Sansa 280 MP3 player won't charge. When attempting to charge, it

Dear! You can use usb card reader for that problem. It will helpful.
Good Luck

Hi, dont worry your player is probably fine, you just need to refomatt it. Checked out the sanza forum and they were pretty helpful
This guide should be useful
http://forums.sandisk.com/sansa/board/message?board.id=sansafuse&thread.id=11867

You do not need special software - it acts like an external drive. Just drag the files to the proper folders on the Sansa or use Windows Media Player to create playlists and sync your player to WMP. Then everytime you update your playlists, your player will be updated when you connect again.

The larger Sansa's like my 8 GIG has software for converting video to play on it, but the screen is too small - you will go cross-eyed trying to watch a movie.

And the best place to get these things is on Woot.com. I paid $10 for my 1 GIG clip! Yee - Haww!

What does that mean - "music db" ? I put all of my music on my 1 Gig and it works great. I put all Harry Potters audio books on my 8 GIG and still have 1.5 gig left for music.

Update your firmware.
Download firmware http://www.sandisk.com/Retail/Default.aspx?CatID=1449
Install the newly downloaded firmware.
It should work like new and give you back your missing gigs.
You should prolly reformat the player too.

An 8G card is too big for this player - use a 1G or 2G

take the back off with eyeglass screwdriver; remove battery and reinstall

if the micro sd is HC the sansa will not read it because it does not have the right firmware and connection to read an 8 GIG if you want that get a sansa view

Theoretically, you should be able to use this one forever, if you keep charging it. The battery isn't replaceable, so hopefully it will last you a good 3 years or more. The #1 threat to Mp3 players isn't the battery, but keeping up with software/computer environment changes. Most mp3 players introduced to date only last 1-2 years - much shorter than everyone had originally thought.

The message says it needs 6MB of space for the MUSIC DB ( the database, the artist names, etc).

You need to delete some of the recordings off of your device to free up some space.

You can manually delete the files while connected to your computer from My Computer>Device Name (e280)>MUSIC Folder.




Best of Luck.