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Madd Hatter
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My Rio 600 is starting to anger me. When I got it I thought it was quite nifty (even though it doesn’t have a belt clip, wtf). I put one battery in it and it started saying I had 13 hours of play time, and it went down less than an hour or so every workout. I took a week off and it was at about half, but when I came back to the gym, it went dead after a couple minutes. I could slide the back off, put it back in, and it’d go for a couple more minutes. Ok, no big deal, maybe it’s not good to leave it sitting in the player like that, or maybe it got knocked on. But I’ve just gone through my 2nd battery, this one lasted 7 or 8 workouts, and said it had 8 hours left today before it died. So again I was stuck with no music halfway through my workout. The battery gauge seems to be like the fuel gauge in my Grand National. Goes down very slowly til about 2/3, then drops like an f’in rock, and you end up getting about ½ the mileage you think you should. My thoughts on the possibilities:
1. The unit is refurbished and is just f’d.
2. All MP3 players, or all Rio’s, are just f’d like this.
3. I’m using rechargeable Rayovac Alkaline’s and the player doesn’t like these. But this is actually what’s keeping me sane, buying batteries repeatedly pisses me off.
4. I transfer files to it every workout, does this drain more?
Thoughts from the knowledgable?
1. The unit is refurbished and is just f’d.
2. All MP3 players, or all Rio’s, are just f’d like this.
3. I’m using rechargeable Rayovac Alkaline’s and the player doesn’t like these. But this is actually what’s keeping me sane, buying batteries repeatedly pisses me off.
4. I transfer files to it every workout, does this drain more?
Thoughts from the knowledgable?
