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Posted on Oct 27, 2008

GoGear screen is frozen and device will not turn off

After recently charging and transferring music to my GoGear SA5285, I turned on the device but the screen remained frozen on the black "GoGear" intro screen. The device would not power off and remained on until it ran out of power (about a day). I plugged back up to the computer to recharge, and the same issue occurred. I plan to let the power run down again and try the reset button unless someone has a better solution.

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Go with the reset button, it will erase the music but is not that bad.
any way, you will have another problem later. if you are able to change it...do it! i have had a lot of different problems

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