Dies even with partial battery life

My Sansa has been turning off even though the battery is 3/4 full. I've gone through 3 batteries in the past week even though I've only listened to 5hrs of music and they weren't dead yet. I've reformatted my MP3 player because of problems downloading songs, which were fixed, but it has done nothing for this current problem. Any suggestions?

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If you update the firmware, it should resolve your issue. Ge here; http://sandisk.com/Retail/Default.aspx?CatID=1326 Best of Luck.

Posted on Sep 11, 2007

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