I’ve got a 4GB SanDisk sansa clip plus firmware V01.02.17A. I’ve been using it quite happily for about a year. Primarily to listen to audio books in mp3 format.
But just last week it developed a very annoying problem. Suddenly it quit keeping track of my location in an audiobook. No bookmarks. If I am 15 minutes into chapter 3 of a story and turn the player off, when I turn it back on it should go right back to where it was before. But now it doesn’t. When I power up, it goes back to the main menu, and if I navigate to that audio book, it has no memory of where I was listening.
I’ve tried resetting to factory settings from the settings menu, no change. I pulled out my SD card, that made no difference. I held down the power button for 15 seconds, and still the same problem.
Has anyone else had this problem?, and does anyone have a suggested solution?
Never had to pause it before. But I did test with that just to see. Pausing and turing the player off gets the same result as just turning it off while playing. When I turn it back on, it goes directly to the main menu and even digging down to the correct audiobook does not remember where it was.
I’ve got 5 audiobooks loaded in the Audiobook folder on my player right now. They are all free audiobooks from www.librivox.org in mp3 format. And all 5 books behave exactly the same way. No bookmarking whatsoever.
There were problems with the file system. Probably caused by me letting it get too full. Books that I deleted were being trashed on the same drive instead of actually deleted, so it filled up and then things started going haywire.
Solution: I formated the drive. Put my books back on it, and the problem is gone, everything works fine now and my audiobooks bookmark just like they should.
