How about your Glacier player?
 

Got it today, first impressions:
It's small! Sound is very clear, even with the headphones that comes with it.
Charger charges for 5 seconds, then player reports " finished charging", though battery is only half full.
It charges when connected to an usb port, lucky me.
The player is black, but the earphones are white, ugly!
The usb connector is hidden under a rubber lid, really hard to get it off, had to use a knife, anxious for damaging.
The phone jack needs pretty much force applied to get the phones in, so much I hardly dared to!
Did not have to pay any import tax or vat, so it's a steal for 41 euro shipping included. And as a bonus, a $5 off coupon for my next order!

So, what do you think about yours?

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Here's my review of the player that I won on this site recently.
I agree with most of your points on the player. It's a great little unit that really has a lot going for it. I also tend to compare it to the first clone I bought which didn't have the best build quality to it.
The Glacier has very responsive buttons that don't require you to press very hard to activate it.
The sound is outstanding, both from the headphones and from the built in speaker. Crisp and clear. Sound is what it's all about after all.
The screen quality is impressive. The photos and videos play quickly and with excellent visual quality unlike the old clone I had that made viewing a chore and not worth the trouble. I'm very impressed with this feature. One that I will definately be using on the Glacier.
The USB cover was extremely hard to pry up to expose the connection. The USB plugged into my computer and recognised the unit right away with Windows xp. I didn't even bother with the CD's it came with.
The USB cable is a bit short, which disappoints me. I can't leave the unit on my desk while charging as it just won't reach. With my old player, I was able to use my Fuji camera USB cable which was longer, but it's not compatible with the Glacier which is unfortunate.
I liked the colour of the headphones (white) even if the player itself is black. I won't use them though as I personally don't like that style of headphones. They always tend to fall out of my ears with even the slightest movement. I've got a Sony folding compact over the head set that works for me. Folds right up and fits in my pocket.
The headphone jack was a bit tight for plugging in the phones, but since it feels like a durable player, I wasn't concerned about damaging it.
The back cover is a bit loose, I can move it side to side ever so slightly, but not enough to bother me too much. Depending on battery life, I may look into getting another battery for it. A real Nokia battery to greatly enhance battery time.
I'm not one who usually needs a voice recorder, but because this one works so well, I'll have some fun with it a work and record some conversations. Shhhh, don't tell anyone I'm bugging the place! :lol:
The ebook feature is there, but I've never been impressed with the way words are chopped off at the end of the line. Makes reading very hard to do smoothly. I prefer my pocket pc Book reader for reading ebooks and text.
Only one game came with the Glacier, a Tetris type game which didn't keep my interest, since I pushed the wrong button with my fat fingers and was thrown out to the main menu. I had a decent score and had to start all over again. I'll stick with my Nintendo DS for my gaming pleasure.
The MP3 features have improved, and now there is file viewing and folder browsing, something my other clone just doesn't offer. Made finding songs impossible. Now I can find the folder I want, scroll down the list of songs, press a button and immediately get that song to playback for me.
I've only just started using this unit so I've still got to try creating some videos for it sized for the 1.8" screen to test out. The photos I copied to the player were very lousy quality compared to the samples so I've got to figure out how to improve the quality settings before I copy them. Uncompressed raw JPEGS take ages to load, so some form of optimum compression ratio has to be perfected yet.
All in all, I'd give this player an 8 out of 10. It lost a couple of points due to the short USB cable. The poor fit of the headphones (maybe it's just my ears!),rough fit of the USB cover, and the inclusion of only one game.

Nice review Louie! An update, charging is better now, since I've drained the battery empty. I left it on the charger overnight, and the battery is full. Also found new li-ion batteries for it with 1300mah, delivered home for about 6 euro! This is one of those things you keep getting happier with, over use.
A tip for a fw-update: more games (sudoku?), something done to the sound on the radio function while charging, because the radio ticks like a clock then.

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If you want more games or Applications to use with this (or any) player, then check out these Portable Apps.
You can install these programs onto your player and access these by USB linking to your computer and running the executable files directly from Windows Explorer.
This works great for me at work, where I am able to use Firefox Portable and not leave any surfing history/viruses/unwanted installs on the work computers since the programs run from the player and doesn't install anything to the PC. There is quite an assortment of programs to choose from.

