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Originally Posted by wkmccoy
My player looks exactly like yours, except no camera.
A couple of suggestions:
First thought: My wife dropped hers into the car door frame. It went completely white with no turn off or control at all. I let it completly discharge. When I recharged it, it came up--working properly.
Second thoughts: I have bought 5 or 6 of different players which seemed to have mostly similar firmware. See my posts under 'Support and How to' >> 'How to remove hack' -- see the last page of posts.
Overwriting the memory has never seemed to affect the firmware, at least not on my units. I overwrote all of them when
I tested with h2testw.exe (free). I could not redo the memories on my Vista machine, because it would not see the players to re-partition them (though it did re-format them).
One free program 'Active Partition Manager' did work on 3 of my units.
Download the free version at - -http://pcdisk.com/download.html – also download the PDF file.
Do this at your own risk….If your unit is bricked, nothing to lose----
Caution: The next steps will remove all files and directories from the memory (not the firmware)
Plug in your player and run Partition Manager Free. Hopefully it will see your player. Delete the Main Partition. Resize the Unallocated Partition to about 1.8GB for your player.
Reformat with Partition Manager or regular computer Format. The player
might format when you turn it on and off.
If you need the memory directories, I have them.
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Thanks for the suggestions. Hopefully it is only a corrupted storage partition. I had one PC where the ntfs status bit was wrong and could not boot windows at all. I just booted into linux to fix it up.
It may be something similar on this player. It is not totally brain dead as it shows the Welcome screen and also responses with USB ID's when connected to a PC.
I'll try de-soldering the battery directly and check if the partition manager to get to it when I get back home tonight.
This unit is virtually free now as I have received a full refund after filing a dispute via paypal.
It is new. I don't think there is anything wrong with hardware other than the flash size hack. It would be a big waste throwing it to the landfill.