We'll good thing is you backed up your firmware, keep it safe.
I have heard of this happening before, but it never happened to me yet.
Did you try to put rkusb.tag on the player again?, as if the partition wasn't there, and try removing it again. Also try switching the power switch off before you reboot to clear any hidden settings, the player must somehow "think" the tag is still there.
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