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Revive your iRiver H320 / H340 with a new battery

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I've been told before that if you won't use your battery, to completely discharge it before storing it.. I would like to note that the following rumor is FALSE!. My battery used to last days on end (if not at least a week), but after leaving it discharged for 3 weeks, now it never finishes charging, and lasts half an hour. So I decided instead of chucking away the player, which
is still quite good for what it provides, I decided to replace the battery.

It turned out to be much easier than I thought. For anyone else who'se thinking of doing the same, I say go for it.

All you need is a battery. You can get one easily on ebay for about £10 - £15. Just search for the term 'iriver h340 battery'. Here's an example.

Here's a video tutorial on how to replace your battery in 7 minutes, in case the bottom feed doesn't work, click on the topic.

[video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HOnpHSgMvw]

Here are two pictures of the insides of mine. The blue wrappings are protective pads for the hard drive (small and cute!)

 

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Extra

It's also possible to replace the player's hard disk with another bigger sized one. Here's a link that shows you how. So far you could upgrade up to 80Gb of storage.

Read your article with

Read your article with interest. Very informative! Thanks a lot!

Edit: modified by admin to remove advertising/spam 

even i have faced problems

even i have faced problems like the battery life suddenly dying when you need it the most....

Very good resource and very

Very good resource and very good post!

iRiver is a great player and

iRiver is a great player and a new battery is all you need to make it as good as new, i mean this is a player that can last a lifetime, it's that great

Lithium-based batteries

Lithium-based batteries (Li-Ion and Li-Pol) should be, when not used, stored at 40% to 50% charge state and recharged to this state every six months. The batteries will have the longest possible life - lowest capacity drop over time. I know this from batteryuniversity.com and my experiences are the same - I used to have the Li-Ion battery in my laptop always and fully charged (as most people do) but from original 4hrs working time, it dropped gradually and after 2,5 year the capacity was about 1,5hr (same kind of laptop usage). At that time, I started to charge the battery to only 40% and remove it from the laptop. Now, after 2 years from that, I still have more than an hour work time. I do this also with my other electronic stuff with Li-based batteries. Note that what damages the Li-based batteries most is when you dischharge them completely (and even more if you leave them discharged for longer time).
Ni-Cd and Ni-MH batteries are another story, though. They should be stored at full charge.

Oh yeah talking about

Oh yeah talking about totally discharge battery it happen to me couple of days and i didn't used for more couple of weeks and the next time i turn on my iriver h320 it didn't even turn on and guess the battery out and i have to recharge it fully and it took me at least 10hrs and it depend on the battery....
After i recharge it the battery run great and doesn't run out quick.....

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