I got this Sylvania SMP2200 in a bulk lot and the battery was dead – worked if charging, died immediately when removed from charge. Opened it up (figured it out) to see if I could replace the battery and it was a 2 wire 110mah 352025 battery. I replaced it with a random battery I had lying around that was the same size (or close), and it’s fully working now.
I threw about 150 songs on it and I’m surprised at home good it sounds. It powers my earbuds and sounds just as good as my other players (Sony, Sansa, etc). The clip on the back is metal and i don’t see it ever breaking. I wish the Sansa players used a metal clip like this (I’m tempted to transplant this slip to one of my Sansa players with a broken clip).
I downloaded the manual and it’s tiny – there are ZERO settings. It seems to just play everything you put on there in random/shuffle mode which works well if that’s your use case.
Overall, I’m impressed with this little nugget – for what it is meant to do – it does it well. I’m not sure how to tell if it needs to be charged (short of it dying) – maybe the one LED blinks or something? I guess I’ll figure that out when that happens.
