He is selling under the ebay name bestmp4 now!.

How did you find out? What is the link between lcdguard and bestmp4?

Re: hacked "4, 8Gb" player
 

Bravo!!!, Good on you mates !!! May I say, thank you all;

For verifying what I initally found in doing a 'lil research before buying my first nanoclone from China (ebay) in May 06.

It seems my initial hypothesis was correct, and that there are many sellers who have hacked 'Chipods' ( but probably don't know it).

I mean that the sellers don't know as much as we all all know, which is that the manufacturer has duped them into thinking they are selling an 8 Gig or 4 Gig player. Most sellers have no clue that 2GB is the max currently available in a flash player. Please, please do NOT buy 4, or 8 Gig players as they do NOT exist!!!!
Please read my original post, and if necessary send a copy of it to your seller.
Maybe he will forward it on to his supplier, and if enough of us do this, all of this madness will stop!!!!! CAVEAT EMPTOR! (buyer beware).

Good luck all.....

Iridium

OKI

Which formating tool should I use if I have a coned mp4 player ????

it says 4 gb when I use windows soo...

and the software that came whit it(downloaded as well) wont format it ??

lekie

Re: hacked "4, 8Gb" player
 

:lol: [color=#][/color]I have found that corruption can occur through the sync function of Windows Media Player. The MP3 player has a limit in the number of files in folders and the number of folders. I found a lot of MP3s were corrupt after doing a sync operation. These MP3s had played fine before on the MP3 player. I could not delete the corrupt files. The player had to be reformated.

I can only format my Wilson Nano clone with Windows Me for some reason I am not sure of. It could be Windows XP will not allow less than fat32.
I am able to format and able the check the device as a disk using Windows Me full format and it gives me 3.99 gb useable space.

I have created folders in the root directory of the Mp3 player for Video, Artist, Oldies, etc. In these folders are subfolders. For example under Artist I have a serperate folder for each artist. I then transfer each album of that artist to theArtist's folder. I rip the CD with Windows Media player and use it to update the CD information. This way I get the album art in the folder with song title, genre etc.

When I transfer to the Nano clone, I only use the copy and past method. I copy and paste the whole album folder from Media player to the MP3 player.

In order to see the folders when using the player, I select local folders and keep going back until I see root or the subcatagories of root. I keep making my selections with the M button until I reach the folder with the songs and then use the play key.

I am telling you all this because it is very easy to get format errors with files and that they can be avoided and are not necessarily a memory problem. Sending over 99 songs at a time the the MP3 player is asking for trouble. It does work sometimes.

But have you played all songs? Everybody with a hacked 2gig sold as 4gig can put 4 gig (lill less) on their players, but half won't play, because they are not there, just indexed as being there, that's the hack.
Use the tools on this forum to do a real format, you will end up with 2 gig.
As long as stores like uxcell.com do not sell 4 gig nano-clones, there are no 4 gig nano-clones.

This is what I've had written about earlier. The old HD proggies would hide the real cylinder values and would let you to write to the factory reserved sectors of the drive what is reserved for recovery only in case you have a bad sector.This way constantly moves data back and forth but would crash soon as it reaches the logical limit of the given platter.
Similar trick here.Reserve about 1M of protected space and use a spoof to map out the rest of the memoryblocks.
Windows is a stupid operating system it's easy to fool.
It's still operating on the arcane x86 pc architecture what supposed to be dead and buried since the late seventies.
This is just shows the inadequacies of men.
Human nature never likes things to change but it must.
Because of this stupid safezone what ppl need usually, is the very couse of suffering we must endure.
Not just technical but social in nature.
anyhow...I'm off subject already..lol

i buy mp4 player 4GB .. real 1GB this is imposible ?

my chip is K9K8G08U0A samsung with firmware 3.5.37 thereby arrive . and this is 1 GB????????? :( ???

Yep, you are scammed. go complain to the seller, demand refund, leave him bad feedback, complain @ paypal if you used it, and @ ebay. The full works!
http://www.google.com/search?lr=&ie=...8&q=K9K8G08U0A