Originally Posted by alex2pb

Hi scatwell :). Thanks for the link. If it's ok I can add it to my glacier and alike repair guide. About the hack, I did a little bit of research and in my opinion it's not the sellers that hack the firmwares. It seems that the factory does that. Here's why I think that: The firmware is made by a few files which are all put in 1 file. Those files are mainly the music player, the recorder, the radio, etc. Those are all the programs the main kernel executes when you access the menu items. Somewhere between these files, there's the bootloader and a driver (I guess) that holds the flash type. The kernel (the main program) loads this driver and executes it. Now, depending on the chip inside, it will choose the proper driver program for the flash. Here's the tricky part. Whoever produces these players and has the sourcecode for the firmware, forces the kernel to load a higher capacity flash driver and the player reports a higher capacity.

I am still trying to get the firmware out from the clone file, but I am not sure it's possible. I'll report back if i get it to work.

Thanks again for the clone file.

Originally Posted by alex2pb";p=&quot (Post 34321)

That's nice. I suggest you use 7-zip to pack the file. I compressed a ~200 mb file down to 8 mb with it. What you need is to use the ultra level and put the dictionary to 48 mb or bigger (but you'll need a good computer with lots of RAM memory). Here I couldn't even move the mouse while compressing (only 384 mb of ram).

Btw, good news, I found 2 new glacier firmwares and one of them is 9.1.5.1 :). I'll make those available as soon as I can.