[hullubullu]

Believe me, it's not as easy as that video made it out to be. The case has a seam but it is glued with heat gun glue, end to end. The battery has an integrated harness and is really tough to dissemble. I trashed my first Pono trying but it was dead anyway. I use my second one indoors so battery life isn't an issue, I plug it in when using.

Thanks for the heads-up! This is good to know.

 

[yangian]

I bookmarked this: http://mikebeauchamp.com/2014/12/pono-player-teardown/
It has all the relevant informations:
Quote:
"This battery is a 3.78V 2950mAh Lithium-Ion battery made by McNair New Power Co. in China. This appears to be a standard 18650 size battery. The pono player uses Texas Instruments’ TPS65921B1 power management and USB chip to regulate the voltages, manage charging and do USB stuff."

Thank you very much!

 

[barondla]

Peel off the green McNair sticker and there is a Samsung battery underneath. The battery isn't available anywhere with the wire harness. The actual battery (minus harness) is used in many vaping machines. The original wire harness must be saved and reused.

A Pono owner posted a how to. I will have to search for it. Didn't look complicated or too difficult.

 

[harpo1]

Peel off the green McNair sticker and there is a Samsung battery underneath. The battery isn't available anywhere with the wire harness. The actual battery (minus harness) is used in many vaping machines. The original wire harness must be saved and reused.

A Pono owner posted a how to. I will have to search for it. Didn't look complicated or too difficult.

You can buy new wraps for the battery and use a blow dryer to shrink it back down after you solder the original circuit to the new battery.

 

[maira]

Is there a aftermarket USB cable fitting the Pono?

 

[Left Channel]

Is there a aftermarket USB cable fitting the Pono?

Any "micro USB" 2.0 cable will do. The original has a male USB A male plug on the other end, for connection to the included charging adapter or a computer USB port.

 

[Venture Guy]

If there are any diehard Pono fans out there that are looking for backup units, I have a couple that are New-In-Box... PM me if you are interested

 

[ruthieandjohn]

Just bought a Pono and I’m loving it.

However, it has engendered a “little blue light” fixation. The one tune that was on it when I bought it as a NIB unit was Neil Young’s “There’s A World” from his Harvest album. It turns on a little blue light on the player, which indicates that the song has come from the Pono Music Store.

The Pono Music Store, now gone, was described as offering the highest-bit-rate FLAC available for its songs, and apparently there was a bit in the header that showed that the song came from the Pono store and turned on the blue light to assure that the file was indeed the highest-res FLAC available.

Despite trials on lots of hi-res files of various formats, including FLAC, I cannot get that blue light to turn on for any other songs.

Any ideas how to get files that turn it on?

Thanks!

 

[L8MDL]

You'll need to find files that were purchased from the Pono store.

 

[silverfishla]

Just bought a Pono and I’m loving it.

However, it has engendered a “little blue light” fixation. The one tune that was on it when I bought it as a NIB unit was Neil Young’s “There’s A World” from his Harvest album. It turns on a little blue light on the player, which indicates that the song has come from the Pono Music Store.

The Pono Music Store, now gone, was described as offering the highest-bit-rate FLAC available for its songs, and apparently there was a bit in the header that showed that the song came from the Pono store and turned on the blue light to assure that the file was indeed the highest-res FLAC available.

Despite trials on lots of hi-res files of various formats, including FLAC, I cannot get that blue light to turn on for any other songs.

Any ideas how to get files that turn it on?

Thanks!

There’s a way to do it by adding information in the metadata... but I never learned how, because it didn’t interest me at the time. The old Pono forums had that info. Maybe someone here can point you to that info.

 

[Left Channel]

@ruthieandjohn someone wrote a little app that will add the blue light tag to your meta data. If anyone can still share or point you to the app (or explain what it does), they'd be on the RESono Community forum set up by diehard Pono users to replace official and dearly departed Pono Community. That's the best place to ask your question. I recommend you request an invite here: https://ponotrial.onsocialengine.com/

 

[BIG666]

Just bought a Pono and I’m loving it.

However, it has engendered a “little blue light” fixation. The one tune that was on it when I bought it as a NIB unit was Neil Young’s “There’s A World” from his Harvest album. It turns on a little blue light on the player, which indicates that the song has come from the Pono Music Store.

The Pono Music Store, now gone, was described as offering the highest-bit-rate FLAC available for its songs, and apparently there was a bit in the header that showed that the song came from the Pono store and turned on the blue light to assure that the file was indeed the highest-res FLAC available.

Despite trials on lots of hi-res files of various formats, including FLAC, I cannot get that blue light to turn on for any other songs.

Any ideas how to get files that turn it on?

Thanks!

https://github.com/eehmke/flactag

 

[udesign48]

I'm selling my Pono player for only $120 include shipping!

https://www.head-fi.org/threads/fs-pono-player-black-great-condition.911814/

 

[jgriffter]

https://github.com/eehmke/flactag

Hi

Thanks for the link on Github for the Pono light activation.

I hope someone who has installed this already can help. I went to Github and got the files, and installed three of the four steps in the install.txt file without problem. Unfortunately, one of the steps, "port install py27-flac" reported back "not found". I did a port search on MacPorts to see if I could find it but no luck. Also inspected the GitHub files and cannot find it. I am not a pro at this by any means - could someone offer any help? Thanks!


John

 

[ruthieandjohn]

I just put a 400GB microSD card into the expansion slot, spec'ed at 128gb. Pono built the database and now I have over 9,000 songs. Looks like 128 GB is not a limit on that expansion slot! YAYY!