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70PercentOff:
I like to listen to my music player as it charges; Not by accessing the player's music from my computer, but by just using the player as it charges because I don't want to lose the fade on the volume and the other features like the advanced EQ to my computer's sound card.. so what I've discovered is that while your sansa is booted in rockbox, slide in the right corner of the cable into the player, and just the right corner, until the charging image appears in the upper left, then slide in the rest of the cable. It will not display the 'connected' screen and instead charge while maintaining full usability ^^. Just thought I'd share this.

-70%Off.

Llorean:
If you'd read our posting guidelines, you'd know that

1) Static information doesn't belong in the forums
and
2) Searched the forums, which have several posts that describe the button you can simply hold down while connecting USB to enter charge mode, and allow you to keep playing music instead of trying to connect.

bloodbath:

--- Quote from: Llorean on November 17, 2007, 03:13:59 PM ---
2) Searched the forums, which have several posts that describe the button you can simply hold down while connecting USB to enter charge mode, and allow you to keep playing music instead of trying to connect.

--- End quote ---

Where might I find these posts?  I've looked but found only one mention of this.  However, it was for the Ipod.  Thanks in advance.

Shadowstitch:
It's always faster and easier to just provide the correct answer for posterity and lock the thread than browbeat someone for not finding a solution they didn't know existed. Especially since google has indexed this thread for queries regarding charging the sansa while playing. ;D

Hell, I searched for days and still haven't found the mythical "several posts" in question.

However, I did find this little nugget of info at Abiforums:
http://www.anythingbutipod.com/forum/showthread.php?t=639

"Hit the Voice Record button on the side and then plug in your player to the computer USB port. You will notice nothing really happens. Hit Stop Recording and then exit. You will be back in the main screen but yet the battery is showing that it is being recharged."

They do mention it seems to be an older trick, and it may not work on the newer firmwares -- if there's another (or more official) way to do this, either with the original Sansa FW or Rockbox, please enlighten us or kindly link us to the correct thread with the answer.

jstookey:
On my Sansa e250 with Rockbox, if I hold the center button (select) when I connect the device to a usb port, I can continue using it while charging.

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