Sansa won't hold a charge

When I plug it into the computer it will say it is charging for a chort time (the indicator light moves back and forth on the battery icon) then it stops...when it stops the charging stops..

smileymay24 Aug 18, 2007

It turns out that my sansa has a one year warrenty. I contacted sansa tech support and the friendly tech and I exchanged a series of emails trying to reslove the issue...Turns out my product was defevtive, so they sent me a printable prepaid postage label and the product is going to be replaced with no cost to me!!!

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