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Originally Posted by arviverona";p="
you just cant say its dead..its still working..its maybe the battery..or the cable that does not charge the battery..sometimes its a lot simpler than a dead player...you must think shallow first than going to the deeper points..
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Its a unit, not a system, if the battery fails, its a dead UNIT, its not designed to be a serviceable part, so it is dead.
It may still have the ability to process and store information when connected to USB, but will it work in my pocket as an mp3 player, no.
It would be wrong to call it dead if the headphones have failed, but the internal battery and/or charging circuitry are not replaceable or external.
Now as to if the battery can be replaced, I guess the battery is a specific size to this player, and all from one factory, so if a few players fail, I think its a fair assumption that the entire production run of batterys is a little suspect.
If its the charging circuitry that failed then its because its being overworked, switching circuitry can only switch so much current, if a few of these players are failing, then its also a safe bet that maybe the design limitations of the charging circuitry have been exceeded.
Its one of two possible scenarios, either the battery's are unreliable cheap and worthless, or the switching transistors are overdriven or are also unreliable cheap and worthless.
Either way, 'chi-pod' and quality can only be used in the same sentence with a negative thrown in.