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Old 9th May 2009, 1:47 am
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Default Re: kind of dead mp4, ak1025 neeeed help

Probably hardware, especially the flash chip might be developing bad blocks in the first 4 blocks (the boot records). The boot loader loops until it can successfully verify all 4 of them, so if any one starts giving read errors it will keep trying to "repair" by erasing and rewriting them.
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