Hourglass on fake ipod nano..
 

Hi guys,

I know this has been posted on here somewhere before, but one of the admins said I should start a new topic. So here goes.

I have a fake ipod nano. Looks like the 3rd generation apple ipod.
It was suppose to be 8GB and turns out to be 4 GB instead. I have a few of these and 6 of them are giving me the hourglass screen of death..LOL

The ones that actually work are recogonized by my PC when I plug them into usb port.. The hourglass ones are not..I hear the sound of the device being connected, but the drive isn't there...so I don't know if I can fix these or not..I'm assuming that I can't, seeing as how my PC doesn't recogonize them

OK here's what I could figure out from the ones that work:

Made by Wilson Co. Ltd
Type: S1 MP3 Player
Firmware version:
2007/06/06
9.1.52
GOLZI_S75
2006/06/08

Under the hood..LOL I'm not sure what it all means, but I'll explain each best I can. Here goes..

On side & under screen: TGS177SHOO

Under the menu buttons:
GOLZI
G-18A_Key_Vo.6
2007-12.08

On the main board it says D3C34L10 C41

There are 3 larger black chips on the board each have the following.

Top left chip says:
Hynix KOR
hy27U V08BG5M
TPCB 803A
MTUJ9539MO or a Q not sure, really small..

Next chip says:
(SPT) in a circle..under that
SP3767HN
06GS17

Next Chip says:
AK1025
7K092AB OKR

It's just as well if all the lettering was in chinese, I'd probly understand that more then I understand how to decypher the chip & board info..LOL

Any help getting these to play music again would be greatly appreciated..
hourglass just hangs forever & I've tried all the reset tricks, battery charge...etc..no luck

Thanks in advance
Jason

I don't know if I'm breaking the rules for posting a link to an outside forum, but it shows detailed inside & outside pictures of the player I have..

http://64.233.169.101/translate_c?hl...61TafRofdLc-6w

I think my biggest problem will be getting my PC to recogonize it..
if someone could help me get around that it woud be a great start,

Thanks
Jason

Re: Hourglass on fake ipod nano..
 

You have the quite common Golzi G-18A.

Are the working ones identical to the dead ones (check the inside to make sure, that everything is the same except for e.g. production dates)? If so, you can try s1clone. The dead ones are probably in ADFU mode and waiting for firmware.

Re: Hourglass on fake ipod nano..
 

I think they are identical in every way except the production dates.

I tried s1clone, but I don't know how to create an image file for the working player...Do you???

Thanks
Ftanl

Hi, I've tried to use the S1clone thing again & I get an access denied:OO error

V9.device detected!
giveio version: 3.0
open flash at CS-LINE1
Flash Chip: a555D5AD " Hynix/Samsung 2048MB (LBF)" ( protected=0)

I don't know what any of this means...
The players were sold as 8GB and the memory hack told me there was really only 4GB & now it says 2048MB confused...

any ideas..someone said I had the quite common GOLZI G-18A...if it's so common why can't I find any info on it..???

Thanks
Ftanl

we have the same player nanolike 8Gb i saw your pictures.What is the first thing you did?Please help me i have no idea of all these things..Thank you so much.

Hi, I haven;t done very much with them yet...Still waiting for a helpful reply.

When you plug yours into your PC does the PC recogonize it? mine doesn't.

Does it hang on the hour glass forever? mine does.

I have a working one here that's exactly the same model & type..I can clone the good one to the hourglass one, but I don't know how..

Hopefully someone will be able to help us..I just downloaded a firmware that might work...I'm gonna try it anyway. Will let you know if it works!

Ftanl

When you plug yours into your PC does the PC recogonize it? mine doesn't.

Does it hang on the hour glass forever? mine does.

Computer cannot detect mine too and it is constantly hanging on the hour glass!!!Really annoying i cannot do anything with it.My sister-in-law just gave it to me and after downloading some songs and started playing on it it suddenly goes to the hourglass thing.

Please let me know your updates, really of great help.

Re: Hourglass on fake ipod nano..
 

what firmware did you use?I cannot find any i do not know what firmware to download...
Thanks a lot.

I'm not 110% certain either..

Mine has Golzi G-18A_key_Vo.6

It's made by Wilson Co. Ltd
Screen # is: TGS177Sh00

The first thing we need to do ius get our PC to recogonize the device is plugged in..Then we can try to update the firmware..

There are thousands of post on this site & without somebodys help I doubt we'll get these to play music anytime soon.

I'm going to look for some How to guides for the problems were having..will let you know if I find anything.

Ftanl