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Thanks! Now the misses can play Sudoku at her lunchbreak at work, and I don't have to worry no more about her breaking my Mio pocket pc.

I just put an .ogg file on the player, and it plays!! I love .ogg, clearer sound at the same rate as mp3.

I just got a Glacier player yesterday and seem to have a problem with it. It reboots without reason. Sometimes I page through the menus to get to an album and hit play and it reboots and I have to do it all over again, sometimes I unplug the earphones and it reboots, sometimes when I plug in the earphones it reboots, it has rebooted at other times also, mostly when I hit the play key upper left one. It also resets the clock.

Also is there a way to turn off the display when its running? The manual is a laugh to read and try to understand.

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Sorry to hear about the player problems. Mine is working perfectly. Can't offer any advice on how to solve your trouble.
To turn off the player, I press and hold the play button (upper left button) until the Bye screen appears. Turning it back on later returns me right back to what I was listening to. I only just glanced at the manual when I got the player, but I know what you mean about trying to understanding it! http://img40.imageshack.us/img40/3444/crazy1no.gif

Update I think the problem is the battery connection. The 3 tits that set on the battery are very week and hardly touching. I noticed a solder tit on one of them and it was not sticking out as far as the others. I pushed a piece of cardboard at the bottom of the battery and it seems to not reboot now. Time will tell.

Louie: Can you push up on the bottom of your battery or is it tight? Mine had some slack.

LarryIwill: Maybe taking the battery out, pressing the buttons, will unload all the capacitors and get the anomalies out. Check the battery contacts too. Your phone plug might be bad and shorting, is it the same with another headphone?
In the main menu go to settings, lcd, set darkle time at the desired time. To save the time you will need to exit with M, or it won't save.
EDIT too late, well luck with the player, you'll love it.

Yes I did that. Now it looks like my battery died even though it showed full. Since It was not charged I'm charging it now. When I first got it it dumped all the music and the movies when I plugged it in to charge. Then I started getting an error what ever menu I chose. I hooked up to the usb on my computer and I have been able to put some music back on it and now I have these menus looking at my computer when its hooked up I get.
Music
Playlist
Record
Under record I have Music
Picture
Voice but I don't see Movies anywhere.
Where do you put movies?

Headphones are ok. I think it was a loose battery, not sure yet though.
thanks

I don't see any folders here, just an extra drive with anything in the root. I put folders with music files on it, and single long musicfiles just in the root. The video's that were on it and the pictures were in the root also.

Is there a way to change the welcome screen to say a .jpg of your own?

DOES THIS ITEM SUCK,,, OR DOES IT JUST SUCK?....... LIKE THEY SAID BEFORE<, ABOUT ALL THE PHYSICAL FLAWS..... BUT MINES IS REBOOTING A LOT ALSO LIKE SAID BEFORE<,, AND EVERY NOW AND THEN MORE AND MORE SONGS ARE SAYING "FORMAT ERROR" WELL DUMBF*#@$ MP4 IT DIDNT SAY TAHT A FEW MINUTES AGO..... AND WHEN I ERASE SONGS FROM THE BUILT IN 2 GB DRIVE... IT ERASES THE FILE, BUT THE MEMORY STILL EXIST IN THE MP4.... SO NO MY MP4 IS "FULL CAPACITY" WITH NOTHING IN IT......... WTF!!!!

vooshroom, It sounds like your player has a hacked memory chip and is proberably not a 2GB at all. Use this guide by "lattesurf" to fix the problem.
http://www.mympxplayer.org/how-to-re...ck-vt2400.html

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also, can anyone link me to where to get the bigger-capacity battery?

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just got mine, my comments are pretty much the same as everyone else it seems:

+
-great finish/sturdy construction (my battery cover also seems pretty tight)
-screen is pretty nice
-conversion software works great and the glacier itself gets detected easily

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-i inserted the cable one time while it was on, or turned it on while plugged in and then turned it off, and it mysteriously deleted everything on the player giving me that format error, so i just reformatted the whole thing in windows and it works now.
-i have no clue what's going on with the battery, it seems i can only charge it through the wall charger and not through the cable to a computer, and even after leaving it plugged in for a while the battery indicator is only half full, which goes down to one bar after playing something. wtf? i'm leaving it in the wall charger for a bit again to see what happens.
-also, my battery connection does seem to be a lil loose as well, maybe getting the larger battery might help as it rebooted on me a few times.

