rockchip player - there are too many bad blocks

knob · #11 (**permalink**) 7th Sep 2007, 1:33 pm

I just tried the Zarva firmware and a very interesting thing happened.
It caused the bad block error on my player!!.:shock:

The good news is I got it back again by alternately trying to flash between my firmware and ConsumerUpdate and the Zarva firmware a few times!!!:roll:

I found that I had to load the zarva firmware into my Consumerupdate to get it to flash otherwise I got write error.

These Rockchip players are very robust I thought I had killed mine for good but it's back again now!!!

It proves as Daremo says that the bad block problem is not permanent

lolita · #12 (**permalink**) 8th Sep 2007, 4:03 am

Your flash chip is failing, please replace.

knob · #13 (**permalink**) 8th Sep 2007, 7:33 am

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Originally Posted by lolita";p=&quot

Your flash chip is failing, please replace.

You may well be right lolita, but my flash chip is working ok now.

If if does fail it is not practical or economic for me to replace the flash chip, I will just get a new Rockchip player, all my media is safely backed up so it is not a worry.

lolita, you seem to have a knowledge of Chinese technology, are you able or kind enough to find chinese software to support Rockchip? or maybe some Rockchip source code to help develop Rockchip tools?

DaremoS · #14 (**permalink**) 8th Sep 2007, 8:08 am

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Originally Posted by lolita";p=&quot

Your flash chip is failing, please replace.

:shock: Come on Lolita!!!... stop being so drastic... this time you're wrong!!

princessanne1026 · #15 (**permalink**) 8th Sep 2007, 3:15 pm

I have good news and bad news. The good news is, the Zarva firmware actually seemed to upgrade my player successfully without the "bad blocks" error. (I downloaded it from the downloads section this time & no more "firmware file error." Thanks DaremoS.) The bad news: as soon as I disconnected the player after the upgrade, it shut off. And wouldn't turn back on. Tried charging through my computer USB port and the travel adapter & even tried shorting the pins again to get it into rockUSB mode. Nothing. What the heck? What happened? I know it wasn't the battery because it was just full when it was in RockUSB mode before the upgrade.

knob · #16 (**permalink**) 8th Sep 2007, 3:42 pm

princessanne1026
You're nearly there, mine did the same thing, the screen went black, I held the menu button down to get it into RockUsb mode, I had to try it a few times though to get it to come alive, but I did get my working firmware back.

DaremoS · #17 (**permalink**) 8th Sep 2007, 3:55 pm

I think that your device is alive but in a "BLACK screen" status. I've suffered that too... then hardware method is the way to make it come back... use a clip by the rounded side.
BUT BEFORE TRY KNOB METHOD WITH ALL THE KEYS!!!
Have you noticed that hardware method hangs USB ports in your PC?
Then do the hardware method after a PC reset.

knob · #18 (**permalink**) 8th Sep 2007, 4:01 pm

I didn't even have to do a "hard" recovery or open up my player I just had to switch it on and off a few times and do the hold menu button down method.

princessanne1026 · #19 (**permalink**) 8th Sep 2007, 5:33 pm

thanks guys. I'll try it and let you know what happens

lolita · #20 (**permalink**) 9th Sep 2007, 1:47 am

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Originally Posted by knob";p=&quot

lolita, you seem to have a knowledge of Chinese technology, are you able or kind enough to find chinese software to support Rockchip? or maybe some Rockchip source code to help develop Rockchip tools?

I work with Actions.