasons - not good when a $12 Qi charger from Amazon was doing a better (and faster!) job charging.
I sent mine back too & am now using a charger that I bought at IKEA for £5. It's a shame as I thought that Google would have made more effort to integrate the charger & phone. Oh well, bling gone!