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Title: IRiver H120 not charging
Post by: javichun on June 19, 2012, 02:15:44 PM
Hi everybody!

I own this IRiver from a few years back, recently the battery started to last very little. I bought a new battery for replacement for ebay (following instructions from other posts). I managed to change the battery pretty easily, but now I'm trying to charge it and I think there's something wrong.

When I plug the charger the green light turns on, but only for a few minutes, then it turns off. I try to turn the Iriver on but it's completely dead. When I plug the charger again I can turn the Iriver ON and I get the screen with the full battery and plug symbol (I don't remember if this was the same before). Any ideas as to what I might have done wrong?? Trying to get this ready as a back up recorder... as I missed a couple of shows after lending my primary recorder to some friends.

Thanks in advance for your help!!
Title: Re: IRiver H120 not charging
Post by: yousef on June 19, 2012, 02:30:41 PM
I seem to remember having to flip the polarity of the battery I bought on Ebay for one of my Irivers - ie take the little connector off and reattach it upside down.

I think this was a battery that was marked as being for a particular generation of iPod - maybe it's something to do with this?
Title: Re: IRiver H120 not charging
Post by: javichun on June 20, 2012, 04:47:13 PM
Quote from: yousef on June 19, 2012, 02:30:41 PM
I seem to remember having to flip the polarity of the battery I bought on Ebay for one of my Irivers - ie take the little connector off and reattach it upside down.

I think this was a battery that was marked as being for a particular generation of iPod - maybe it's something to do with this?

Thanks yousef! I changed the wires on the battery and it seems ok now. It charged pretty fast, but I left it plugged all night and I'm testing it right now, it's been recording for 2 hours and the battery is still almost completely charged =)
Title: Re: IRiver H120 not charging
Post by: Redrock on June 20, 2012, 05:14:09 PM

That's some Grade A advise. Nice fix.
Title: Re: IRiver H120 not charging
Post by: yousef on June 20, 2012, 05:48:46 PM
That's good news - I'm happy to hear that nothing got fried when the battery was connected wrong...
Title: Re: IRiver H120 not charging
Post by: javichun on June 22, 2012, 10:08:05 AM
Well, thankfully nothing bad happened when plugging the battery incorrectly... Looks like it's perfectly working now, it charges pretty fast and I got 4 hours recording with the indicator still at 50% capacity =)

Thanks for your help!!!