Pause button and sleep/powersave issues

MP3 players Sansa Clip | Clip+
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Love my Clip+, but there are a couple of real annoyances compared to other players I have had. Maybe there is something I am missing…

  1. Pause often stops working for me. Not sure if this happens in music mode, i typically use it for podcasts, but a significant % of the time when i hit the “play/pause” button, it won’t actually pause, it just cycles to pause and back to play in a flash. I can sometimes get it to work by going back to the main menu and fidgeting around a bit and then coming back to the current song, but that is annoying.

  2. The sleep/powersave operation seems poor in general. i would like it to just turn off after a few seconds if i stop the player- my walkman does this (if i hit pause and lay it down and forget to turn it off, it powers down almost immediately). With the existing system, it is my understanding that you are just setting a limit for how long it will play with no interaction, with a 15 minute setting, if I am listening to a podcast for 15 minutes, it will just go into powersave. this seems wrong. I don’t mind having the option for a hardcore shutdown, but i would probably set that for an hour and just have the unit turn off if it is paused like other players do.

i am on the original firmware, didn’t see that the new one addressed these issues.

thanks! 

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My pause pauses too

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Sorry, I forgot to add in that I have sleep set to “off” and it still turns off occasionally. Maybe it isn’t the issue and my player is just a bit flakey. first few times it happened I expected that the battery had died, but it wasn’t even low. I did have the powersave set to 15 minutes tho, so I thought maybe that was shutting it down, too.

 Weird about the pause button. Maybe I will try updating firmware and see if the refreshment shakes some cobwebs loose.

Thanks! 

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The battery monitor is a little… off.  Hopefully they will fix it in a firmware update, because it switches off at a ridiculous level.

It has been known to shut down randomly for no apparent reason.  But not often, I think 2 or 3 times since I got it.

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I also experience issues with the Pause button - I’ve had two Clip+ which have done this (I took the first one back because I was having other issues).

It’s an intermittent thing, and I have to turn the unit off and back on again to fix it. I’ve just upgraded to 01.02.15A, so I’ll see if that changes things.

Still love my Clip+ to bits, though… :slight_smile:

Mark