mostly better karma::05.26.2008+00:40
So the battery came I went home for the weekend to go fix my Rio Karma. Everything went quite well. It was annoying that the battery happens to be soldered to the device itself, but whatever, it was only two connections. The new battery works and that makes me happy. However, when taking the device apart over a week ago to get at the battery board, I managed to snap off the lock-switch. I don’t know who designed it, but I’m surprised that the switch didn’t break during manufacturing. It’s the tiniest thing, and is held together by a miniscule span of plastic. At any rate, I didn’t manage to have the patience to glue it back together, so my Karma’s now forever in the unlocked position, not that I even used the switch in the first place. I’m just happy that it works again and won’t suffer a battery-crushing-the-mostly-irreplaceable-hard-drive death like it would have, had this gone unnoticed. I don’t want an iPod, and it’s going to stay that way for a long time.