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sansa battery life
Icarus:
Are you using an official Sansa cable? I'm not, and I'm having the same damn problem.
corvetteguy:
I'm using the one that came with the player.
scharkalvin:
I wasn't getting only 3-4 hours, but I was getting less than 12 (maybe 6).
Then again, I bought a reconditioned player, which might have come with a used battery!
Could try a new battery from an official sansa source.
AutobahnSHO:
--- Quote from: corvetteguy on November 02, 2007, 09:55:57 AM ---It can't be the battery because I only changed the firmware a few days ago after having this player since July 2006 and consistanly getting 17 hours of playback after charging for about 2 hours every morning.
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Batteries are finicky- they do deteriorate over time and especially if you went from a low-drain situation to a higher-drain it could affect battery life.
Try fully discharging/charging a couple times?
The battery kit from Sandisk is only $20.
Chronon:
--- Quote from: AutobahnSHO on November 28, 2007, 08:55:23 AM ---Try fully discharging/charging a couple times?
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That shouldn't affect anything. Li+ batteries don't suffer from memory effects like NiMH batteries do. I would lean more toward deterioration, as you suggested in the first sentence. Wikipedia estimates a 20% drop in capacity per year for Li+ batteries.
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