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Ok guys, not my first time here & probly won't be my last if I continue to buy cheap MP3 players from China.

First off these were purchased on eBay...Suppose to be 3rd Gen iPod Nano clones...seller sent me 4th gen Mp3..No big deal. They were sold as 8GB, so I figure they should be at least 2GB..The final prices were cheap & the 2GB was taken into consideration..I would never pay more then $15USD for anything advertised 8GB....The real 8GB players are priced at $40USd or higher...& even then it's not 100% guaranteed..

On with the show..

The first thing I did with this player was fire it up and see what the menu was like..not the best, but I've seen worse. Next I transferred about 500 songs to the player...They all loaded on there, but when I go to the Menu or root menu for the Songs on the MP3 there is roughly 100 songs available that work..not good at all right..I'm thinking this thing is 1GB at best if I'm lucky..

Next step..I formatted the MP3 with windows & proceeded to use the MP3 Disk Tool to partition and encrypt the memory. On opening the Drive capacity states 4072.32MB / when Partition/Encrypt is open is says 8170MB..

I set the Format to Low & went to Partition/encrypt and slid the bar all the way to the right..clicked on start..went a bit & 2 drives appeared..F: & J:
I checked F: and it had something like 17.52MB...I checked J: and it had 3.96GB or so...fair enought..I might have a 4GB afterall..Clicked OK & Completed the first P/E ...then I slid the bar all the way to the left and did the same process again...When finished I checked my Drives: in Windows and drive F: had 3.96 GB The MP3 Disk Tool on opening still said 4072.32MB & the partition/Encrypt still showed 8170MB...is it normal to see that after the Format/partition/Encrypt processes are completed?

I don't think so...

So I go to the Drive F: and right click choose properties and select Format. When the format window opens Windows still thinks it's 7.96GB. Shouldn't windows read this has 3.96GB now? the same memory capacity I got when I checked F: after I did the P/E???

If you think your confused..How do you think I feel?? LOL

Any ideas? help etc..would be greatly appreciated.

Actions based Mp3 Player
4th generation chipod
Firmware: 9.5.54 ( never seen it before)
QS_Ak2025 ( never seen that before either, AK1025 yes)

Hynix Chip
h27uaG8t2mtr - BC ( not much info on this) 8bit maybe..??