To follow up on my post, yellow isn't used. Battery protection board as per Fiio support isn't used. Just solder red to + & black to neg on the jumper wire end.

I realize this isn't the replace battery thread, however some of you have done so. My new battery has 3 leads, black/red/yellow. The original battery is just soldered into TP1 & TP2. Any tips on which one gets what color lead?

Late to the question - sorry don't read these boards much anymore. Love Aeropex. Fabulous for those like me with high frequency hearing loss. Wear them 3 hours a day while out and about.

After searching and trying many pairs of BT ear buds with the X5iii I received a gift of Soundpeats Truengine SE. So I had to hint to my wife who relayed to my son that I needed earbuds. They are about $50 and for my purposes they sound pretty good with aptX. They pair easily. Great for exercise...

Gave up on Mac a few years ago. On the PC side I started with MediaMonkey for sync but switched to MusicBee which has proven to be the best Windows music player I've ever used. Free and the developer somehow fixes things and keeps it going. The sync works but after loading up my music I found it...

Loose parts, scorch marks, burning odors. Probably not going to find anything but it will keep you occupied for a few minutes. I was lucky when I found my screw loose (LOL).

You really should consider popping it open. When I opened mine after I heard some rattling I found an unused screw inside. Very possible you have a similar situation and a short or perhaps a loose connection. Worth a shot if you have the correct screw driver to open it.

https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1319157-REG/fiio_x5_iii_high_resolution_music_player.html HURRY if you have been wanting one.

First time I installed the kernel it had issues at mid speed. Backed it down to slow speed and had success. Next update I tried fast speed with zero issues and the FIIO works great. Trying to understand why new guy shows up on a thread to insult the effort's of a generous person who has given...

I've officially as of today gone totally digital. I had a local record shop owner come over yesterday and cart off 1800 or so Albums, CD's, DVDs & BluRays and my B&O turntable for some cash. Scary that all my music history resides on FIIO X5, with obviously hard drive backups.

I've been formatted with NTFS for most of the time I've had the X5 without issue. AFAIK it isn't supposed to work with Android, but it does. I wonder if going to exFat would do anything but cause me grief.

Have you tried a different card? Reformat ? Now wait for the experts to weigh in.

Two questions - 1. Does the Kernel in Android control the time needed to press the power button to start the player? If so can it be adjusted? 2. Curiosity ?, What about the players and builds cause some people to have issues with the Kernel and others smooth sailing? Mine installs and runs...

Don't know if you can change it but the WELCOME screen should say KERNELMODS.COM says HELLO! or something similar.

If this Fiio gets any faster then it will be playing songs before I know what I want to play. Wow If you have the time or anyone else wants to chime in on explaining some of the terms used above as Internet search didn't always answer exactly what is going on. For example, I enabled "AROMA...

The Kernel mod gets rid of all sorts of junk and speeds the player up drastically. I couldn't really do anything online before using the mod as FIIO software had become bloated and inefficient. Now online is no problem for me. Isn't nearly as fast as my phone but it is older modem technology so...

Just for the record, I never use USB mode.

Anyone else have the issue of seeing the Welcome screen and then no boot beyond that? I'd say it happens to me one out of every 10 or so boot attempts. Requires a long (20 second) press to get it to boot correctly. Not really a big deal but would be nice to know why? Possibly need to drop down...

The current version of Poweramp & the aforementioned Kernel mod will make you very happy and do all you want. Setting up sorts was a big issue for me with FIIO music and now I don't have to use it at all. With the Kernel mod you can even easily remove it from your device and have the device boot...

I previously posted a link of a USA seller of these.

Cat's eyes are scary, must be the answer. Seriously we are generations apart so I don't have that particular album. I run all my art through MusicBee on Windows 10 and it's all good. Earlier this year I went through all my music and deleted artwork that wasn't reasonably sized JPEGs. Almost all...

What album cover for example? Curious to see if it works for me. Have you had this happen on another device or just FIIO running poweramp? I have PA on Fiio and Moto G6 without any issues on cover art.

Thanks for the update. Works great. I can finally dispense with FIIO music and its random weirdness. Still can't get over the issues that they won't or can't fix with that app.

Awesome and you one upped it and did the multiple languages.

Kernelmods website is great, just wish that black backgrounds offered a toggle to white option for people like me who can't stare at the black for very long. I've tried some plug ins for my browser but they don't work very well. Can't wait for the additional magic of version 4.