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Hi Abandonio,

Thanks for your comments.

I TOTALLY AGREE with your comments about having a more descriptive subject heading when posting in the forum. I always try to edit as many posts I can to make them more descriptive from members. I agree, having a subject such as "HEEEEELP!!! My chipod died!!!" isn't descriptive at all and doesn't really help. I will try to make a sticky about this and hopefully everyone reads about it.

Let's see if I can help answer some of your questions here...

A "Full Firmware" is one that has everything you need to completely recover a dead player. This is usually released by the manfaucturer themselves and always has the .fw file extension. Some .bin files are full as well. You can see if it's a FULL FIRMWARE by running the s1fwx tool on the file. It will show more files than a firmware file that has been 'dumped'.

A "dumped firmware" is one that has been extracted using the s1fwx tool. This is helpful if you are wanting to modify your firmware by changing the images and text in it. Then you would reload the modified firmware back onto your player. The problem is, a dumped firmware doesn't have everything necessary and is missing some files critical in the operation of the player. So that means it will work fine on your OWN player using the SAME dumped file, however, you will have problems if you are using a dumped firmware file on your own player as it will be incompatible as it will require other files to make it operational which will be different.

The problem is, the manufacturers of the ACTIONS chipset players haven't released an official tool to extract and modify the firmware for their players. I guess it's protecting their Intellitical Property. The s1fwx tool was created by wiRe, indepent from the manufactuers of the ACTIONS chipset manufacturers. He's done a create job on it so far but as he doesn't work for them, won't fully know the ins-outs of the chip, how it works etc....

Hope that helps.