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This guide will show you how to repair the battery connectors on your Jukebox Recorder V1. You will need some soldering skills, and not be afraid of opening up your jukebox. If you have second thoughts about this, let somebody else do it for you. NewMP3Technology can certainly help you with that.

Symptoms

A loose battery connector can give all kinds of weird behaviour:

Performing the surgery

First you open up your recorder, this is described here.

This picture shows you the two solder joints that most often are broken.

Now you fire up your soldering iron and resolder the joints. Make sure that the PCB really is connected to the metal housing.

Once you have resoldered all joints, reassemble the archos and start it up. The reassembly is described here.

Good luck!

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