yes, It seems these players are just made to make a quick buck out of buyers who want a player to look like an ipod, it's the vx858 all over again.
When I lost my 60mb partition I had to do the pin shorting trick to get S-flo toolkit to recognise it, but the problem was my own fault, i was "experimenting"
ops: with firmware at the time, I can't say I have any problems with normal use.