My music player restarts everytime I try to use it...

dravindragora · #1 (**permalink**) 29th Jun 2006, 2:06 am

When go to the music player, it says "initializing..." then an hourglass appears and I eventualy couldn't play music on it. It always restarts whenever I do that. What shoul I do?

tadad1 · #2 (**permalink**) 29th Jun 2006, 2:16 am

dravindragora, I suggest you extract the firmware from your player using s1fwx, then run the repair.bat. Using MP3 Upgrade Tool reload the firmware back to your player.

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You will find instructions on how to do these tasks in the Knowledge Base HERE

admin · #3 (**permalink**) 29th Jun 2006, 2:45 am

dravindragora

Have you done anything to your player recently? Have you tried updating it with a firmware etc...?

Has you player ever worked before or this is the first time it's happened and only started happening just recently?

I want to try to establish why this has started. Whether it was from updating a firmware or whether there is a corruption in the flash memory of your player.

Look forward to your reply.

dravindragora · #4 (**permalink**) 29th Jun 2006, 3:13 am

1st there were only a limited no. of music files that could be played, after that, it restarted.
the last time i checked, it kept copying folders, infinitely. then there were files called "USB" that took no disk space (had 0kb).
then I tried formating it but the same thing happens, it keeps on restarting but now, i cant even play any music files.

admin · #5 (**permalink**) 29th Jun 2006, 4:02 am

dravindragora

So after the format, you are still having this problem?

Did you try to update the firmware on your player by any chance?

dravindragora · #6 (**permalink**) 30th Jun 2006, 7:38 pm

yes. i do. i can only play a limited no. of songs again. about 4 songs.

. after that, an hourglass apears and it resarts.

tadad1 · #7 (**permalink**) 30th Jun 2006, 7:44 pm

dravindragora, have you extracted, repaired and then reloaded your firmware?

dravindragora · #8 (**permalink**) 30th Jun 2006, 8:12 pm

NO. i havent. the s1fwx says that it cant detect any hardware. (something like that.)

tadad1 · #9 (**permalink**) 30th Jun 2006, 8:28 pm

dravindragora,
It must not be an ACTION BOARD if s1fwx can't detect it. If it is a Sigmatel board I do not think there are any apps to extract and repair the firmware.
Is your player working ok other than with music files?