Can't charge Glacier player with AC adapter or USB cable

[Que]

I bought 2x bl-4c batteries, 1900 mAh, at €2,- a piece off ebay. Even standard official Nokia bl-4c's are a couple of euros there. Check it, postage was more expensive than the batteries for me, total was €12,- for 2 batteries delivered, from a german ebay shop.
You might want to try if a small strip of paper under the battery (small side opposite of connectors) helps keeping good contact, if bad contacts are the case. Won't help a dead battery of course.
EDIT: if you send member Uxcell a personal message here on the forum, you will get a response. Send your order number with the complaint.

[michiganjfrog]

I'm afraid to say, I now have the same problem Shelley and I think a couple of others have had with the Glacier not charging after a short period of use. I assumed it was the battery, but now I'm not so sure. Here's the full story from the beginning:

I recently received a brand new original Nokia battery in sealed Nokia package (complete with hologram logo on front) from a seller on eBay, but it wouldn't work at all when I tried it in the Glacier. "No problem", I thought, "it must have gotten discharged from sitting around for a long time, I'll just charge it". So I charge it via AC charger for a few hours, that doesn't do anything, and a few more hours via USB didn't get the battery to charge at all. A reading showed 0 volts, while my Glacier battery was about 3.3v. But the original Glacier battery had been giving me low battery sign, so I charged it via the AC charger for a couple of hours. Then I found it turned off immediately, after issuing a "LOW POWER" warning! Obviously, the charger wasn't doing anything, and if anything, it seemed to have drained the battery. So I repeated this with a similar charger, same result. Then I tried charging the Glacier via the USB port for several hours. It read at 2.9 volts. I've been charging it via USB all day, kept checking it every few hours, no change, its still 2.9 volts!

I had complained to the eBay seller who sold me the genuine Nokia battery that was DOA, but now I'm not so sure any longer! It seems the problem might be the Glacier is not charging batteries any longer. I tried every thing I could think of, including sticking a paper at the opposite end to push the battery toward the contacts, including pulling the contacts out just a bit to make more even contact with the battery contacts, making sure the on/off switch was at on, trying the USB cable in different USB ports, nothing works. Despite the Glacier battery being 2.9v, its as dead as the other one, it won't turn the player on. (The player only comes on when connected to USB or AC).

What makes it more troublesome is that I was getting set to order another Glacier for my girlfriend before the 31st (which is when my 10% off coupon expires...), and now I find I have to back off on that again, until I find out what's up with this charging thing, namely if it is an inherent problem with all the latest batch of Glaciers. (I had already hesitated about getting another Glacier due to the USB problems I was having with mine but felt they were surmountable).

I would rather have reliability problems with my own players than buy a player for my GF with her money, and have her facing a bunch of problems with it, that I am indirectly responsible for, having advised her toward the Glacier in the first place. (We agonized for weeks over whether to get a Glacier or a good solid reliable name brand mp3 player, and the Glacier won out due to its excellent physical and technical design, and primarily its use of a cheap, widely available and easily user-replacable Nokia phone battery).

[greenorange95]

Edited January 30th....
(1st try was just rants about my glacier not charging)


Hey, after about 3 hours of just messing with my poor, dead Glacier i found go around to get your glaciers to charge....look in the Uxcell General discussions for my post on how to do it!

hope it helps

see you in a later life!