What does a red battery icon indicate?

Question

While charging my Jellybean 4.1 device at my PCs' USB, I see the following red battery icon in the notification bar:

badbattery

What does the red color indicate?

are you using the original cable / charger? – geffchang Aug 05 '13 at 14:04 — geffchang, Aug 05 '13 at 14:04

score 6 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 06 '13 at 06:27

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It was a hot battery alert, so the charging was interrupted for safety reasons:

Overheat

answered Aug 06 '13 at 06:27

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