I purchased a refurbished Fuze 4GB about 6 months ago, and recently the screen is not turning on at all. The device itself turns on - it still plays music - but the screen remains black. This used to happen only occasionally, but lately, the screen has only been lighting up when I plug in my device to my compter, and it immediately goes black afterwards. What might be the cause of this, and is there a way to fix it?
I, myself have a Fuzev2 with a cracked screen. I can only see portions of it. I moved on for a while with newer Fuze+.
However, for sentimental reasons I decided to “revive” the Fuze using Rockbox. Rockbox has a text-to-speech feature intended to make the player usable for the blind. If you have no screen, Rockbox might be a good solution for you.
However, I tend to find that Rockbox spells everything a little too fast for you to figure out what the computer-generated voice is spelling. Also, it mispronounces A’s as I’s. If you don’t want to fork out any money, though, Rockbox might still be a good solution.