oakwoodphil says:I would agree that it is truely wasteful to have to bin the sensor, seems a bit cazy in this day of environmental awareness. Mine has gone after 4.5 months of use, and I've manually uploaded a run using nano's stopwatch, and using the nike+ distance from a prevous run of the same route, and I miss Paula and co. telling me i'm getting faster!!
Last Friday I spent almost an hour going through the various levels of Apple tech support to see if they can send me a replacement. Mine was a gift at Xmas and the struggle was not having proof of purchase, so I said I'd sedn the w/end trying to get a copy of the receipt. they were going to call me back today but no show so far, and couldn't bear another our on the phone mainly spent in queues.
I went to a shop near work and it seems rare that stores other than apple sell replacements which seems a bit of a shortfall considering it needs replacing. Apple's site shows £14 for a sensor, the whole kit only costs a little more on the internet. But i'd certainly want to see serail numbers before i buy...
...One thing i did learn from tech support, the serial number gives a clue to when manufactured, mine was mid-2006 and out of warranty, hence the fight to get a replacement, and seems it's been on someone's shelf for a while before it was bought. I don't have the packaging any more, so not sure if it's readable when purchasing, but mine starts 4H62, I'm guessing the 6 is the year, so if you need to buy a new kit make sure the digit is the current year. If anyone out there has knowledge of apple serial numbers would be good to know them.
As mine is dead, I cant see any harm in trying to replace the battery, thanks for posts above for details. But i'm dissapointed knowing i'm going to have to throw these things away as they die, shame they arnt rechargeable like most apple products, I'll probably get another but also do some research on the garmin alternates
