Hello everyone,
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EDIT 2020/10/27: I’m not trying to ‘badmouth’ this (or any other) product; my complaint is that it doesn’t allow me to manually change the battery type once it has incorrectly detected it, contrary to what its manual says.
Having a problem with my MiBoxer C8 charger: I overdischarged a LG HE4 18650 battery down to about 1.2V (I know, not recommended — stupid piece of electronics being powered by it had no auto-poweroff, and was left on long after the battery drained), and when I insert it on the charger, it’s recognized as a NiCD/NiMH battery (due to the voltage, I imagine).
When I try to set the battery type to Li-Ion 4.2V (following the manual: by long-pressing the [MODE] button, followed by short presses), the battery type doesn’t change: it keeps displaying “NiCd/NiMH”.
The weird thing is, the manual explicitly says this charger can recharge and even ‘restore’ overdischarged Li-Ion batteries!
What am I missing?
Thanks in advance,
— Durval.