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Howdy fellow Freaks! I’m back from my Caribbean vacation – no I didn’t try to take my iPhone, I know about those crazy AT&T data charges! – and it’s time to recharge my beloved device. Look carefully at the pic here, please.

Yes, I saw the dreaded red bar. So I plugged iPhone into my MacBookPro and went about my daily business. 5 hours later, still red bar. Hunh?? I thought to myself. 5 hours!?!?

But, well, maybe iPhone was really really tired. I let another 2 hours pass. Flipped over iPhone, woke it up, still red bar. Whuuuh??

At hour 8 I was getting depressed when I scrutinized the icon in the top right-hand corner. Yup, the plug, not the spark.

iPhone was actually charged, but the red bar hadn’t been updating to the sliding green progress one to indicate charge level.

Long-time readers know I have a virgin 4MB iPhone. So it’s not a consequence of a hack or jailbreak.

I restarted my iPhone with baited breath. Whooooo. . . .

Breathing out, breathing in. . . .iPhone returned, with a normal home screen, and the upper-right hand charge icon appeared full, as would be expected.

If this happens again, I’m reporting it as an official firmware issue! Because I’m not the only one it’s happened to.

Freaks, have any of you seen this yourselves?