Dead Blueberry CAT mp4 player, need help recovering

sterbik · #1 (**permalink**) 15th Oct 2007, 1:39 pm

Hi!

I have a Blueberry CAT mp4 player. I installed the wrong firmware and it shut down and didn't power up. After that here I found a very useful tip, that explained how to recover a dead player. My player now powers up, my pc recognizes it, but I still can't find a good firmware. I also formatted it. It doesn't have a website and there are a thousand firmwares available to download, but I don't know which one is for my player. If the firmware has installed successfully, I can power up the player, but there is just a blue screen. It looks like if it tries to boot up.

This is the player that I have:

http://www.multicom.co.yu/view_article.php?id=2227

What type of firmware do I need?
Please help, I just bought this player a year ago!

vvxiao · #2 (**permalink**) 15th Oct 2007, 8:02 pm

sorry to hear that and i am not master ur players. u can go to this FAQ about mp3/4 players, where it has some firmwares, u need to try all the different versions of firmware provided at their website in order to find the one that allows the player function again.

wish u have a good luck!

admin · #3 (**permalink**) 15th Oct 2007, 8:29 pm

LOL, some of the tutorials over at sourcingmap.com mentioned by vvxiao, if you look carefully is actually a total rip copy of our tutorial! Even the screenshots and text are exactly the same!

Look at the "How to copy music, videos, and photos to an MP3/4 player?" tutorial and the "How to upgrade the firmware on an MP3/MP4 player?" tutorial, they are both EXACT copies from our site! Word for word as well as screenshots.

sterbik · #4 (**permalink**) 16th Oct 2007, 6:54 am

Another person who has the same player as me, said that he has a "lsc_514_04_ 2006/08/15 act_v3.5.37" firmware. It's working for him. i think it came with the player. I'll will keep trying to download some firmwares until I find one that works.

sterbik · #5 (**permalink**) 16th Oct 2007, 9:18 am

What does "s1mp3" mean? I've tried many firmwares. Some of them just freeze while my player is booting up. My PC doesn't have a problem detecting it, It only installs the "s1mp3" files.
What type of firmware do I need?
In it's users manual says that the latest firmwares can be found on it's website, but it doesn't even have one!

sterbik · #6 (**permalink**) 16th Oct 2007, 9:18 am

I think it is an ipod nano clone. At least it looks like one.

sterbik · #7 (**permalink**) 16th Oct 2007, 12:01 pm

I don't know what this means, but on the back side of the player there is this code: MP-732CV1-SL 2005.11.05.

How should I format it, using FAT or FAT32?

I searched for the code on http://www.s1mp3.org/pl/downloads_fw.php, the "MP-732CV1-SL 2005.11.05." should work with my board, but it's not. I still have a blue screen.

sterbik · #8 (**permalink**) 19th Oct 2007, 8:10 am

I recovered it!!! :P :P

I was downloading many firmwares from another website. I was working on it for hours. Then I came back to this forum and downloaded one and it worked! I searched for the firmware on this forum in the past days, but I haven't noticed the correct one.

The dead player recovery guide is very helpful!

Thank you guys for this wonderful website!