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Sansa Clip Plus: Sandisk Clip+ Component Identification

Wed, 04 Feb 2026 10:54:52 -0700

Recently dug out my old Sansa Clip+ and couldn't get it to power on. Appears the component shown below has ruptured and I assume is the issue. Looks like a capacitor to me but I can't find anything that looks the same with the markings s451. Hoping someone can point me in the direction of a replacement. Thanks in advance.

⟐ Edited February 04, 2026 at 10:54 MST

Sansa Clip Plus: FM radio works, can't switch to my stored music, it sticks.

Sat, 06 Jul 2024 09:07:00 -0700

FM radio works, can't switch to my stored music, it sticks

Sansa Clip Plus: Cannot mount Sansa Clip device as USB storage

Wed, 11 May 2022 22:26:30 -0700

I have had the common issues with this device freezing. Long story short, it appeared to die after crashing when refreshing the music database. A few years later I plugged the Clip into a computer and it showed signs of life. Thereafter, I would try to troubleshoot it every so often. Eventually, I was able to reset it, get into settings without it crashing, and performed a factory reset and reformated it.

Now I have it working sort of normally (still crashes more than it probably should), but it has no music on it. It does not seem to be able to access mp3s on a microSD card. I cannot get any of my computers (Win XP, 7, 10, osx, Linux Mint (18.2), Ubuntu(22.04)) to recognize the device and access the storage, so I can transfer mp3s to it or at least update the firmware. I have set it to "mass storage class" as recommended by SanDisk for troubleshooting connections. Each version of Windows seems to see it as an "unknown device" but does not seem to mount it as a storage drive. OSX and Linux do not acknowledge it at all. Occasionally I will see normal behavior from the Clip with the alternating "Connected" and "Writing" screens, usually when connected to the Linux Mint computer but with no corresponding entry in /dev/ or /dev/bus/usb/.

Has anyone encountered this issue and fixed it? Initially, I assumed a compatibility/driver issue, but I just tried an old XP computer and it also could recognize the Clip. I am beginning to wonder if this is a hardware issue.

Thanks.

Sansa Clip Plus: Why aren't the words on the screen displaying?

Tue, 30 Mar 2021 17:39:47 -0700

My Sandisk Sansa Clip+ works just fine, however the words on the screen (song titles, artist, settings, etc.) Are not working. For example, when I turn it on, the first thing you're supposed to see would be “music". Mine doesn't show that. I can click it and go in and play the music, but I can't see any of the words and it makes it very difficult to navigate. Imagine trying to navigate your phone with the apps having no pictures or words to tell you what it is until you click it. Also, everytime you add a few apps (songs) all your other apps shift so you have to try to figure it all out all over again. It's very frustrating. Please help!!

Sansa Clip Plus: I damaged my Clip+ during disassembly.

Wed, 24 Feb 2021 08:20:55 -0700

I have a Clip+ that had a loose headphone jack, so I fixed it.

Unfortunately, in the process of opening it up, I pulled too hard on the sticky pad sitting on the flash memory. It can sometimes boot to Rockbox but it won’t play any music, it’ll get stuck skipping tracks.

I tried to take it all the way apart to make it easier to work on the flash, but it turns out there’s another sticky pad between the motherboard and display, and now the backlight doesn’t work. So, yeah, it’s time to stop and ask for help before I make it worse.

Does anyone have experience fixing a Clip+ with this kind of damage? How do I even begin to troubleshoot?

Sansa Clip Plus: Power button is stuck

Tue, 29 Sep 2020 17:38:22 -0700

The power button won’t press down — the only way to turn the device on now is to plug it in, and the only way to turn it off is to wait till the timed auto shutoff. I’ve tried blowing compressed air around the button. Do I have a brick?

Sansa Clip Plus: No connection to my computer

Fri, 30 Dec 2016 15:08:33 -0700

When the USB cable from the Sansa Clip is connected to my Windows 10 computer there is no indication of the connection on the computer.

Originally I connected through Rhapsody, but that doesn't work anymore.

Which means that I can't add or delete music or update.

Is there some other program that will enable the connection? Does anyone else have this problem? Is there anyone who can help?

⟐ Edited December 30, 2016 at 15:08 MST

Sansa Clip Plus: How to fix brokien volume control?

Wed, 20 Apr 2016 14:03:03 -0700

there's a work-around: add a volume control in-line. But it would be more elegant to fix the toggle on the side of the Sansa. Anyone?