Why do the players die in the first place?
 

My mp4 player died on me. It was working fine yesterday, and today whenever I turn it on all I see is the blue screen with hourglass. :(

All I could think of that I did was set the sleep timer. All the files in it were working fine, and I haven't exceeded the memory of the player (well, I think its actual memory is 1 g, but I put 498 mb in there). I don't know if the batteries ran out but I tried recharging it and the blue screen won't go away.

I have an "8 GB" ipod nano clone
Core: ACT 9x-0.43
FW: SRX-1.5c-001
both from 2006.

http://flypicture.com/download/MzIwMzQ=

I will try the dead player recovery guide, but I want to know if my player will die at random or if there's something I can do to avoid it.

Any ideas??

Thanks :D

kermit12 , there are many reasons that can cause a player to "die".

Most common cases are wrong updates by the user and hacked memory which causes firmware corruption.

Other causes could also be poor components used that resulted in faulty hardware, or poor firmware coding causing a firmware crash. Also could include the user not handling the player properly (ie dropping it, etc).

Have you formatted your player with MP3 Utilities Disk Tools to remove the hack? If not, then likely that might be one of the causes of the player failure.

Re: Why do the players die in the first place?
 

Bad NAND flash.

For economy, sector remapping in firmware area is not performed.