Contributor I

Recycle Mode.

Forum|Forum|6 years ago
January 2, 2020
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I have many strong feeling towards 'Recycle Mode’ but sticking plainly to the facts. Erasing user data from a device is one thing but driving up profits at the cost of the environment for profits sake alone is another. Recycle mode should be removed in my opinion, the idea of a landfill of Sonos devices that should still be in service makes anyone uneasy. Then there is the thought of all the precious metals involved in manufacture, the time it will take for those dense high-quality plastics and fibre glass to decay, the time it will take for the PCB to decay, the chemical residue that will remain afterwards in the soil, not to mention if those rare materials in manufacture were conflict free in the first place.

A quick google search of what the world does with e-waste shows a trend for shipping it to a developing country where they can be dumped and left to rot for the next millennia. That high quality poly-carbonate exterior should still be distinguishable by 3020.

My physics teacher taught me always point out problems but with a solution. So how about wipe the data, and let the device function as normal. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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christopherjoesph

Lyricist I

Any idea when this new rules start. And how I do it. All I see is recycle mode

Airgetlam

I’d assume immediately, since the web process has been taken down for ‘maintenance’, and you’re encouraged to call in.

Bruce

jwkruege

Lyricist III

I have a first gen Play:5 that suddenly died a few weeks ago--won’t power up at all. Took it to two local speaker/electronics repair shops, and they both said they could not fix it because Sonos does not share the speaker schematics. Just another example that Sonos is now in business to keep shareholders happy, not their customer base, environment be damned.

The real disappointment for me is Sonos seemed so customer-focused when I first bought my speakers a few years ago--the active user forums and responses from actual employees. I was in love with company. Now, poof, that's all gone.

No doubt there are other tech/electronics companies that won’t share schematics for repair shops, etc.--so Sonos is just like the rest of them now, part of the problem our kids will inherit. I still have a few non-legacy Sonos speakers in the house and will see how long they last. I’ll just never buy another one. Ever.

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