My wife and I both have SanDisk 2GB Sansa Clips and we love them. Now since I’ve picked up a Motorola Droid X on the Verizon network, and being synced up with my Amazon account, well, it’s hard to beat that. If you can afford it that is. Having a smart phone isn’t cheap. But the Sansa Clip is and awesome 2GB MP3 music player.
But every now and then something causes the MP3 to freeze.
The first time, back in 2009, my wife’s clip screen went blank when she switched from radio mode to MP3 music mode.
Today I had my poor wife’s Sansa Clip plugged into my laptop when I had to do a reboot. Doing this froze the Clip at the “Connected” window. That’s the screen that shows up when it’s charging.
To fix your locked Sansa Clip, you can “reset” it. Resetting your MP3 player involves holding the power button ‘up’ for around 15 seconds, then releasing.
Wallah, at least for us, it was fixed.
Check out the Sansa Clips on Amazon.
This product review recounts our mini-tale of whoa with our SanDisk 2GB Sansa Clip:
Both of our SanDisk 2GB Sansa Clips were inexpensive, incredibly easy to use digital players, does not limit us to specific sources of music and we’ve had them for a few years now. We love our clips and buying them back then ended our MP3 search.
The other day, my wife was getting ready to head out the door on one of those mongo runs she does (Anything over 2 miles is mongo to me) to stay in condition for her 26.2 events. She was switching her red 2 GB Sansa Clip over from radio mode to MP3 music mode when it went black on the screen and stopped responding.
My wife cannot be running without her MP3 player.
I started looking up fixes for this condition our Sansa Clip was experiencing and in the meantime, I gave her mine even though it’s got my selection of music on it and I’ve never set any presets for the radio function. (Boy, was she thrilled with that idea!)
I discovered that whatever condition her Sansa Clip had slipped into, a reset worked for us.
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