Venturer 40GB HDD MP3 Player £49.99

jud!th

anyone else with the Venturer 40gb fancy asking audible to make it a compatible device?

don't know whether this is a daft thing to ask or not... please be nice to me if it is:)

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Judith
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DGARRAGHTY

If anyone is still looking for a cheap case for their Venturer, then one bet is something I just picked up in Poundland. It's a 'Gameboy Advance Protector Case'. It's a big black soft case with 'Joytech' stitched on in white on the front. Inside is another clear soft plastic/pvc part with a velcro strap at the top. The venturer fits inside as though it were made for it! The inner plastic has holes cut out for the Gameboy buttons, but these are just nicely positioned so you can still use the Venturer buttons. The heaphone socket, USB socket, and power socket are all uncovered, so you can leave it in the case no problems. Only thing that is a slight problem is that the power button and lock switch are both covered, but I reckon a bit of minor modification with a sharp knife will sort that out. Not at all bad for a quid.

MyUserNamesTaken

Alastair,
Firstly, you're not allowed to promote your own ebay auctions on here. Secondly, having looked at your auctions, I'm reporting you to Ebay for fee avoidance. BIN price of 1p and a postage price of £39.99???!! Thirdly, I've reported you to Abuse.

wacko911

Well £40 is cheaper than what I paid for mine, how did you manage to get them so cheap? (Trade secret no doubt).

You can click edit and change your previous post.

The Players are actually USB2.0, usb 1.0 would put me off bidding on one, would take like a week to copy all my mp3's to it if that was the case.

MyUserNamesTaken

wacko911 wrote:

Well £40 is cheaper than what I paid for mine, how did you manage to get them so cheap? (Trade secret no doubt).

You can click edit and change your previous post.

The Players are actually USB2.0, usb 1.0 would put me off bidding on one, would take like a week to copy all my mp3's to it if that was the case.

His are refurbished or returned units.

Supernova

I'm still corresponding with them over their claim that you can get 20,000 songs on the thing. The system load fails at about 10,000.

colz_2

I bought my venturer 40gb audio player, of a carbootsale got it home and my compe would not recognise it, tried it in other comps still did not work, so I took it back the next week, the carbooter was knowhere to be seen, but there was another one who stands on a regular basis, who had a whole bunch of them, my dad bought one off him, and it works perfect, so I bought one the week after, and guess what?, yes this ones not working either, works fine if it is plugged into mains, once it is running I can take the mains out, and it carries on working.
However I can not start it up without being plugged in, all it does is the blue light flashes on and off, as though it is struggling to switch on.
Looks like it needs the mains to give it a boost to come on.
But the whole reason for me getting one of these is so I can take it out with me, I do not want to have too carry the mains adapter everywhere I go.
I have updated firmware this does not do anything, even tried swopping hard drives between the two cases but does not matter which drive is in which case they have the same problem, so I think it must be an onboard thing.
I would appreciate any help as too what could be wrong with either.
Where is the battery situated?, thought if I could unplug this then put it back it might help.

adm_4

I've got a problem with mine that causes it (sometimes) to miss out every second song. It tries the right song (ie makes its noise) then gives up and goes to the next one.
Anybody any thoughts please?

Thanks,
Adam

socnsum1

Mine was skipping and making funny noises so I contacted Venturer and they sent me this advice, it did seem to help.

go to https://www.arwservices.co.uk and download the top two files
(Version302.zip and HDPFirmware.pdf). Read the second file and install
the
first file as directed.

Hope that helps solve your problem.

Nick.

colz_2

Sorted my problem, hope this helps someone else, if you switch your player on and the blue backlight just flashes and does nothing else, try plugging in the power supply if it works then, it could be the battery frazzled.
What I did is unsoldered the battery(found it, it is the blue square thing) from the old player that the comp did not recognise and soldered this in the new player (obviously unsoldering the other one first), and it works a treat, now no backlight flashing when turned on.
This might happen when your battery has seen its last days aswell?.
Which prompts me to ask, does anyone know where I can get a new one of these batteries, as I am sure one day I will need another.
Bye the way the solder job is easy it has two wires, black and red and thats it, all you need is a steady hand, so as not to catch the circuit board with your iron.