You probably suffer from weak battery contacts too. I had trouble with the wall charger, but after a charge through the usb port, it charges okay with the wall charger. Maybe a quirk, from being off so long between production and use. My gf's samsung's battery became better after some unload/load sequences too. Anyway, I'm looking around for another battery of the bl-4c type. Lots on ebay, till 1700mAh.

yeah you're right, i used it until the battery died, and now it's been actually charging through the wall adapter for about 3 hours now. very weird indeed, seems like it shouldn't take this long but whatever, let's see how it works past this point.

in addition, i noticed the addendum to the instructions that says don't use the switch to turn it on and off, but instead just hold down the play button. kinda whack.

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The battery contacts seem to be an issue here too. Could not record from radio without distortion, like a ticking clock, through the phones. Same when changing volume with the radio, as long as the speaker icon blinks on screen, the player goes tick tick tick. Was also while listening to the radio and charging, and when changing stations, or while storing/saving stations. With the battery lid off, it would loose power if moved, so also stuck a piece of carton under the small side, opposite battery contacts. And now all the glitches are gone, no more distortion. :shock:

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At least, that's what I thought. Already in contact with uxcell what to do, distortion stays on the radio while recording and while charging.
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i've got a brand new Glacier from ebay.
1gb black (screen is 2" 230x175)

sorry that you only have one game :(

mine has this list of games in the "games" menu:

- "Russia block" (fun tetris game) has the "pressing wrong button exits to menu" problem
- "Huarong Road" (some crazy chinese game i never understood how to play)
- "Move Box" (fun puzzle game with a picture of a cool car )
- "Snake" (just like on old nokia phones)

i love the player and the battery life is really long but the videos lag because of the giant screen size and the welcome and good-bye logos are REALLY stupid and i would like to change them i tried the s1fwx and s1res , it successfully makes a dump but repair won't "repair" it and s1res says "....incorrect format" also i just got it so i really REALLY don't want to risk to kill it with the wrong firmware just because of the logos...

problem is im a real noob in this i've already killed 2 pc's, 1 mp3 and one phone with different attemps on changing the BIOS/Firmware... :lol:
so please give some help/advise before I attempt something dumb...


SERSOFT

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update: just found out the real resolution: 220x176 :)

I guess the firmware is to new to be supported by the latest s1fwx and s1res. We have to wait for an update. What firmware version do you have? Here:
9.0.48
ACT2097_S75
date: 2006/06/12

Re: How about your Glacier player?
 

in the mp4 there's a menu that tells you the firmware version 8) mine is :

2006/10/30
9.0.50
ACT2097_S75
2006/06/12

I really have to wait for the new hack tools??

but Im almost sure that the seller from ebay updated the firmware why can't I change the "welcome" and "Bye Bye" bitmaps...

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:evil: :evil: :evil: :evil: :evil: :evil: :evil: :evil: :evil: :evil: :evil: :evil: I'm going CRAZY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Started up my Glacier, no Uxcell screen, but an hourglas, and that's how it stays. Windows finds new hardware when connecting to usb, but it doesn't take the adfuUpdate.inf, says the files has no information for the hardware, at least, close to that. I tried the method described, through device manager.
Oh well, I have another one.
So took the other one out of the box, connected it to the usb, put some more music on, ejected the p:/ drive, which it is, connected the phones, browsed to the music and PUFFFFF away goes the screen, never to be seen again. Windows shows it still as a drive, as 2 drives actually, of which one is accesable. The battery is full, does nothing on a charger. No sound at all.
2 dead players :x :x
This is too much for a single brain!!!!!!!!!!!

