DEAD PLAYER RECOVERY GUIDE

tophusller · #**651** (**permalink**) 26th Apr 2007, 5:13 pm

I am sure someone while be able to help you with that. it seems to be an easy to fix problem.

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Originally Posted by JarlSX";p=&quot

Hi,

first post to these forums for me. read all 44 pages of this topic (and several other topics). also have a 'dead' player (as in, blueish screen, works if you know what button to press).

have tried numerous firmwares, but nothing does the trick. some of them even make it unreachable, so i used the 'reset trick' a couple of times. really weird to have to shortcircuit random pins to get it to reset.

anyway, i was trying on 2 computers, and i think i've found what causes the "specified location does not contain information for your hardware" error upon trying to install the adfu driver. my desktop has windows 2000, my laptop has XP. on windows 2000, i cant install the driver (error as mentioned in this post, not the signing problem), on XP i can. so i think the adfu driver is XP only.

having said that, i still have a dead player

i wonder why Uxcell doesnt have full firmwares? just updates that kill your player

anyone know what full dump works for the i-nickel 1gb player?
mine originally had 9.0.48 by the way

kuhris · #**652** (**permalink**) 26th Apr 2007, 8:47 pm

can someone please help me. I tried these steps and now it's worse. The MP4 player still isn't being detected as a ADFU Server. When I try installing the driver it says "the specified location does not contain information about your hardware". Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

JarlSX · #**653** (**permalink**) 27th Apr 2007, 2:17 pm

@Kuhris, are you on windows XP or 2000? if 2000, read my last post, a couple of posts back

@tophusller: well, not full firmware to be found for the i-Nickel, or so it seems

tophusller · #**654** (**permalink**) 27th Apr 2007, 7:51 pm

Oh Oh well that is to bad for kuhris.

sak_cheegii · #**655** (**permalink**) 27th Apr 2007, 10:06 pm

try installing new device from C:\program files\MP3 Player Utilities\RDiskupdate\drivers folder

kuhris · #**656** (**permalink**) 27th Apr 2007, 10:32 pm

I tried it on 3 machines, all of which have XP and all 3 computers gave me the same error. Before following the instructions the screen of the MP4 player was frozen on an hourglass, and afterwards the screen doesn't even light up. I don't know if that is normal because the memory got wiped, or if I damaged something in the process. I was planning on trying on a Windows 98 computer if I can find one because it seems to have helped one person, but if that doesn't work is there anything else that I can try?

sak_cheegii · #**657** (**permalink**) 29th Apr 2007, 7:33 pm

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Originally Posted by kuhris";p=&quot

I tried it on 3 machines, all of which have XP and all 3 computers gave me the same error. Before following the instructions the screen of the MP4 player was frozen on an hourglass, and afterwards the screen doesn't even light up. I don't know if that is normal because the memory got wiped, or if I damaged something in the process. I was planning on trying on a Windows 98 computer if I can find one because it seems to have helped one person, but if that doesn't work is there anything else that I can try?

I think you have to resolder your memory then you can update it new firmware. And do you know your mp's memory capacity? If it is larger like 1g, you need full firmware update and then you may update your older firmware. if your older firmware dumped, you have to make a full firmware.

kuhris · #**658** (**permalink**) 30th Apr 2007, 1:54 am

Thank you everyone for your help. I have managed to fix the problem by using Windows 98. Now I'm stuck at finding the right firmware, so I will try to do that tomorrow. Unfortunately my "8GB" player is only 961MB, I was hoping for at least 2GB. Anyways, if anyone has the same problem as me, which is getting the message "the specified location does not contain information about your hardware" when trying to get your MP4 player to be recognized as an ADFU Server, try doing it on another OS. In my case XP wasn't working but Windows 98 did. A guy a few messages above had the same problem but it wasn't working with 2000, but it did with XP. It doesn't make much sense, and neither does shorting the chip, but in the end it still works. Once again, that you for these instructions and for your help.

JarlSX · #**659** (**permalink**) 1st May 2007, 12:13 am

ah, glad you got it to work, odd you had my 2000 problem with XP

i still have a dead player

i wonder where those other full firmwares came from?
cant someone email uxcell? i mailed them too, no answer

sak_cheegii · #**660** (**permalink**) 1st May 2007, 7:43 am

Short memory pins between 29-32, 41-44 for ADFU mode. You must unplug the battery before short the pins!
Safe short and clear job. check in it: here.