Dead 1.5" MP4 Player.

Ashwin · #41 (**permalink**) 29th Apr 2006, 12:55 am

www.wilson.co.ltd.xfou.com <--- Try this site arish-06

admin · #42 (**permalink**) 29th Apr 2006, 1:02 am

arish_06,

I just had a thought about your player.
I think it might be have a SIGMATEL or SUNPLUS solution board instead of an ACTIONS (s1mp3) board. These are different boards and the firmware is completely different! This might explain why you can't find a working firmware for your player.

Try downloading and using this tool: UDisk Checker to see what information comes up.

I have a Sunplus and Actions player.

It identifies the "Sunplus" one as "Sunplus".
It identifies the Actions (s1mp3) player as "USB 2.0 (FS) FLASH DISK (USB1.1)"

Let me know what yours come up as.....

arish_06 · #43 (**permalink**) 29th Apr 2006, 5:37 pm

Thanks Binh, but I have to open my player up and short-circuit it again...I'll let you know when I get to it....but I am pretty sure it's gonna come up as "USB 2.0 (FS) FLASH DISK (USB1.1)" because that's what it came up as when windows first recognized it as a new hardware (when I bought it).

arish_06 · #44 (**permalink**) 29th Apr 2006, 5:41 pm

Thanks for the link Ashwin but they only have firmwares for standard mp3 players (3.0.43, etc).

Maybe I should contact them and ask them for mp4 firmwares.

arish_06 · #45 (**permalink**) 4th May 2006, 12:15 am

...I just found another link that might have some more mp3/mp4 tools and firmwares:

http://ygsm.gnway.net/ygsm/

There's a 3.2.16 version firmware --> to download, click on "107.zip" link.

...doesn't work with my player but i thought it could help others out.

arish_06 · #46 (**permalink**) 10th May 2006, 8:12 pm

Binh, I tried the U Disk Checker and it gave me

"USB 2.0 (FS) FLASH DISK (USB1.1)"

..still no luck with firmware though

sak_cheegii · #47 (**permalink**) 1st Jun 2006, 8:11 pm

U all are trying dump.bin? if you backed up your firmware, maybe you need another firmware to start your mp player. you can update your mp with dump.bin, but you need full mp player booting. you can try updating with m600.bin then you disconnect your mp player. and connect again and wait, your mp plyer can connect to your computer as removal disk. finally you can update with your backed up dump.bin. It will work. if it is displays black or blue screen, it is not comfortable firmware to you mp player. Try shorting with memory chips if you cannot connect with recovery mode like ADFU mode for S1 mp players. then you can update with full FW. after that you can update dump.bin! Even it is not starting or turning on, or can't connect to the computer with recovery mode. there may have technical problem with your mp player. if it is happens, try changing Quarts with 24.576 Mhz or changing ATJ2085 chip or soldering again your mp players plugging! I found that, the mp players boot uploaded in ATJ2085 chip and firmware software uploaded in memory chip. There is many kind of chip of MPX players, like ATJ2085, ATJ2085P, ATJ2085W. ATJ2085W is often for MP4 players. Finally boot rom's version 3.0.00
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corrio · #48 (**permalink**) 2nd Jun 2006, 3:08 pm

Hi!
I have a 2GB mp4 player like this:
mp4 player

I tried to upgrade the firmware, everything was OK, but until the upgrade i could format only to 1GB. The player works fine.
I put back the backup (original) firmware, but the player is already 1 GB. I try lot of software like (mp3util, HP flashformat, normal format, low level format etc.) and every software "say" it's only 1GB. Could you help me?
If i backup the original firmware, why 1 GB the capacity?????

Thanks.

arish_06 · #49 (**permalink**) 2nd Jun 2006, 4:40 pm

Corrio, I am sort of having the same problem. My player, though not the same as yours, was originally 512 MB but after some bad upgrades and formats, it got down to 486 MB. Seems like formatting the player kills some of the memory.

Did your computer recognize it as 2GB before you tried to upgrade it? I think although formatting may cause some memory loss, it shouldn't kill 1GB of memory.

On second thoughts, maybe formatting doesn't kill memory but it's the loaded firmware on the player that takes up the memory...because I upgraded my dead player with another firmware (which by the way didn't recover it) and the memory got back to 493 MB.

Are you sure your player had 2GB ("Giga Bytes") and not 2Gb ("Giga bits")? If it was 2 Giga bits, than it means that your player has 8 times less memory that you thought it had. (1 Byte = 8 bits)

As far as I know, s1 mp3/mp4 players don't come with 2 Giga Bytes...maybe just up to 1 Giga Byte.

...But sadly I found this out when I had already placed an order for a 2GB mp4 player on ebay after I couldn't recover my old player. It turns out that it has 2Gb, not 2GB...so I got conned pretty bad.
2Gb = 256MB

I've had so much loss on mp3/mp4 players...eventually at some point you're gonna have trouble with firmware or memory or you're gonna realize that you've been conned.

admin · #50 (**permalink**) 3rd Jun 2006, 1:24 am

arish_06

The mpx players are good for the price you pay for them. Ok, they are no Nano's and iPod videos, but heck of a lot cheaper! Also you get the option of reskinning your player and customising it. Makes it abit more fun than just the 'dull' Nano's which cost a lot of money too.