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Once again...
May. 13th, 2011 08:35 pmI picked up another used Sansa Fuze (a red 4G this time) from the same eBay vendor, for $21+shipping. He sells 4 to 6 of them a day, I watched for several days but they kept hitting $30 and up, so I just waited.
I'm now using the silver 8G (RockBox'd) I picked up from him two weeks ago, Tom has my old blue one after having lost his Sansa Clip in DC last week (just after I got the 8G spare). I want at least one spare because they don't make this model anymore. I may try for yet another just for good measure.
The battery on the blue one is definitely on its way out; the 8G lasts at least 2 or 3 times longer on a charge. The blue one still lasts a good 6 hours so it's not horrible. I have a replacement battery for it but I don't know if I can get it apart and back together again cleanly so I'm waiting until it really needs replacement. I wasn't sure if it was the battery's fault before because in the time that it got really bad I'd started using RockBox with features that probably ate up CPU, mainly playing audiobooks with both speed and pitch adjustments (I'm listening at between 140 and 185% speed, and sometimes crank the pitch of the reader's voice up or down a bit).
In case you hadn't figured it out, I really love this player. I've never found a better model. The new version of the fuze is touch screen and it stinks. They went and fixed something that wasn't broken.
I'm now using the silver 8G (RockBox'd) I picked up from him two weeks ago, Tom has my old blue one after having lost his Sansa Clip in DC last week (just after I got the 8G spare). I want at least one spare because they don't make this model anymore. I may try for yet another just for good measure.
The battery on the blue one is definitely on its way out; the 8G lasts at least 2 or 3 times longer on a charge. The blue one still lasts a good 6 hours so it's not horrible. I have a replacement battery for it but I don't know if I can get it apart and back together again cleanly so I'm waiting until it really needs replacement. I wasn't sure if it was the battery's fault before because in the time that it got really bad I'd started using RockBox with features that probably ate up CPU, mainly playing audiobooks with both speed and pitch adjustments (I'm listening at between 140 and 185% speed, and sometimes crank the pitch of the reader's voice up or down a bit).
In case you hadn't figured it out, I really love this player. I've never found a better model. The new version of the fuze is touch screen and it stinks. They went and fixed something that wasn't broken.