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I think my player is not from uxcell at all (no uxcell screen at startup just an ugly animated character and a colorful moving WeLcOmE text.) The player's shape, battery, features and menu stuff are exactly the same as on the one from Uxcell so i still hope some1 can help me with changing the firmware.

shiiiit how can 2 players randomly kill themselves just like that?

and I thought I had a bad day... well, there's always worse...
...your computer explodes in your face then your house is on fire and you lose all your stuff and then randomly get arrested by the police and the car driving you to the prison crashes and you die .. just joking lol


SERSOFT

LOL, seen it happening, fork fell on the floor right in the cat's tail, cat jumped up and took the table cloth with it on the way down, olive oil on the table rolled right over the carpet all the way to the fire place, Whoooshhhh If filmed it would have given me the funniest home video $25.000 award, alas..
Got one glacier off the hour glass (or is it: even the hour glass isn't showing any longer), and could install the afdu update driver, from a downloaded program called mp3 player product tools 4.19.
Not much more I can do about it but wait for Uxcell to answer.

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sorry to hear that, the Glacier is really good player (for me it works wothout any problems) also i found another 3.7v nokia battery in my basement and it works just fine just like the battery that came with the player ! lucky me 8) just one problem is the system clock resets when the battery is removed but i never use that anyway. so now i got twice the play time when there's no computer around (when there's a computer I can always charge it cuz I use the mp4 as a flash drive for my documents so I carry the wire with me)

about the cat jumping on table cloth,
I remember a tv commercial where a woman was watching tv and suddenly, she dropped the remote on the plate, it falls from the table on the cat, the cat jumps on the curtain that falls from the window in the aquarium and breaks it, the water falls on the electricity plug that breaks the TV and the lights, then on air-conditioning which falls outside of the house on her car and the car alarm goes on ... all that in a few seconds
I think it was a commercial for Tylenol or something about headaches
it was about a year ago but it was truly hilarious. that woman really needs Tylenol now :lol:


SERSOFT

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I think I kill my Glacier. I got a problem that it appears "Wrong file format" when ever the second AMV file is loaded, which means Glacier can only exist one AMV file. If I tried to load two or more AMV files (each files is about 400 Mb), the second one can not be played. To test this, I formated many times to get rid of folders that created automatically (It always creats subfolders). Then, somehow I found my player has a capacity of 228Mb instead of 1.9GB. What does it imply, I kill the player?...........

It should play more than 1 amv file, worked on my 2 glaciers when they were still alive, had 3 movies on them.
There's a setting for multidrive etc. in the player's setting menu, what is your player set at? Is your player seen as 2 drives in "my computer"?

@All, could someone upload or send me a firmware dump of the Glacier, as a last resort I think I have to fiddle with one of my Glaciers, before I can send them back wednesday.

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I would send you a firmware dump if I could just extract it from the player :(

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I've been reading throught the last page of posts here. Sorry to hear about your troubles Que. Woah! Not one, but two dead players. That's terrible luck. My player has been working perfectly since I received it. No problems at all with sound.
Sersoft, my player from Uxcell has the same startup screen as yours,(an animated guard playing a tuba--and a wizard waving for the goodbye screen).
I've been using my player at work as well to surft the internet. I've loaded Firefox Portable on it and can access the Internet with the player hooked up via USB. I've loaded my bookmarks on it and can surf at work anonymously now! 8) I also have Sudoku portable on it as well since I'm addicted to this game.
I'll be buying another player next year. I'll be looking if there are newer players coming out next year or else I'll just pick up another Glacier as I'm happy with it.

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Yeah i got those logos too, my player might be from Uxcell, but i got it off ebay, also, did you know you can just copy your local Firefox from C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox and configure it to store settings on the mp4, i just wish i could browse the internet using the player, without the need of a computer, just like a PSP or Windows based PDA.

Thanks Sersoft, but please forget I asked, don't want to get someone into trouble and end up with a non working player. Uxcell has to fix it, doesn't seem normal that a player should die after a week, or even shorter on the second one.
I had the Uxcell logo as an animation on startup, and a waving goodbye wizard on exit, with a white Chinese text on black just after the wizard.

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I've found a weird problem with my glacier I dunno why but the clock on it goes too fast! I never used it until now but last night I put the right time on it and this morning the time was about 2 hours too advanced!! why? I tried putting it back but I can even see that the seconds go too fast... Does anybody else have this problem? Might be because I've got the 2.0.50 firmware...