Mp3 player battery status?

My mp3 player, a 2GB Sansa Express, automounts as a filesystem when I connect it to my computer, but I can't find any way to check the battery charge. Can anyone offer some advice on how to access it?

If I remember right, I tried something like this with libusb once (or doing stuff I suddenly kept finding after adding "libusb" to my array of search terms - had a hard time finding anything useful before)... and /proc/usb/something stuff... also awk and huge amounts of data rolling around in my tty... looking for a value somewhere that steadily went into the same direction and in the opposite after reloading the battery. Had to give up though after a couple of days due to general lack of knowledge on my side and getting too confused with all the new info to continue. Don't really know how that stuff works - but maybe this small hint helps you figure out how to find someone who does.
Good luck!

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Apple - Batteries - iPad
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Password:
Disk /dev/sda: 120.0 GB, 120034123776 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14593 cylinders, total 234441648 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
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Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 63 40965749 20482843+ 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda2 40965750 45062324 2048287+ 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda3 45062325 45271169 104422+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda4 45271170 234436544 94582687+ 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 45271233 68131664 11430216 83 Linux
/dev/sda6 68131728 72180044 2024158+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda7 72180108 234436544 81128218+ 83 Linux
[jorge@flamingo ~]$
This is what I get in dmesg:
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[ 9906.598074] wlan0: associate with 00:18:e7:ee:75:e5 (try 1)
[ 9906.602459] wlan0: RX AssocResp from 00:18:e7:ee:75:e5 (capab=0x431 status=0 aid=1)
[ 9906.602463] wlan0: associated
[ 9906.604145] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): wlan0: link becomes ready
[ 9917.055720] wlan0: no IPv6 routers present
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[11117.825661] hub 7-0:1.0: unable to enumerate USB device on port 3
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[11119.659249] hub 7-0:1.0: unable to enumerate USB device on port 3
[11149.949776] usb 7-4: USB disconnect, device number 10
[jorge@flamingo ~]$
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work:
[jorge@flamingo ~]$ sudo rmmod ehci-hcd
[jorge@flamingo ~]$ sudo fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 120.0 GB, 120034123776 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14593 cylinders, total 234441648 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xe8000000
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 63 40965749 20482843+ 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda2 40965750 45062324 2048287+ 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda3 45062325 45271169 104422+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda4 45271170 234436544 94582687+ 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 45271233 68131664 11430216 83 Linux
/dev/sda6 68131728 72180044 2024158+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda7 72180108 234436544 81128218+ 83 Linux
Disk /dev/sdb: 3933 MB, 3933732864 bytes
122 heads, 62 sectors/track, 1015 cylinders, total 7683072 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x6f20736b
This doesn't look like a partition table
Probably you selected the wrong device.
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/dev/sdb1 ? 778135908 1919645538 570754815+ 72 Unknown
/dev/sdb2 ? 168689522 2104717761 968014120 65 Novell Netware 386
/dev/sdb3 ? 1869881465 3805909656 968014096 79 Unknown
/dev/sdb4 ? 2885681152 2885736650 27749+ d Unknown
Partition table entries are not in disk order
[jorge@flamingo ~]$
My problems with this solution are:
1. It's a little bit inconvenient to do this everytime
2. The first time that I did that I had an external drive plugged in and it got a little bit
screwed up.. Had to run a disk check and fix some errors.. So I'm a little bit cautious
about doing it again.
Could you please enlighten me as of:
1. Why do I need to do the rmmod thing to get my sansa player recognized?
2. Is there a way to overcome this procedure?
Thanks a lot in advance..
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