How to re-hack your player

[lite]

What im guessing how they do it is that they originally put in a real 4gb chip and format the player , then they remote that chip ( only temporyay , not even solderd prob ) and put in the lower chip , without even formatting it , like you see on the " how to upgrade your memory" guides , you must re-format your player before you are able to see the actaul memory size.

But then what about the players with supposed 60gb chips in them that are actualy 1 gb ??...
Well not too sure , but that would be one way to re-hack your player ,
BUT dont even try it as you wouldnt want to muck up your player.

[_Odyssey]

Thats an awful lot of mucking about to hack a player. I guess though theoretically it might work.
But I'm sure that they would use a program that can modify the original Master Boot Record of the 'disk' to show a larger size.
In my experience as a Educational ITC Co-ordinator i occasionally come across hard drives that refuse to run properly. An example would be when your computer crashes or freezes and you hit 'reset'. Upon startup scandisk will run and during the process, it reports "Your MBR has become corrupted and reports an incorrect disk size. Scandisk will now repair your MBR to reflect your disks true capacity" or something similar to that.
Has anyone seen that? .. mostly with Windows 95, 98, 98se and ME. Although I haven't seen that error for quite some time since Win XP became a standard operating environment.

[lddrizzt1]

They use a disk compression program, like we used to use on the older Windows formats.
The problem is that our music and videos are already compressed and use actual disk space when loaded on these players.
If you loaded it up with BMP pics then the compression would actually work as they can be compressed more.
For example, take a couple of mp3s and zip them up, take the same amount (size wise) of BMPs and zip them up. You will see that the BMP zip file is much smaller than the mp3 zip file.
When you "unhack" your player you remove this compression and use the true disk space.

[Kinkell]

No, it's nothing that fancy, it's just about changing the parameters of the internal tables that describe the layout therefore apparent size of the removable disc.
A friend of mine bought what was advertised as a 4GB player off eBay, files and directory corrupted after more than 960Megabytes was stored.
Re-partitioning / re-formatting confirmed it was really 1Gigabyte.
The eBay seller sent the tool that would 'fix' in fact re-hack the player - it's a slightly customised version of the standard 'MP3 Player Disc Manager'.
How it worked in this case was - plug in the player, start the Disc Manager, click the Partition tab, press the right arrow once to get 1MB size for the encrypted partition, and after partitioning the result is a single 4Gigabyte partition again. Still only holds just under 1Gygabyte of data before the files write over already used space.
Again it's a confirmation that the scam is a deliberate and cynical way of parting people from more money than they would otherwise pay.
Even Uxcell get caught by their suppliers sometimes - the 2GB Osmium I bought was actually 256Megabytes. Uxcell replaced it with a genuine 2Gigabyte Osmuim - it now works just fine.

[lite]

Can i have a copy of that modified version of the mp4 utilities , i wanna see how it works , maby make one of my old mp4 players into 60 gb lol pfft , may aswell , its just collecting dust so it would be a cool thing to show off , no-one at school would know how it worked.

[admin]

I am now going to lock this topic.

The main aim of this site it to support users with problems with their MP3/MP4 players. Players that have been hacked always causes problems and errors.

We don't the promote people who deceive buyers by selling hacked players so having a topic like this asking how to 'hack' your player is a direct contradiction to this site.