most older oder newer cells don't come off any type of commercial charger at 4.200V because of singularly one phenomenon, the charger's termination current. the termination current is not even a phenomenon!, but a technical detail which is inherent to the make of the charger. hobby chargers are programmed to terminate the charge at 10% of the user set current, or at 20% for FAST CHARGE, and there is a minimum: the termination current doesn't get lower than a ~30mA average, even though the hobby charger may display stuff like "0.01A lol", so the hobby charger formula is:
20% > 10% ≥ TC ≥ 30mA
with this primitive formula used in hobby chargers your typical used cell can't come off at 4.20V.
but fact is that the cell would come off at a (rather) stable exact 4.200V reading, no matter how old or new or abused the cell is, if the charging current did not terminate but continue the CV-charging phase 'infinitely' by continuously decreasing the charging current for another 12-24hr down to say a level of 0.001A or 0.0001A and then trickle charge with such an infinitesimally small current.
problem is, no unhacked charger known to mankind does such a thing. trickle charging li-ion batteries is bad for the health anyway.
for example, if the hobby charger current was set to 1.0A, then the termination current will be exactly 0.1A (100mA). That's a common number but in practice too high: with 100mA, the new/old battery will read notably less than 4.200V on your multimeter. 10 seconds after taking out the cell from the hobby charger, voltage will have dropped to say 4.18V depending on the health/condition/age of the cell.
if the current was set to 0.05A, then the termination current will be 30mA (average), not 0.005A, and you're getting closer to the 4.20V target but still clearly not there, especially with old abused cells.
in theory, stable 4.200V off a (hacked) charger is possible with any old abused cell, in practice, because of the 'phenomenon' in commercial hobby chargers:
new cell, low user-set current (e.g. anything between 0.05—0.3A) => comes off at 4.19V
old cell, high user-set current (e.g. 1.0—5.0A) => comes off at 4.14V
Maybe HKJ can sign these pipifax claims? 