01.02.09 Firmware and battery charge

SanDisk MP3 players Sansa® Clip | Sansa® Clip+
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Updated my 8GB Clip+ to the 01.02.09 FW.  Initially it seemed to make no difference to the erratic battery charge problem.  However, after doing a reset (hold power button at least 15 seconds to reset), the unit appears to be behaving more as I would expect, regarding battery capacity, charging, and state of charge indicator.

Not perfect, but fairly “normally”.

One other thing I did:  Turn down display brightness to lowest setting.  (That’s what caused me to do a system reset, because of the known issue with 01.02.09 FW that causes a lockup if brightness setting screen is allowed to remain displayed thru an auto-display-off cycle.)  Not sure if lowest display brightness setting has anything to do with battery charging etc., but I’m leaving it on lowest setting anyway.

FWIW…

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Thanks for the tip!  Interesting.

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Thanks loads for your information.  I just received this player as a gift and could not get it to charge.  I followed your input and it works!  Thank you so much, it’s alive, alive, yea!