FIRMWARE WONT INSTALL

[broose]

i have an mp4 player that needed a firmware after a botched upgrade, anyway i could not find one that worked so i orderd another one from the same vender "Uxcell" but when i go to extract the firmware from the new one i get this message.



if i press continue it seems to extract the firmware. then i try to upload it to the old mp4 and i get a message saying "invalid firmware upgrade file"

the two mp4s are exactly the same so what is going wrong

cheers

[tadad1]

broose, Have not seen the message before.
What method are you using to extract the firmware?
Can you upload the firmware to www.uploaded.to and leave me a link so I can check it out.

Also despite the two players looking the same they may not be using the same components. As you can imagine the Chinese MP4 market is pretty cut throat and if a manufacturer can source cheaper components from different suppliers to maximize his profit he will. Consequently the players can differ from batch to batch.

[broose]

my firmware here www.brucedunton.com/stuff/dumprumble.rar

[tadad1]

broose, What are you using to extract the firmware?

[broose]

s1fwx is there something wrong with it?

cheers

[tadad1]

broose,
None I can see, it is repaired and has no checksum errors.
The player you are trying to load it to do you get a message that the player is in recovery mode when you run the update tool?

[broose]

no, i go through all the recovery stage then load the full firmware then try to load the dump i made.
as far as i can see when i open them both they have identicle parts

cheers

[tadad1]

broose, what version of s1fwx are you using?

[broose]

v26

[tadad1]

broose, a little dated, the extraction and repair process has been upgraded twice since then so download 3.1 here
http://www.mympxplayer.org/s1fwx-31-df417.html
and try a new extraction on your new player.