topic Re: My Vaio Pocket keeps on crashing!!! HELP!! in PCs & Accessories

My Vaio Pocket keeps on crashing!!! HELP!!

Robby41 — Sun, 03 Apr 2005 18:59:31 GMT

I need some help my VP keeps on crashing when i press onto a song it also loads extremely slow especially when i am scrolling or even using sonic stage.
Is it because i have used up most of memory 19/20G.
I desperatly need some help becasue i am totaly unable to play anything as it crashing when i play them.

Re: My Vaio Pocket keeps on crashing!!! HELP!!

kee-lo_ — Sun, 03 Apr 2005 20:03:33 GMT

Is there no way to reboot the VP?

Re: My Vaio Pocket keeps on crashing!!! HELP!!

MadarbWoT — Mon, 04 Apr 2005 12:08:23 GMT

um have you done all the updates and everything?
maybe that will sort things out.

it could be caused by the use of most resources but i cant see any way that this affects the playback!

try emailing sony...maybe they can help.

or visit a sony center near you.

Re: My Vaio Pocket keeps on crashing!!! HELP!!

samhiggs — Mon, 04 Apr 2005 14:25:40 GMT

Sony Centers are pretty useless in my experience. One interesting fact about them is that they have nothing to do with Sony! they just sell a majority of their products. They're in fact a subsidiary of Sonex. You're most probably best to go directy through to the Sony Vaio helpline even though the service is pretty dire...

Re: My Vaio Pocket keeps on crashing!!! HELP!!

MadarbWoT — Mon, 04 Apr 2005 18:13:47 GMT

yes you are right samhiggs...

but there is nothing else to propose as the problem our fellow has is deeper than most others mentioned in this forum...:smileysad:

Re: My Vaio Pocket keeps on crashing!!! HELP!!

DiabloVaio — Mon, 04 Apr 2005 23:18:16 GMT

I recommend you to format and initialize your VP, then test it with a few tracks, and see if it's alright or not.
Then in case of further problems, post it here!
(I know it's a nightmare formatting 19GB music, but it's better than having a bulky piece of useless metal!)

Re: My Vaio Pocket keeps on crashing!!! HELP!!

MadarbWoT — Tue, 05 Apr 2005 13:11:38 GMT

well he could do that diablovaio but imagine your vp getting formatted after so much time of transfering and making sure everything is ok...for 19GIGS!!!!

Re: My Vaio Pocket keeps on crashing!!! HELP!!

Robby41 — Tue, 05 Apr 2005 21:26:35 GMT

I am considering formating the device, but when you format it does the memory that you have formated simply stay used up?
I have formated it before and i lost 1G of memory or did i do something wrong?

Re: My Vaio Pocket keeps on crashing!!! HELP!!

DiabloVaio — Tue, 05 Apr 2005 22:03:48 GMT

I am considering formating the device, but when you format it does the memory that you have formated simply stay used up?
I have formated it before and i lost 1G of memory or did i do something wrong?

You don't lose your HDD space.
1) When a music player has for example 20GB capacity, you have to bear in your mind that every mp3HDD GigaByte (GB) means just 1000 MegaBytes. But normal GB is 1024 MB, So if you add up "24 x 20" then we have 480 MB less than a real 20GB. It becomes worse in 40GB version, that means near 1 GB in AP1L !
2) The firmware and VP system files use some of the space, as well as keeping a bit for later! So you can't use that space as well.
In conclusion, VP has 1-3 GB less than what you expect. Don't worry about it because it's normal as is the same in every HDD player.

Re: My Vaio Pocket keeps on crashing!!! HELP!!

MadarbWoT — Wed, 06 Apr 2005 14:42:37 GMT

if you format a disk it means that you erase everything on it except system files etc.

so normally you should have the space formatted,back.i cant understand why you lost a gig...maybe it was used by other files such as pics or anything else you have put on it!

Re: My Vaio Pocket keeps on crashing!!! HELP!!

