lucidreamer
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Similar story happened to me last month - left on for 4 days in a drawer. It never did re-charge. Hope that you have better luck.
Wow.... this is really scary. Did the red light go on too? Did you try to turn it off and connect to some USB power supply to recharge the internal battery? It may take a few hours or so to do it and the unit should power on after the battery has some juice in it. Complete charge can be 24-48 hrs depending on the supply.
I think it should not be the case with the unit turning into a brick if left powered on and unplugged for a few days or even months. The internal battery is drained and, if I understand correctly, the unit shuts down if the battery voltage is too low and it needs the battery to run even when plugged in. But why it would not recharge after the battery is drained???? Does the battery get drained completely and cannot be recharged again, like Li-Po type batteries? I read that the internal circuit in iDSD Micro has a voltage drop prevention mechanism that shuts off the battery to prevent the complete discharge, is it not true?
iFi Team - please chime in to shed some light on that. Is there a possible hardware or software bug that prevents the battery to pick up the charge? I am now afraid to leave my unit unplugged when going out of town for a few days or something like that.
Once the similar thing happened to me too before I got the iUSB power supply. I listened to the music the night before in battery mode and did not charge it over night, then listened to iDSD all day long while working, then around 4 it shuts down by itself. I turned it off, turn it on while connected to my USB laptop port, but it will not power on, the blue light goes on followed by the red light. I got scared that my iDSD went bad or something. Then I just left it alone for like 30-45 minutes, tried again and it powered on. I kept on listening to the music in USB-powered mode and later it took quite a bit to recharge, the blue light is on then off.
Hopefully it helps and nothing is wrong with your iDSD, just needs some charge maybe?