eBay seller: safe2star - sells hacked players

DHK · #11 (**permalink**) 27th Mar 2010, 9:30 am

I'd probably start by loading some big video files on them and see if they play or not? and if u start getting file format errors and such the memory might not be 16 gigs. Mine would play a small video clip but not a whole movie of the same file and format so that was my first clue..!! Hope u got a couple of good ones though..

ians1 · #12 (**permalink**) 27th Mar 2010, 10:46 am

Well out of 4 ordered ( I really am stupid) the score is

2 look like they may be fake chip/hack etc got some interesting info by using some other utils will post a link when I figure how to

1 looks dead on arrival, plug in blank screen and windows says "unrecognised USB device"

1 touch screen one not arrived yet.

2 different sellers on ebay

I have filed a claim for the 2 x 16Gb ones so far not performing

ian

ians1 · #13 (**permalink**) 27th Mar 2010, 12:00 pm

My seller was

supernova9106

ian

fueldragster · #14 (**permalink**) 28th Mar 2010, 10:13 am

Dear Ian
My version of the utilities download contained rdiskutility.exe (within a subdir).
So far the most satisfactory method of resetting the reported capacity I have found is the chkflsh method described in recent postings by frozensoda on other threads. This has worked well on some hacked players but you need to know what actual value you are going to go for and it seems to need the device to be in a state where it only reports one drive letter (in one instance running a partition manager allowed me to delete the "second" drive, for another unit it just refuses). The next method I would try is rdisk.

ians1 · #15 (**permalink**) 28th Mar 2010, 11:26 pm

Got a refund of US$20.50 today for one of these

ians1 · #16 (**permalink**) 28th Mar 2010, 11:30 pm

so basically I got a 2GB mp3 player totally free!

just the other one to come but I suppose that will be fake also

paid $33.10 for that one, lets see what he does if I claim that one

ians1 · #17 (**permalink**) 28th Mar 2010, 11:34 pm

I paid $48 for the other 2 that were from this seller

supernova9106

claim is still in progress

DHK · #18 (**permalink**) 29th Mar 2010, 9:56 am

Quote:

Originally Posted by ians1

so basically I got a 2GB mp3 player totally free!

just the other one to come but I suppose that will be fake also

paid $33.10 for that one, lets see what he does if I claim that one

Nice 1 ians, i was gonna buy one of those myself. think they r even trying 2 pass em off as 32 gigs now! What a joke...

ians1 · #19 (**permalink**) 29th Mar 2010, 10:03 am

Says he gonna refund the whole lot for the touch screen and the other ones half refund

If all the money ends up in paypal safely I will let you know

What a run around for something I trusted was genuine!

ian

DHK · #20 (**permalink**) 29th Mar 2010, 10:23 am

Hey Ian which method did you use 2 reformat your player? do you think it will work with mine? I'll try and attach a pic here....