So, I got my Onda VX858 LE Clone (8GB) from TINYDEAL.com today, pretty fast
considering it came from Hong Kong to the US east coast in 8 days.
Firmware version is 00.00.0012
Date 2007-12-13
It was very hard to get this info since the "about" window pops up and is blank and only shows the info right before the box disappears.
I ordered the 8GB model of the player. It came in a manilla packet in a plain brown box.
I played an included movie trailer (Final Destination 3) and it looked good.
Touchscreen was very responsive w/ finger, no stylus included.
So I hook up the player to my PC to check it out, and after a few error messages which seem to stem from the fact that no miniSD card is in the slot, I am able to see two new drives (built-in flash and miniSD slot)
I went to open up the player and am greeted by the beeping of my antivirus program AntiVir Classic. Keep in mind I did a full system scan 2 days ago and am no tech idiot, this was definitely from the player and
not pre-existing on my computer.
antivir report says Virus or unwanted program 'TR/Crypt.NSPM.Gen [TR/Crypt.NSPM.Gen]' detected in file 'G:\pefbutr.exe.
Action performed: Delete file (which it did)
virus info:
http://www.avira.ro/en/threats/secti....nspm.gen.html
(note: G is the drive of the player's flash memory on my PC)
My antivirus deleted the file when I told it to, and I noticed I wasn't able to get into the G:\ drive to look through the files, it was prompting me to select a program to open it with (it should just open in Windows) This resolved upon restarting my PC.
autorun.inf file contents in player root (g:\)
[AutoRun]
open=pefbutr.exe
shell\open=打开(&O)
shell\open\Command=pefbutr.exe
shell\open\Default=1
shell\explore=资源管理器(&X)
shell\explore\Command=pefbutr.exe
--
So I take note of this and delete the file (which was flagged as "hidden"). Run a full antivirus scan on my PC and everything comes up clean, apparently AntiVir caught it before I got infected (not bad for freeware)
I loaded up the player with over 7 gigs of stuff, everything played back great and sounded excellent on my KOSS Plug headphones (people swear by these and they only cost around $10 on the web)
External speaker was quite loud on music and the videos (which I normalized to .65)
I messed with the *.LRC function:
Every video file I converted with viDrop before the player even arrived played without a hitch, including one 90+ minute one except for one which wasn't the right resolution until I fixed it. Fast forward + lipsynch works great.
Video player:
Settings menu:
[Good:
-great touchscreen, great sound, 8 gigs of space that seems legit (RockChip apparently not hackable)
better firmware than the pictures I've seen (not the plain ugly white background)
-Arrived on east coast of USA within 8 days of being shipped from Hong Kong
-easy to figure out UI, already figured out how to use the screen power save feature
-$99.99 shipped is the cheapest I could find this player ANYWHERE, other sites cost at least $10 more with shipping
Bad:
-I can't figure out how to start Tetris, it starts but says PAUSED and I don't know how to unpause to start, if it's even possible
-Can't play FLV files natively (video player won't even see them)
-Preloaded with a trojan horse virus (wasn't a problem for me but I could see this causing some headaches)
-Gives me an error popup when plugging in to PC (pretty sure it's because there's no miniSD card inside, still works fine)
-No firmware included on driver disc (ConsumerUpdate was, however)
-Getting the bubbly, scratched protective film off of the player's screen was a BITCH and a half, it was partially underneath the front cover, finally a sewing needle did the trick.
-At one point, the player started acting extremely erratic and glitching all over the place (weird colors, freezing, unrecognized by PC), I determined the cause of this was that there were too many files on the player
I deleted around 100 and everything running smoothly again. I suspect I filled it too close to the limit, perhaps blocking it's ability to use flash as RAM??? Not sure but working fine now after a hairy few minutes. It seems like 1,000 mp3s could be a bit too many, even the filecount display wouldn't go that high without glitching out
-ID3 tags seem to work somewhat erratically (some won't show the artist and just say the filename even though ID3 info is present in v1 and v2)
Does anyone know how to unpause Tetris or is this just a glitch in the firmware?
Has anyone seen this firmware in a VX858 or VX858LE original or clone? The music player looks different from what I've seen.
Eagerly awaiting dancemammal's firmware extractor so I can mod this bad boy, but in the interim it looks good enough.
I would recommend TinyDeal based on my experience. I would not recommend the player to someone who doesn't have a little bit of computer knowledge or unwilling to accept the quirks of such a device. If you have a bit of a clue of what you're doing and aren't scared by troubleshooting and tweaking a bit, this is a great deal.