Comments on: MP3 Player Battery Guide

By: Brian Fender

Brian Fender — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 00:21:05 +0000

I have bought a cheap sylvania mp3 player. It did not come with a charger. Does it charge when it is plugged into a USB port on my laptop? very confused and not very technical. Please help me. Thank you very much, Brian

By: khosro hashemi

khosro hashemi — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 05:31:42 +0000

hi there , i have a dhh200 which its battery seems to be damaged ,i am in iran and how can i repair it ? after any charging it shows : low battery.
thanks in advance for ur guide.

By: Hans

Hans — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 02:15:53 +0000

Add me to the list as well. I prefer devices running on standard rechargable batteries (AA or AAA type). Because usually I want to decide for myself whether and when to replace a gadget. I am very satisfied with LSD type batteries. They do their work pretty well on devices like my remote controls, clocks, audio field recorder, GPS, variometer etc. I accept proprietary battery designs for devices that require a higher volumic energy like some cameras or very small devices like cell phones. But even those batteries must be user-replaceable. Fixed battery = no buy.

Andreas, do you firmly believe the 99% majority is too lazy to write comments?

By: tom

tom — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 17:43:00 +0000

I’d like to know about any modern mp3 player that uses 1 AA battery to power it. Anybody know of one?

By: zen V plus

zen V plus — Sun, 07 Aug 2011 04:03:31 +0000

Ok so i understand. I know now that after years the battery capacity decreases. And i also understand 99% of people will replace their mp3. Well sadly im that 1% that still has an mp3 from 5 years ago. Currently i can get my battery to (what is says) 55%-60%. Which is why i looked this up. Now… I do need to keep my mp3 because well i dont have any money to replace it. Is their a way to get it back up to 100% without going threw anything that i would most likely screw up.

Mp3 Model: Creative Zen V Plus
Firmware Version: 1.03.03_0.05.09
Manufactured: 6/?/2006

P.S. It was shut off for about a year before it started being used again.

By: Heywood Jablome

Heywood Jablome — Sun, 24 Apr 2011 22:25:00 +0000

I am also looking for a new player to replace my beloved iRiver 795 Flash Player. It runs on AA and still works great several years after I bought it… the only reason I want to find a new player is the need for more storage capacity, plus realizing the age of it I know it can’t last forever.
The only thing preventing me from buying a new player is that I refuse to spend money on a throwaway player without a replaceable battery… for all of the same reasons as so many others have already mentioned above. (environmental, convenience, common sense, disgusting trend of the disposable mentality, etc)

By: yt

yt — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 13:22:01 +0000

can some one tell me where to buy this battery in malaysia & how much it will be? thanks.

By: cromag

cromag — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 05:00:02 +0000

Add me to the list of people who cannot see the sense of throwing out a 3 year old player just because the batteries won’t take a decent charge. My first “good” player, a Creative Nomad Jukebox 2, had a HUGE Li-Ion battery that was user-replaceable — one reason it lasted almost 6 years.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Sat, 26 Feb 2011 12:12:52 +0000

What a load of BS.

I want a player that takes AA/AAA batteries. I don’t want anything else.

Why?

Because I don’t want to ditch the player when the battery is dead. I don’t want to be forced into buying a new player when the hardware is perfectly fine. I don’t want to upgrade. I use rechargeable AA/AAAs, which, frankly, is far more environmentally friendly than throwing away an entire player.

By: dc

dc — Sun, 20 Feb 2011 17:45:07 +0000

I’m just shopping now for a player for my wife to use with audio books. As far as replaceable batteries go, I am using a PDA I got in 2003 that takes a standard SD card that I can copy whatever I want to play. I can still use this thing for 5-6 hour stretches.

I also use eneloop batteries because they are cheaper over the long run. There IS no reason these things cannot be designed to take standardized batteries. My PDA has the “built in” battery, and you will note that no, I do not have any desire to “upgrade”. My wireless head phones can use eneloops. The form factors of all these built in batteries are not that different that they would impede design possibilities.
BTW, there is a difference with a true rapid charger: one thing you don’t seem to know about lithium chemistry is that they can handle fairly large current in either direction [thus their use in cars]. However, there is a price to pay in that the charger needs to have a “brain” and it does shorten life somewhat.