I have been seeing sporadic freezing on two different Clip Zips for about year now, and it appears to be getting worse.
When my Clip Zip freezes, it stops accepting button input and the screen stops refreshing. About 90% of the time it freezes when I switch to a new song. The screen will show the new song's info, with a time of 0:00, but never begin playing it. The other 10% of the time it will freeze in the middle of a song. The screen will freeze and buttons won't take input, but the song will continue to play for a minute or two before stopping.
Once it freezes, my only option is to hold the power for ten seconds to reboot. There is no error message.
I first started seeing this problem on my old 4GB Clip Zip well over a year ago. I would get to hear around 15-20 songs before it froze. Less than a year ago, I bought a new 4GB Clip Zip because the buttons on my old one were going, and it had the same freezing problem right after I loaded Rockbox. I've kept up to date with the latest builds, but the freezes seem to be happening more frequently; I average about 5 songs before a freeze. All my music is on a 32 GB microSD, about 24 GB is used. My music is about half MP3 and half OGG, but it freezes on either format.
I don't think the problem is from corrupt files or a bad card because no one song will cause the Clip Zip to freeze every time. If it does freeze on a song,
omegle xender I can reboot and play the same song all the way through without a problem. I can also plug my Clip Zip into my computer and play the same song off the card through Windows, and Windows error-checking on the card reveals no errors.
Can anyone suggest something that alleviate this problem? And, have any other Clip Zip users experienced this problem?
Thanks!