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Glad you got your issue resolved. I've heard so many good things about Sansas, but my son had one that must've been a dud. Only worked right for a couple weeks.
I thought mine was a dud until I realized my Media Player update didn't work and I didn't have the right version of it for the Sansa player to work. I was wracking my brains to figure out what was wrong, and it turned out to be something simple.
Yeah, we tried all that stuff with their service folks, but it was still dead. Luckily it was pretty affordable, or I would have been more upset.
After only a couple of weeks, I'd have returned the unit rather than just giving up.
John wrote: "After only a couple of weeks, I'd have returned the unit rather than just giving up."Yes; why not return it rather than taking the loss?
Once in a while a Sansa Clip will just stop. I've found that letting it sit for a while, a couple of hours perhaps, then pressing BOTH the Power and Menu buttons and holding them for a count of 20 can jump-start it. This has worked for me on a 2-year-old Clip and for others, too.
The "clip" on mine finally snapped off, as I've heard eventually happens, but that's better for me as I never used it, so that only made the unit bulkier.
The 8GB Sansa's clip is supposed to be sturdier. One of the reasons I went with the the 8GB. I want to use it during workouts, and just clip it to my shirt.
Oh I probably should have exchanged it, but I was fed up with how much energy I had already put into it, and it just seemed easier to let him use the nano I wasn't using. Logic doesn't always prevail in my world. :-)
CatBookMom wrote: "Once in a while a Sansa Clip will just stop. I've found that letting it sit for a while, a couple of hours perhaps, then pressing BOTH the Power and Menu buttons and holding them for a count of 20 can jump-start it. This has worked for me on a 2-year-old Clip and for others, too."I've found this too, that out of the blue it just appears to have died. In every case (3 times) after a bit of time (few hours to a couple of days) the Clip has worked fine again by just turning it on. It happened with one just a matter of days after getting it, and with another after using it with no problem for years (but could be the same one, I have 2 identical, a mistake maybe should have got different colour?)... so I don't understand it but just wait out the tantrum and get out the spare
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aprilla wrote: "CatBookMom wrote: "Once in a while a Sansa Clip will just stop. I've found that letting it sit for a while, a couple of hours perhaps, then pressing BOTH the Power and Menu buttons and holding them..."I tried that too, but it went from being kind of temperamental to being totally dead.
The only time I ever had a situation resembling what you folks are describing happened when I prematurely messed with the player before it had a chance to fully refresh itself after disconnecting. Ended up having to format the drives, losing my Overdrive library books, and reinstalling everything else.
I'm hoping I won't have any of the problems you all have described. I'm not a very techy person, so would have no idea how to format the drives, etc. I felt relieved that I was able to figure out my problem on my own, but that's as techy as I get! lol
When I plug my Sansa Clip MP3 plyater into a working USB port, it doesn't show up in My Computer. It makes a little sound when I connected it, but nothing shows up. The device seems to be working as I can scan through menus and such. I've verified the USB port works because I synced my Blackberry to test it. I'm running Windows XP and have downloaded the current version of Media Player.
Help, please!