The only difference in the picture above and the dead player is the color. The dead player is blue. Does anyone know more details about this player? I know this, so far :
Serial number is 4512482ADF0FE
revision 2.00
Chip vendor is Actions
Chip part number is ATJ209X/ACU75XX/ATJ2063
I repartitioned my own player by following steps on another post on here. It now detects as a 1.9gb player, and it works beautifully, once again. I can quickly outline the steps I took, in case anyone has not been able to find the same post I did.
Once my mp3 player had nothing on it again, I opened the MP3 Disk Manager that came with MP3 Utilities 4.05. Despite its saying that my full capacity was 3000-someodd MB, I knew better from my own experiences of trying to reformat it before. I'll explain why I knew better after I finish typing this explanation. I selected low-level format, then clicked the Partition tab. I set the slider to exactly 6010MB and reformatted/repartitioned the drive. When all was said and done, I went to My Computer (Windows XP), looked to see how big my E: drive was. 1.9MB in either RAW or FAT format...can't remember which, but neither works for this. I went to the start menu and selected RUN. Enter in that space the letters CMD and hit enter. Once a window popped up for the command prompt, I typed in FORMAT E: /FS:FAT32
It reformatted the player as 1.9MB in FAT32, and everything worked beautifully after that.
How I knew that 3000-someodd was wrong. I'd experimented with different slider settings before 6010MB, and each time I "successfully" reformatted the player, the memory on the player itself showed 00 and 0% used. Not to mention, I'd get a "disk error" anytime I tried to open any music I placed on it. I experimented with ONE mp3 at a time, each reformat. It took some time, but I finally realized, with Terceslil's help, that I had an almost-2GB player, and I needed to set the slider to something that left close to 2GB for the player's E: drive.
Anyway, that only has been done on one player out of three. My wife's is still reading as 8GB, though we've agreed I'll repeat this process if she starts having errors on hers like I had on mine. My sister's player, however, just shut off while she was listening to a song, and it won't come back on. We plugged it in to the USB cord and port, and it sat, useless, for over a day...not charging, not detecting...NOTHING. Then, all of a sudden, the blue screen with the hour glass came on. I got too excited by this and unplugged the USB cord....the player went back off and hasn't started up since then.
Anyone know what might fix this problem? I can't seem to get the player apart to do what was suggested in the Recovery Guide!
Thanks for your patience (reading my long post),
Herm