Thanks but that disc tool did the same thing as the rest...

On opening the disc tool it reads the drive F: as having 4072.31mb memory capacity.

When I hit Partition/Encryption it states under Partition total disc capacity 8170MB when I slide the bar all the way to the right it states 8153MB the top partition capacity stays at 8170mb

after P/E is finished drive F: pops up and under properties it tells me I have FAT 17.2 mb

I slide the bar all the way to the left & upon completion the drive F: appears again as FAT32 with 3.96GB

I right click drive F: and select Format from the list...when the format screen opens it states Capacity at 7.97GB & file system is FAT32

Windows is still picking it up as an 8GB player & when I check the players memory info from the player menu it reads 0% used of 00 M

Formatting it doesn't change the memory info from within the players menu..it just changes the 3.96GB back to 7.97GB

Removing the hack doesn't seem to work...or I'm doing something wrong in my steps..

What I don't understand is why it would show up as FAT32 and then FAT????? When I use an earlier version of the MP3 Disc tool 3.57 for example..When I do the Partition/Encryption process 2 drives appear F: & J: .....F: has the 17.2MB in FAT & J: has the 3.96GB in FAT32

If anyone has any ideas as to what is going on besides the obvious Hacked memory it would be greatly appreciated..

Ftanl

Re: AK2025 FW ver 9.5.54 Disk Error
 

The existing versions of player utilities are confused by the new chip and probably the flash as well. You need to find a very new version for these players. If I remember correctly 3.xx dates back to the ATJ2085 days.

anyone find anything out on these yet??

My problem is there are 2 partitions on the Mp3 player I guess..1 of the partitions has the HACK along with th rest of my usuable memory.

2 drives appear when I plug it in.
Drive F: is in FAT & Drive J: is in FAT32
I would assume both need to be in same format.

When I try to format drive F: from FAT to FAT32 all I can choose is FAT and NTFS..

In order for me to have access to the actual memory I need to have both in the same format..any ideas??

Thanks
FTANL

Re: AK2025 FW ver 9.5.54 Disk Error
 

You will have to extract the existing firmware from it first before trying anything else.

Already extracted the dump.bin from it lolita..
I have 3 here with the exact same specs.. All 3 are giving me the same problems after completing the 'How to remove memory hack guide"

17.2mb on one drive 4GB on the other both are in different formats.. can't get them both in the same format ( F &J in FAT NO! F&J in FAT32 NO!) one says too big for FAT the other says too small for FAT32..

So I'm stuck at this cross road & seriously considering jumping the shit out of all 3 on the floor..LOL

I've googled the shit out of this & have tried million and 1 things..no luck..

If I extract the firmware like you suggested.What's my next step? reloading firmware from a different source??

Do you think all of the problems are firmware & hack related?

Some professional insight on this would be greatly appreciated..I need a little spoon feeding here guys! waaa waa LOL

Re: AK2025 FW ver 9.5.54 Disk Error
 

Please upload the firmware somewhere for inspection.

Thought I already uploaded in the firmware section.

here is an outside link..
http://www.savefile.com/files/2117077

Re: AK2025 FW ver 9.5.54 Disk Error
 

That extracted firmware is invalid (think about it, how else would 6MB+ compress down to several KB?!?!) --- contains a chunk of rubbish and then several million 00 bytes.

Well I don't know a whole lot about it..That's why I came here..

I will try to get better results on the firmware dump next time..Maybe I did something wrong the first attempt.

Thanks
FTANL

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ic version = 0x0000
storage info = 0x0602, 0x0000, 0x0000, 0x0000
device = ''
manufacturer = ''
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brom version = 3.0.80
firmware version = 9.5.54
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the device keeps disconnecting when the firmware cloning begins..