My Sansa clip+ won't turn on what so ever

Leaving it plugged for 2 days didn’t help :expressionless: I have to throw it away. 

Leave it alone for a few days, as Saratoga suggested. Believe it or not, this sometimes works.

And sometimes leaving it plugged in and not in use for a few days (2-3) can help–the trickle charge gets the player up and running again.

Dude. I don’t know if I’ve ever been so relieved. At first I held it for a minute I’m like “it’s not working…” so I let go of the button and sat there. And I decided to try again and it turned on right away!

So it will take 3-4 hours to fully charge? Man. But thank you SOO much for helping me!!! I’ve NEVER been happier!

About 3 hours to charge it–the battery icon on the player’s screen will show as full.

Congratulations!   :slight_smile:

thank you…my sansa clip would not turn on as well…i thought it was toast…ruined my day…almost threw it away…decided to check the web and it turned on after the suggestion…whew life saver,lol

I am having the same problem.  Was playing it earlier, turned it off, now it won’t come back on.  Tried the reset options multiple times and nada.   This seems like a recurring problem for this device.  

just wanted to add that my player would not reset until I removed the micro sd card. It reboots then put card back in no problem.

Interesting extra detail–thanks for the report!

Oh, thank goodness. I’ve had it for a year or two with no problems. I charged it overnight, then my kids messed with the computer, and it wouldn’t turn it on anymore. After I held the power button down, I had to do it again a couple times. It seems good now.

The power/reset button is a wonderful thing.   :slight_smile:

I have a sansa clip+. I have owned it less than a week.

It is recognized by the computer, I can add and remove songs. 

The screen never lights up, even when attached to the computer. I charged it all day yesterday on my desktop, but forgot to turn it off before I went to bed. So, charging it again today. Should I move to an A/C charger? I have one of those.

I have updated the firmware, and everything. Why is it not actually lighting up and powering on?

Call 1-866-SANDISK and get it replaced.

Have you removed the protective strip from the screen?

It’s got to be turning on if it is recognized and seen by your computer. Your computer won’t ‘see’ it if it’s not powered on.

So, it sounds like JaZZ’s suggestion is valid. Make sure you have peeled off the screen protector film. It has an screen-shot image on it making it ‘appear’ to be on when it isn’t. But it covers up the real screen, so you can press buttons till you’re blue In the face and that image won’t change and you can’t see under it.

Just wanted to say thanks for this. My refurb zip stopped turning on, and wouldnt even connect to PC just outside the Amazon 30 day returns. I held the power button 30 secs, and that fixed it. Thanks!!!

It Didnt Work so im trying plan “b” if it dont work ima pull out its chip and use that for a mp3 creation >:D

 Well this works until it happens again. Id say about once every couple days it becomes totally unresponsive. I have to do the reset again and it works for awhile, etc. etc.

What you might try doing is, reapply the latest firmware–there could be a firmware glitch, which can develop over time.  See the firmware thread at the top of this forum–very easy and safe to do.

As the Designated Geek, a friend handed me her Clip+ yesterday (she knows I have one, too), and said “Fix it, please?”

It wont’ boot. 

I’ve tried several different combinations of holding down the power button, plugging it in to a linux machine, an OS X machine, etc.   I’ve only ever gotten it to display the ‘flower’ startup logo (that’s what I call it), but it won’t go any farther than that.

The OS X machine says it’s a “4.2MB UNDEF Storage Media”.

The device has got to be several years old; she doesn’t have much hope for it.   Still, I’d be a big o’l hero if I could get it working again…!  

[edit]  Any chance reformatting it would do me any good?  The OS X Disk Utility shows it as format-able…