Robby41 — Thu, 07 Apr 2005 22:01:14 GMT

um have you done all the updates and everything?
maybe that will sort things out.

it could be caused by the use of most resources but i cant see any way that this affects the playback!

try emailing sony...maybe they can help.

or visit a sony center near you.

Well, thats it i am going to give sony some grief, i made a 3 hours trip today and just after the 1st 5 mins of playing it, it crashed, now how annyoing is that!
Can someone tell me how to contact sony as i don't think formating the dam thing will make a difference.

Re: My Vaio Pocket keeps on crashing!!! HELP!!

MadarbWoT — Fri, 08 Apr 2005 14:37:30 GMT

well thats just bad luck what can i say?im sorry for all the things you have to go through!

this is the vaio-link contact page i think you should be able to get to them through it!
http://www.vaio-link.com/contacts/contacts.asp?l=en

Re: My Vaio Pocket keeps on crashing!!! HELP!!

OneLove — Sun, 10 Apr 2005 02:07:38 GMT

I have the same problem. The player works fine most of the time and only crashes when I play certain songs. I'm not sure what the problem is with these songs as they are fine when I play them through the PC or burn them to CD. Is this a common problem? It's completely ridiculous that I should have to wait for the battery to run down before I can use the device again. What are Sony playing at? I'm just wondering how frequently this sort of thing happens.

Re: My Vaio Pocket keeps on crashing!!! HELP!!

MadarbWoT — Sun, 10 Apr 2005 08:32:40 GMT

maybe these tracks are corupted in some way...have you tried deleting and re-transfering them?
or maybe burn them on a cd and ripping them from it so you get a new file with the same song?

about the battery,you dont have to wait for it to discharge 100% to use it again...i thought of that myself but another topic showed me wrong as people in the forum found websites saying that its actually better to charge the battery more often!

Re: My Vaio Pocket keeps on crashing!!! HELP!!

Robby41 — Sun, 10 Apr 2005 12:28:29 GMT

I have the same problem.  The player works fine most of the time and only crashes when I play certain songs.  I'm not sure what the problem is with these songs as they are fine when I play them through the PC or burn them to CD.  Is this a common problem?  It's completely ridiculous that I should have to wait for the battery to run down before I can use the device again.  What are Sony playing at?  I'm just wondering how frequently this sort of thing happens.

Yep exactly the same problem as me, i amlitterly quite sick of waiting until the battery goes and i have to initailize the ouch pad and set the clock all again.
And no its deffinetly not due to the files its playing because i have numourisly repeatedly and retransfered tracks and it randonmly happend again, or sometime it does n't.
Thats why i am confident in sayign its the VP itsself not erronus files.
I play DJ sets on my VP some range from 45 mins to 3 hours long could this be the cause?

Re: My Vaio Pocket keeps on crashing!!! HELP!!

DiabloVaio — Sun, 10 Apr 2005 13:36:40 GMT


I play DJ sets on my VP some range from 45 mins to 3 hours long could this be the cause?

Nope, because I have songs on my VP from less than 1 minute to more than 2 hours, and my VP plays all of them with no problem.

Re: My Vaio Pocket keeps on crashing!!! HELP!!

DiabloVaio — Sun, 10 Apr 2005 13:40:50 GMT


I play DJ sets on my VP some range from 45 mins to 3 hours long could this be the cause?

Nope, because I have songs on my VP from less than 1 minute to more than 2 hours, and my VP plays all of them with no problem.

Re: My Vaio Pocket keeps on crashing!!! HELP!!

MadarbWoT — Sun, 10 Apr 2005 14:52:01 GMT

sonce this is going nowhere id like to ask robby to state again his problem and what relates to it.

thanks

Re: My Vaio Pocket keeps on crashing!!! HELP!!

DiabloVaio — Sun, 10 Apr 2005 21:47:33 GMT

*out of topic*

How can I delete my posts? I didn't find a button for that on forums

Re: My Vaio Pocket keeps on crashing!!! HELP!!

MadarbWoT — Mon, 11 Apr 2005 19:38:58 GMT

i doubt there is a way to do that diablo...
it would be nice to do that though!

why dont you try rephrasing them?[edit]