hacked "4, 8Gb" player

[wyldemusick]

Another one caught, this time with a 2GB player hacked to look like a 4GB, purchased from power_player88 on eBay. I notice that the vendor is getting some negatives due to hacked flash drives and the like, but much is due to odd shipping issues -- many of his shipments seem to get delayed, which was acknowledged with a printed slip inside the player box and an "additional gift" -- which was a pink fish-shaped thing that I think is a cable organizer of some kind. Very strange.

The player is an ME2 badged nanoclone with a 1.8" screen, and the price, shipping thrown in, was $38.85 or so after conversion from Australian (the vendor lists in a variety of currencies, and is honest about it shipping from HK.)

I discovered it was a hack job pretty well immediately -- converted a handful of videos and threw them on the unit, then added some audiobooks, and then went to add some music...and got the dreaded format error, followed by trashed directory entries and undeletable files. Researching this brought me here, and applying the standard tools in the standard way removed the hack and left me with a 2GB unit.

While this is annoying and frustrating, I didn't get burned as badly as some. Even so I left negative feedback and opened a dispute in PayPal.

[msal2907]

Listen everyone...Before you all go off and leave negative feedback to EBay sellers, Please read this about me. I was one of the people who were selling hacked MP4 Players on EBay. The differance is that I didnt know they were hacked. As soon as I found out that these were hacked players I removed my ads on ebay and I am now involved with the FBI and The N.C. Atty. Generals Office to stop the company that is selling these players to people like me. There are several companys that are selling these players right here in the USA. The websites are as follows:

http://www.thecomputercityinc.com/

http://www.deals-directinc.com/

http://www.superdealsco.com/

I have found hundreds of people that have been scammed by this company. These 3 websites are all run by a fraud company called Deals Direct Inc. They have a business account in N.C.

If any one you know has purchased from these Companys and been screwed by them it is imparitive that you submit a complaint at www.ic3.gov This is the website that the FBI is using to compile data aginst these companies. I would also ask that anyone who wants to fight to get there money back to please send me any information they can about how they were ripped off by these people. I assure you that I will not post any personal information you send to me on any wedsite. I will need you Name address and Phone Number & the amount that they ripped you off. The information that I am requesting is for the North Carolina Atty. General. I am trying to get as many people to give to them so they can try to get our money back. I have found the bank that they are using and I have already forwarded this information to the FBI. I tried to get there bank information however the bank would not give it to me. I have there account number and I know that the bank has there real name and address and phone number. If I can get a larger number of people to work with me I know that the FBI and the Atty. General in North Carolina will do somthing about this and help us all to get our money back. Please do not always place the fault on the EBay Seller. As in my case I didn't know what I was getting into until it was too late. Please forward this message to as many People that you can...You can email me at msal2907@yahoo.com

[thecrip07]

Dont ever worry about hacked mp4 players as long as you are buying off of ebay site.

[dextersj]

hi guys,
do you know if they also are selling hacked 8gb usb sticks and how you can find out if they are hacked?
thnx

[unsal]

Originally Posted by dextersj";p=&quot

hi guys,
do you know if they also are selling hacked 8gb usb sticks and how you can find out if they are hacked?
thnx

Dexter,
Most probably they are hacked (I got one). Copy many files into, then copy back to computer, check if you can open them. Controller chip producer give out a software to set the size. If you want you can set size to 100000 MB.

[MPxIRAQ]

well , i faced this problem B4 when i bought about 200 MP3 players from the source by trading office , however < i discovered the problem when my costomers get it back to me , but i changed them all & paid 6 $ for each one , 1.5 $ for (both shipping & tax) & three months of delay
IT WAS BIG LOST
it`s display " File Error " when play the last files who is over 130 MB
you can`t play the last files on PC by Windows Medial Player from the MP3 directly & tell you unsupported media format

[admin]

Hi MPxIRAQ,

It's unfortunate that this has happened to you. It's hard to tell if you are going to get hacked players or not isn't it? Even if you have good samples, they can still scam you with hacked players when you make a real order.

Can you contact the seller and discuss what they can do about it to compensate you?

[MPxIRAQ]

well
first i didn`t bought them by myself dirctly, i did that by broker , when he inform me about the price (12.5$ 2GB MP3 with FM), it was enticing price, they scam both me & the broker too
indeed , they won`t give you a real compensate just in 2 cases:
unless you pay additional coast for the players that has orginal memory chips ( & i did that).

the quality had been proved in the purchase menu in legal form ( 4 me it wasn`t & that was the problem)

[neverhood]

Hi Experts,

could somebody tell, what kind of mp4 player is it:

iPod Nano 8GB

Firmware info:
LG MP3 player
DX91008
CM70038
2008/01/28
ACT_V9.1.52

If I try to copy files and directories to this player, after some directory, most of directories are empty or lots of directories contain same files. How can I solve this problem, if possible?
Thanks for your support!
Peter

[action@7515]

@ neverhood
It sounds your player is hacked. Often 8 GB in advertisement, in reality 2 GB.
The Firmware you have on your player is NEW. Try to copy all data on your player untill it is full. After that copy the data back on your pc. Look how much data is now on your pc. There is a good tool out there its name is "HDTUNE" look with google.