just a small question

[ThaCrip]

i just noticed about 30minutes ago my Sansa e250 was outside in the car for a while, it's 8f (-13c) outside, so it was out in 8f temps for about 2-3hours and when i got back into the car and powered on the  sansa device it got to that boot screen with the text and it sorta lagged there noticeably longer than it usually does (usually it's quick) and instead of quickly switching to rockbox like it normally does it booted the original sansa firmware then i powered it off and back on and it seemed fine after that.

i assume extreme cold weather can cause issues from reading from the internal flash or something?

just wanted to hear what people think as it appears fine now as it only did that when it was really cold on it's first power on in 8f (-13c) weather.

p.s. it even seemed the LCD was a little slow to react but i assume that's pretty much normal in cold temps like what i experienced (i.e. 8f)

[Chronon]

The cold temperatures can affect the liquid crystal as well as the chemistry in the battery.  Sluggish switching of the LCD sounds normal.  I don't know why it switched to the SanDisk firmware at start up, but probably someone can come up with a plausible explanation.

[ThaCrip]

ok thanks for the reply... but it appears no one else is posting so it might be something rare i assume?

[Multiplex]

Well if you had brought it inside I might suspect condensation on the PCB triggering the false button detection - I suppose it is just possible that your breath caused a similar issue.

I used to repair CRT monitors - we never touched anything delivered in the winter till it had chance to warm up to workshop temerature High Voltage and condensation is not a good combination.