DEAD PLAYER RECOVERY GUIDE

XxzMayhemzxX · #**691** (**permalink**) 16th Jul 2007, 3:26 pm

Awesome guide, i just screwed up my player by loading a foriegn firmware and fixed it in an instant.. its not a long process if you do it a few times.. its pretty fast...
Now, to try out the other 3.5.37 fw's until i find the one that matches mine! My original fw has 0 volume on amvs

XxzMayhemzxX · #**692** (**permalink**) 17th Jul 2007, 8:45 am

yeah i wasnt able to load the "AdfuUpdate" file or whatever its called but i just clicked on the usb device on installed hardware on that same screen instead of have disk or whatever and then i loaded my old firmware.
So basically i skipped that step.. i had to follow the red directions, but basically i ended up skipping them i think.

XxzMayhemzxX · #**693** (**permalink**) 17th Jul 2007, 8:54 am

yeah i ruined mine.. to blue screen so i couldnt do anything.. then i fixed it.. back downloading mp3s today

XxzMayhemzxX · #**694** (**permalink**) 17th Jul 2007, 9:07 am

http://img213.imageshack.us/img213/1420/126gw1.jpg

On this step.. instead of clicking have disk(since i was unable to load up the AdfuUpdate), which is on the right, i just selected my device in the window and pressed next button or whatever .Just play around with that step til you get it.

Also, in the device manager, i had the wrong thingy selected, so go back there and make sure you have the right thing selected for your player. I have multiple usb devices connected to mine so i had to keep scanning for hardware to see which one updated then i knew which one was the mp3/4 player

XxzMayhemzxX · #**695** (**permalink**) 17th Jul 2007, 9:10 am

i have to do it for my sisters player too.. which is harder.. the player wont come completely apart because the speaker in back is attached to the front via wires. It plays out loud as well as into a headphone jack

MP4killer · #**696** (**permalink**) 17th Jul 2007, 11:05 am

I too had the dreaded adfuupdate.inf error- "this file does not contain information about your device/hardware" with Win XP. I haven't seen this fix on this forum and I saw this on the S1mp3.org forum, and it worked for me- I opened up the adfuupdate.inf file in notepad and cut and pasted in these extra strings where KaiT said to put them (his english is a little off but his/her coding ROCKS! I have no idea how he/she figured this out):

Quote:

kai-t Joined: 26 Jan 2007 Posts: 6
PostPosted: Thu Jun 14, 2007 5:45 am Post subject: ADFU ADFUUpdate.inf Reply with quote
Hi,

as i tried to recover my MP4 Player after i flashed a wrong firmware, i can't get hin to be detectet as ADFU Device. Even going through the dead recovery guides.
after trying a hole day i recognized that the Problem isn't that the player is not in ADFU mode. The Problem is that the Player has a other Hardwarename.
So you can edit ADFUUpdate.inf to match your Player.

For mine Player, a ATJ2091N with Board: B828 V6 i had to add 2 lines.
One at the beginning after [Upgrade] i added
%USB\VID_10D6&PID_ff66.DeviceDesc%=MDisk.install,U SB\VID_10D6&PID_ff66

And one at the End of the file, in the [Strings] section:
USB\VID_10D6&PID_ff66.DeviceDesc="USB 2.0 (HS) ADFU Device"

After that the Player gets recognized when installing the Driver.

scion · #**697** (**permalink**) 17th Jul 2007, 12:05 pm

My mp4 it ignites but the program does not start.

I have an equal Mp4 to which it is described in this forum. Mp4 it ignites but the program is not restarted and the computer does not recognize it.
Someone can help me. Thank you.

nrx2005 · #**698** (**permalink**) 18th Jul 2007, 11:44 am

How did u know the code for your player ?? can u help with mine ?? my player info can be found in page 47

thx

red_pen · #**699** (**permalink**) 19th Jul 2007, 11:38 pm

well i got as far as getting it to recognizing the player as a usb device and installing the driver but when i try and use one of the firmware's it just hangs on "Downloading the restorable main program" also i used that clone program to make a back up is that what i should use next? to get my player back into working order or do i have to do something else to that.

lattesurf · #**700** (**permalink**) 19th Jul 2007, 11:56 pm

red_pen , s1clone requires you to have a working player, so that it could dump the firmware from it and flash it into the non-working player.

For a dead player recovery, and you are just trying random firmwares. You'll need MP3 Utilities Upgrade Tool, there are many versions of MP3 Utilities that you can download from the downloads section.

If you encounter hanging when you try to flash in some firmwares, try uninstall the MP3 Utilities, and re-install another version.