Hello
I've had my iRiver H120 for about a year now and in the last few months I've noticed a problem with my battery and just wondering if it's just a battery getting old or something else.
The problem is - I'll charge the player up and everything is fine and I'll use it for a few hours for two days in a row. At the end of that I'll turn the player off with about 40-60% battery life.
The next day I come to use it I'll switch the player on and it will flash 0% life left. At this point the flashing 0% will rise slowly to 40-60% after about 5 minutes or say that the battery needs charging after about 5 seconds and switches off - even though the last reading it gave the day before was 40-60% life left.
Now I've noticed that whenever the player gives a voltage reading of anything under 3.80V on boot the player will ask to be recharged.
What I've found though is that if I plug the player into my computer and turn it on, delaying the boot process, this gives it a bit of a chance for the voltage to rise and thus when I remove it from the computer the battery life will start at about 20% and then rise to whatever it was when I was playing it fine last time.
This has been happening with all the builds for the past few months and I'm currently using a build from a few days ago, so I don't think it's a code problem.
So I'm just wondering whether this normally happens when a battery is on the way out, or maybe it's a loose connection or something.
Sorry for the long post, thanks in advance for any advice.
Alex