Fuze bug report...

SanDisk MP3 players Sansa® Fuze™
1

Hi there,

I encountered an odd problem (a bug?).

After the battery died *, I plugged in a USB (smart) charger, and the fuze did not turn on, I left it charging for over 30m. I tried resetting (pwr-on for 10s). Once I disconnected the fuze from the USB charger it booted. Next I plugged it back in, and it charged properly.

Bruce

* The TMI:

I wanted to get a better feel for the battery life. The battery symbol seems to show its half discharged, awfully quickly (~2-3 hour of playing music) when its got about 3/4 more life left. So I decided to test this more thoroughly. I got a message, “battery low,” then, "turning off " (forgot what it said). Within 30 seconds time. I ran it on and off for approx. 3-4, work days (used less than 6 hours, per each day on average).

2

Do you mean the screen didn’t come on to show charging?

It could be something specific to whatever charger you are using. (Maybe it’s too smart.) 

It could be that somehow a connection didn’t work that one time.

It could be some misbehavior of a completely discharged battery.

Really, if resetting fixes it I wouldn’t worry too deeply about it.  Whatever it is, it’s not going to get fixed. The Fuze is discontinued.

3

When I plugged in the charger, nothing happened, it did power up at all.

I got the older fuse because there was numerous reports of malfunctioning Fuse+

I wanted the newer unit, just not the new problems.

Every one was happy with the older fuse, as I am (minuses the slight bugs).