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It took a lot longer than I thought for it to arrive but it finally did. It's a nice dark blue kinda purply color and is in great physical condition. It feels built to last. The battery might be shot however as it went from three blocks to none in 10ish minutes. I'll see how that is to fix.
Well I charged it with it's barrel charger and the red light went off in about 30mins. It had no black blocks at all but wasn't giving me anything saying I'm dying before I plugged it in.
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Sounds like the battery is going. You might want to try leaving it plugged in for a few hours even if the red light has gone out. I don't know if that will do any good, but it seems to have helped one of my old Sonys. (But that have been due to a weak charger.)
It looks like the main thing you have to be careful about is the ribbon cable when changing the batteries in these. (Also some people say the replacement batteries don't work but others say they work fine?) I might try replacing the battery in one of mine to see if it works — one of them especially seems to have a weaker battery.
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Is the power slider supposed to feel rough? The other's I purchased have a smooth feeling slider.
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The slide switch shouldn't be any different than the x50s and 300.
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Also does the reader tell you somewhere that it recognizes it has SD and Pro Duo cards mounted? The 650 does but I didn't get anything telling me that the cards were mounted on the 505.
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I had to test this. The SD card should be seen. Files from it will show up with a little SD logo. Maybe, though, the 505 can't use SDHC and the x50 series can? Or maybe it could be an issue with the battery. Have you tried testing the card slots when the 505 is plugged in to power?
Also you might check to see what firmware it's using. I think the newest North American firmware for the 505 was 1.1.00.18040. I've got that (and firmware updates for other readers) in my Sony Firmware directory on Google Drive. These have gotten hard to find since Sony took them off their website.
https://drive.google.com/drive/folde...kB?usp=sharing
It looks like JSWolf might be right about the battery life. A couple years ago when I bought my 505s they definitely held a charge better than they do now.
EDIT: I should add that the Reader Software for Sony is available on Archive.org here...
https://archive.org/download/sony-reader
... I see it's also available for the Mac there as well (never made for Linux).