The Archos 7 Returns!

My Archos 7 arrived back in the mail yesterday. It was both a happy and sad occasion. I was happy to get it back, but sadly, something was amiss!

The Archos looked like mine, but apparently, without warning, Archos deleted everything off of it. Now, I don’t know if this is common practice for them, or if something indeed was wrong with the unit (not just the battery). It appears I will never know, since there was no correspondence to inform me…

What bothers me the most, is that I could do nothing to back up the device before sending it off back to them. For those that may not have followed my previous posts about this, the Archos 7 does not work without the battery in, which was impossible to resolve for me since, I only had one battery, and there was no way it was going to fit back into the unit.  So over 100gb worth of music videos got disposed of.

So, in the end, I’m happy to get it back, but sad that all my data is gone. Now, I’m left pondering the reliability of the device, wondering if it’s worth trying to load it up again with all the stuff I had before, just to possible relive this scenario 6 months from now. I guess we’ll see.