u/dragnalus_-

Hey everyone! I play drums in a band called Split Silk from Atlanta and we're currently planning an album release tour for this fall. We have most of a route sketched out but I wanted to ask/do a temp check on what's up in STL since most of the bands we know from there are either broken up or not really in the screamo world - any locals have any fave bands/venues? Bonus points if bands aren't all cis dudes lol

Thanks!

Hey folks! Pretty much what it says in the title, I've had my Hiby m300 for just about six weeks and it was perfect for everything I want(ed) - android OS for UI customizability and last.fm support, gapless playback, and microSD support for extended storage. After having it for about a month, though, it started randomly shutting down and coming back to life with significantly reduced battery.

This week while on a trip (when I would have been using it a ton :/) it shut down and simply wouldn't turn back on, even when I left it charging overnight. For a minute at first it got stuck in the hiby logo bootloop, and pretty soon after that it was just dead. I emailed Hiby support and they said to send it to them for repair - i would rather not have to deal with international shipping/going back to streaming services for as long as repair (if even successful - I'm seeing reports of them being pretty unhelpful) would take. Has anyone here had this problem/encountered a fix?

I remember reading something about opening up the back and resoldering the battery wires but I can't find the post atm. I'm also now aware that the m300 battery is known to expand/become unusable over time if the wrong voltage charging cable is used. Since I only had mine for six weeks before it stopped working and haven't noticed any swelling in the back I feel like that scenario isn't the case here but feel like it's worth bringing up, IDK. Any help/tips would be hugely appreciated, i would hate to have dropped almost $200 on a gadget for it to brick after such a short period of time. Thanks!