Need help with my actual chiPod

[buaman22]

So my parents go to china and adopt my little sister and bring back 4 iPod nano knock off's and I (being the computer geek of the family) have to get them in working order to give to my 2 computer illiterate cousins and my mom.

They're very odd little players, I can sync it with windows media player, but it won't play the songs. I can put folders of music on there but it won't play anything but the two Gwen Stefani albums I put on there (both are ripped directly from the CD which might have something to do with it) and 1 mp3 file I put on there, but after I skip past the first song it'll play for a few seconds then say "File corrupt" and restart. It says it's 4 gig and so far I'm believing it.

I don't know if the firmware that comes on these is bad (it doesn't seem awfully well put together) but it'd be serviceable enough if I could get it to play something other than Gwen Stefani.

If you need any specific information on the type of player, I can post a pic.

I'd appreciate any help or advice you could give me.

[lattesurf]

buaman22 , looks like the players are memory-hacked. i'll suggest to format the players with MP3 Utilities Disk Tools, guide here http://www.mympxplayer.org/how-to-re...ck-vt2400.html

Prolong file corruption and player restarts like you are experiencing would generally end up with firmware corruption, and disable the player.

Try the format first and see if the other problems are solved.

[buaman22]

could you explain the term 'memory hacked', I don't want to be a total newb, but what is it and why do they do it?

[booboo773]

Hi, a memory hack is something that scammers do to players to make it look like they have more memory than they actually do. The hack tricks the computer into reading the false memory 4gb, 8gb, etc. It shows that you are loading that much worth or music or videos onto the player. What it is really doing is writing partial or ghost files to it and then when you try to play them, you will have format errors, freezing, and restarts. This will continue to happen until the hack is removed.

Follow the link lattesurf posted and follow the instructions to determine the real memory of the players.

Also, whatever you do, do NOT update the firmware. You will brick (kill) your player and then you will have to find the correct firmware to get it running again.

Hope this helps.

[booboo773]

Forgot to add that memory hacks are a very common scam, especially on eBay. All the chipods listed as 8gbs on there are hacked and most of the 4gb players too.

[buaman22]

Very helpful so far (I'm on dial up so DL's are taking forever).

It's weird, this chiPod is actually Chinese, not some internet scam, (I don't know how many of those you actually get), they gott'm for about 20 US dollars apiece so even if it's only a 2 gig, I think we came out ok, esp. since it'll play videos and a whole host of other things

[booboo773]

Yeah, China is where most of the hacked players originate from. Hopefully yours will be at least a 2gb. My 4 turned out to be 1gb and one I got for my nephew turned out to be 512mb. :evil:

The players themselves turned out to be pretty decent once the memory hacks were removed. Both play videos pretty nice for the price I paid. 8)

What size headphone jack is on your players? If it's a 2.5mm you might want to purchase a 2.5 to 3.5mm adapter off eBay.

[buaman22]

yeah, i just got off work and I'm going to work on'm now, the head phone jack works with normal head phones so now the question is just how much memories on them.

[buaman22]

Ok, I just did it and it says that it is 108 MB's....I'm gonna do surgery on it and check the serial number, but I certainly hope I did something wrong

[buaman22]

nope, looked up the serial number, it's a 128mb chip, damn chinese